Plastic Sovereignties: Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781474417976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str.

Arne De Boever

Opis

Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.

Spis treści

Prologue: The Future of Sovereignty; Part One: Aesthetics: Chapter One: An Experiment with Language; Chapter Two: The Divine Violence of Storytelling; Chapter Three: From Translatability to Politics; Part Two: Economy: Chapter Four: The Proletariat’s Bare Life; Chapter Five: Technology, Ontology, Politics; Chapter Six: The Work of Inoperativity; Part Three: Politics: Chapter Seven: Agamben in America; Chapter Eight: Sovereignty’s Glitches; Chapter Nine: Formations of Infancy.