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Starve and Immolate - The Politics of Human Weapons (Paperback)
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Starve and Immolate - The Politics of Human Weapons (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, 33
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Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners
in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of
high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving
together contemporary and critical political theory with political
ethnography, Banu Bargu analyzes the death fast struggle as an
exemplary though not exceptional instance of self-destructive
practices that are a consequence of, retort to, and refusal of the
increasingly biopolitical forms of sovereign power deployed around
the globe. Bargu chronicles the experiences, rituals, values,
beliefs, ideological self-representations, and contentions of the
protestors who fought cellular confinement against the background
of the history of Turkish democracy and the treatment of dissent in
a country where prisons have become sites of political
confrontation. A critical response to Michel Foucault's Discipline
and Punish, Starve and Immolate centers on new forms of struggle
that arise from the asymmetric antagonism between the state and its
contestants in the contemporary prison. Bargu ultimately positions
the weaponization of life as a bleak, violent, and ambivalent form
of insurgent politics that seeks to wrench the power of life and
death away from the modern state on corporeal grounds and in
increasingly theologized forms. Drawing attention to the
existential commitment, sacrificial morality, and militant
martyrdom that transforms these struggles into a complex amalgam of
resistance, Bargu explores the global ramifications of human
weapons' practices of resistance, their possibilities and
limitations.
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