Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its
complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of
authority . It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that
relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality
become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the
life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the
biopolitical, arguing that experience of life has become equated
with objectivity in contemporary culture and has thus become a
primary basis of authority. Biopolitical or experiential authority
can be generated through reference to a variety of experiences,
performances or intensities of life including creativity,
radicalism, risk-taking, experimentation, inter-relation, suffering
and proximity to death. The authority-producing capacities of
community and aesthetics are key issues, pointing to vexed
relationships between politics and policing, inventiveness and
violence.
The contributors develop their theoretical analyses through
discussion of a range of specific sites including mental-health
service user and survivor politics, biological knowledge, refugee
activism, stories of suffering, urban art, anarchism, neo-liberal
community politics and marketization. "Authority, Experience &
the Life of Power "challenges thinking on what the political is and
isn t, pushing against the all too easy equivocation of
revolutionary break and empowerment.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of
Political Power."
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