Resisting Biopolitics : Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies.
Wilmer, S. E.
Resisting Biopolitics : Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (319 pages) - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series . - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Politics, Biopolitics, and Biophilosophy -- 1 From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power -- 2 Posthuman Affirmative Politics -- 3 Rethinking Biopolitics: The New Materialism and the Political Economy of Life -- 4 From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy, or the Vanishing Subject of Biopolitics -- Part II Life, Bioethics, and Bioart -- 5 Chimerism and Immunitas: The Emergence of a Posthumanist Biophilosophy -- 6 Resisting Biopolitics, Resisting Freedom: Prenatal Testing and Choice -- 7 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century -- 8 The Biopolitics of Life Removed from Context: Neolifism -- Part III Surveillance and Digital Technologies -- 9 Questioned by Machines: A Cultural Perspective on Counter-Terrorism and Lie Detection in Security Zones -- 10 Data Doubles and the Specters of Performance in the Bit Parts of Surveillance -- 11 Digital Biopolitics: The Image of Life -- 12 The Object of Desire of the Machine and the Biopolitics of the Posthuman -- Part IV Societies of Control -- 13 At the Systemic Edge: Expulsions -- 14 From the "Bio" to the "Necro": The Human at the Border -- 15 Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland's Unwed Mothers -- 16 Israel/Palestine: State of Exception and Acts of Resistance -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics. In addition to tracing the evolving philosophical discourse around biopolitics, this collection researches and explores certain modes of resistance against biopolitical control.
9781317655848
Biopolitics.
Electronic books.
JA80 -- .R43 2016eb
320.01
Resisting Biopolitics : Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (319 pages) - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series . - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Politics, Biopolitics, and Biophilosophy -- 1 From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power -- 2 Posthuman Affirmative Politics -- 3 Rethinking Biopolitics: The New Materialism and the Political Economy of Life -- 4 From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy, or the Vanishing Subject of Biopolitics -- Part II Life, Bioethics, and Bioart -- 5 Chimerism and Immunitas: The Emergence of a Posthumanist Biophilosophy -- 6 Resisting Biopolitics, Resisting Freedom: Prenatal Testing and Choice -- 7 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century -- 8 The Biopolitics of Life Removed from Context: Neolifism -- Part III Surveillance and Digital Technologies -- 9 Questioned by Machines: A Cultural Perspective on Counter-Terrorism and Lie Detection in Security Zones -- 10 Data Doubles and the Specters of Performance in the Bit Parts of Surveillance -- 11 Digital Biopolitics: The Image of Life -- 12 The Object of Desire of the Machine and the Biopolitics of the Posthuman -- Part IV Societies of Control -- 13 At the Systemic Edge: Expulsions -- 14 From the "Bio" to the "Necro": The Human at the Border -- 15 Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland's Unwed Mothers -- 16 Israel/Palestine: State of Exception and Acts of Resistance -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics. In addition to tracing the evolving philosophical discourse around biopolitics, this collection researches and explores certain modes of resistance against biopolitical control.
9781317655848
Biopolitics.
Electronic books.
JA80 -- .R43 2016eb
320.01