The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated;
this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original
commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live,
liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life,
specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being;
what the book calls 'the biohuman'. Tracking the advent of the age
of life-as-information - complex, adaptive and emergent - while
contrasting biopolitics with geopolitics, the book details how and
why the liberal way of rule wages war on the human in the cause of
instituting the biohuman. Contingent and emergent, the biohuman is
however continuously also becoming-dangerous to itself. It
therefore requires constant surveillance to anticipate the threats
it presents to its own flourishing. The book explains how, in
making life live, liberal rule finds its expression, today, in
making the biohuman live the emergency of its emergence. Thus does
liberal peace become the continuation of war by other means. Just
as the information and molecular revolutions have combined to
transform liberal military-strategic thinking so also has it
contributed to the discourse of global danger through which global
liberal governance currently legitimates the liberal way of war.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Global Horizons |
| Release date: |
February 2009 |
| First published: |
2009 |
| Authors: |
Michael Dillon
• Julian Reid
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
196 |
| Edition: |
New Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-95300-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-415-95300-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780415953009 |
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