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Biopolitics of Security - A political analytic of finitude (Paperback, New)
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Biopolitics of Security - A political analytic of finitude (Paperback, New)
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
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Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays
integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern
political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and
security are differently problematised by changing accounts of
time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century,
the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed
by a novel account of time and human finitude, which it calls
'factical finitude'. The correlate of factical finitude is the
infinite, and the book explains how the problematisation of
politics and security became that of securing the infinite
government of finite things. It then explains how concrete
political form was given to factical finitude by a combination of
geopolitics and biopolitics. Modern sovereignty required the
services of biopolitics from the very beginning. The essays explain
how these politics of security arose at the same time, changed
together, and have remained closely allied ever since. In
particular, the book explains how biopolitics of security changed
in response to the molecularisation and digitalisation of Life, and
demonstrates how this has given rise to the dangers and
contradictions of 21st century security politics. This book will be
of much interest to students of political and cultural theory,
critical security studies and International Relations.
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