Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

ISBN-13: 9780367438180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

William Watkin

Opis

This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion, surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news, terrorism and war. It argues that the use of bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want.

 

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and the Abolition of Violence  Part One: Regulatory Bioviolence  Chapter 1 – Aylan Kurdi and the Index of Responsibility  Chapter 2 – The Construction of Life: Specie-fication, Race War and Immunitas  Chapter 3 – Rise of the Paedophobes! Or the Coercive Power of Norms, Regulation, Population and Massification in the Case of Migrant Children  Chapter 4 – Death on the Beaches: Bioviolence Defined  Part Two: Humanimals and Bare life  Chapter 5 – #Harambe and the Construction of Life  Chapter 6 – Humanimals and the Abolition of Life  Part Three: Decapitation and the Digital Caliphate  Chapter 7 – ISIS and the Art of Decapitation  Chapter 8 – Biohistory: The Human, The Head, The Tool, The Cut and The Tribe  Part Four: The Global Camp  Chapter 9 – Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green Girls  Chapter 10 – Shamima Begum, our Femina Sacra  Chapter 11 – Reading Guantanamo or Camp as Coercion  Part Five: 2020, I can’t breathe  Chapter 12 – George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter: Thoughts Chapter 13 – Herd Immunity: COVID and Coercion  Conclusion: Apologia for a Theory of Political Acéphalism

O autorze

William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature at Brunel University, London. He is the author of numerous books including In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde, On Mourning, The Literary Agamben and Agamben and Indifference. His most recent work Badiou and Indifferent Being is the first of two volumes looking at Badiou’s Being and Event project. The second, Badiou and Communicable Worlds, came out in 2020. He is currently working on a study of a philosophy of indifference called, simply, Indifference, and a follow-up to Bioviolence called Anti-Social Media: How Big Tech Makes Us Do What It Wants.