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The Living from the Dead - Disaffirming Biopolitics (Hardcover)
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The Living from the Dead - Disaffirming Biopolitics (Hardcover)
Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we
reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in
sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a
necessity of life? Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only
through an analysis of those whom society has "let die," Stuart J.
Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to
uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which
biopower works. These case studies include the concept of
"sacrifice" in the "war" against COVID-19, where emergent cultures
of pandemic "resistance" are explored alongside suicide bombings
and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013;
legal cases involving "preventable" and "untimely" childhood
deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and
Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a
disabled Black man. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to
biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of "making live" and "letting
die." His counter to this fact is a critical stance of
disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life
itself. A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living
from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and
control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and
scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory.
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