Deleuze and law
Subtitle: forensic futures
By: edited By Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Patrick Hanafin.
Contributors: Braidotti, Rosi.; Colebrook, Claire.; Hanafin, Patrick.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230210172
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995; Law -- Philosophy
Description: "Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The central concept, through which the embodiment of the subject will be examined will be that of 'bio-power'. Articulated by Michel Foucault, but brought to attention more recently in the work of Giorgio Agamben, this concept recognises that the relation between life and law is both historical and necessary: the law must operate on bodies but can only do so by establishing a border between the body of the polity, and the mere life excepted from political concern. The contemporary advent of bio-politics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body or organism - rather than the self - becomes the object of political management. The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life. The contributors explore the forensic shift in contemporary social theory and cultural sensibility from a number of perspectives."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Deleuze and law : forensic futures / Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin; title: Legal theory after Deleuze / Claire Colebrook; title: The time of law : evolution in Holmes and Bergson / Alexandre Lefebvre; title: Rights of passage : law and the biopolitics of dying / Patrick Hanafin; title: The Terri Schiavo case : biopolitics, biopower, and privacy as singularity / John Protevi; title: Vitalistic feminethics : materiality, mediation and the end of necrophilosophy / Patricia MacCormack; title: Locating Deleuze's eco-philosophy between bio/Zoe-power and necro-politics /Rosi Braidotti; title: Is there life in cybernetics? : designing a post-humanist bioethics / Joanna Zylinska; title: The silent scream; title: Agamben, Deleuze and the politics of the unborn / Melinda Cooper; title: Points of departure : the culture of US airport screening / Lisa Parks; title: The spectacle of war : security, legitimacy and profit post-9/11 / Ian Buchanan and Laura Guillaume.