Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781138499010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 318 str.

S. E. Wilmer; Audrone Zukauskaite

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction Audronė Žukauskaitė and S. E. Wilmer  Part I: Politics, Biopolitics, and Biophilosophy  1. From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power Giorgio Agamben  2. Posthuman Affirmative Politics Rosi Braidotti  3. Rethinking Biopolitics: The New Materialism and the Political Economy of Life Thomas Lemke  4. From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy, or the Vanishing Subject of Biopolitics Audronė Žukauskaitė  Part II: Life, Bioethics, and Bioart 5. Chimerism and Immunitas: The Emergence of a Posthumanist Biophilosophy Margrit Shildrick  6. Resisting Biopolitics, Resisting Freedom: Prenatal Testing and Choice Catherine Mills  7. Biophilosophy for the 21^st Century Eugene Thacker  8. The Biopolitics of Life Removed from Context: Neolifism Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr  Part III: Surveillance and Digital Technologies  9. Questioned by Machines: A Cultural Perspective on Counter-Terrorism and Lie Detection in Security Zones  Mark Maguire  10. Data Doubles and the Specters of Performance in the Bit Parts of Surveillance James Harding  11. Digital Biopolitics: The Image of Life F.J. Colman  12. The Object of Desire of the Machine and the Biopolitics of the Posthuman Matthew Causey  Part IV: Societies of Control  13. At the Systemic Edge: Expulsions Saskia Sassen  14. From the "Bio" to the "Necro": The Human at the Border Andrés Fabian Henao Castro  15. Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland’s Unwed Mothers S. E. Wilmer  16. Israel/Palestine: State of Exception and Acts of Resistance Ronit Lentin