Politics and Suicide: The Philosophy of Political Self-Destruction

ISBN-13: 9780815377535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Nicholas Michelsen

Opis

Politics and Suicide draws heavily on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined.

Spis treści

Kamikaze 1.1 State suicide 1.2 Politics, the assemblage of desire 1.3 The fascist assemblage 1.4 Revolution and annihilation 1.5 Mishima’s revolution  Self-burning  2.1 Immolāre 2.2 Death and Desire 2.3 Events and Death 2.4 Palach’s revolution Hunger-striking  3.1 Crossing the threshold 3.2 Bodily Inscription 3.3 Decoding death 3.4 Exchange 3.5 Terror and Production Terror  4.1 Human bomb 4.2 The Despot 4.3 Liberal Suicides 4.4 Terror and Liberalism 4.5 A politics from the outside Cult and Revolution  5.1 Revolutionary suicide 5.2 Jonestown 5.3 Millenarianism 5.4 Dying well 5.5 Afterword: On machines

O autorze

Nicholas Michelsen is Lecturer in International Relations Theory in the Department of War Studies at  King's College London.