Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781138789487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 318 str.

S. E. Wilmer; Audron Ukauskait

Opis

The topic of biopolitics is a timely one, and it has become increasingly important for scholars to reconsider how life is objectified, mobilized, and otherwise bound up in politics. This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects all aspects of 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. Written by leading experts in the field, the book's chapters investigate resistance across a wide range of areas: politics and biophilosophy, technology and vitalism, creativity and bioethics, and performance. Resisting Biopolitics is an important intervention in contemporary biopolitical theory, looking towards the future of this interdisciplinary field.

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