Plastic sovereignties
Subtitle: Agamben and the politics of aesthetics
By: Arne De Boever
Series: Incitements; Incitements
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780748684977; 9781474417976; 9781474422994
Subjects: Sovereignty; Philosophy; Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The future of sovereignty; title: Part I: Aesthetics. An experiment with language ; The divine violence of storytelling ; From translatability to politics; title: Part II: Economy. The proletariat's bare life ; Technology, ontology, politics ; The work of inoperativity; title: Part III: Politics. Agamben in America ; Sovereignty's glitches ; Formations of infancy.