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Global Powers of Horror - Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces (Hardcover)
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Global Powers of Horror - Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces (Hardcover)
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Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror,
into horror's intricacies, and into their deployment on and through
human bodies and body parts. To track horror's work, what horror
decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of
the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the
focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking
at horror's production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond
humanity, the book is also about horror's own attempt at re-forming
or re-creating matter, from the perspective of post-human,
non-human, and inhuman fragmentation. Through several contemporary
instances of dismantling of human bodies and pulverization of body
parts, this book makes several interrelated theoretical
contributions. It works with contemporary post-(geo)political
figures of horror-faces of concentration camp dwellers, body parts
of victims of terror attacks, the outcome of suicide bombings,
graphic reports of beheadings, re-compositions of melted and
mingled remnants of non-human and human matter after 9/11-to
challenge regimes of terror and security that seek to forcefully
and ideologically reaffirm a biopolitics and thanatopolitics of
human life in order to anchor today's often devastating deployments
of the metaphysics of substance. Critically enabling one to see how
security and terror form a (geo)political continuum of violent
mobilization, utilization, and often destruction of human and
non-human bodies and lives, this book will be of interest to
graduates and scholars of bio politics, international relations and
security studies.
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