Biotheory: Life and Death Under Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9780367416119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 274 str.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo; Peter Hitchcock

Opis

Biopolitics is one of the most influential paradigms in the human sciences and humanities today. This volume offers new ways to think of biopolitics as an explanatory model. Its contributors analyze theoretical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism.

O autorze

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center. Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the　American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal　symplokē, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.