Deadly Biocultures
Subtitle: The Ethics of Life-Making
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781517905071
Subjects: Death, moral and ethical aspects; Life; Objectivism (philosophy)
Description: "This book project intends to serve as a course adoption book unpacking theories of biopolitical life-making and death-making, with chapters dedicated to specific objects that ostensibly affirm life (and argue for life's inextricable links to capital), but that ultimately reify a politics of death and erasure. Specific objects, such as the pink Kommen Foundation-branded handgun, the 'super user' of health care resources, and fat cells allow the authors to discuss the political junctures at which determinations of healthy and unhealthy, life and death, are made"--