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Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by
examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.
Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science
Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics,
intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first
chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a
genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal
subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join
fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to
"self-cultivate". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how
fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under
the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Foucault's
biopolitics to themes of intensity and resilience, Alphin draws
largely from William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow
Crash, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, along with the film
Blade Runner to problematize notions of neoliberal resilience.
Alphin returns to biopolitics, intensity, and resilience,
connecting these themes to accelerationism as she engages with
biohacker discourses. Here she argues that a biohacker is, in part,
an intensification of the self-monitoring cyborg and
accelerationism is in the end another form of resilience.
Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is an invaluable
resource for those interested in security studies, political
sociology, biopolitics, critical IR theory, political theory,
cultural studies, and literary theory.
Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International
Relations brings together a diverse array of critical IR scholars,
political theorists, critical security studies researchers, and
critical geographers to provide a series of interventions on the
topic of death and death-making in global politics. Contrary to
most existing scholarship, this volume does not place the emphasis
on traditional sources or large-scale configurations of power/force
leading to death in IR. Instead, it details, theorizes, and
challenges more mundane, perhaps banal, and often ordinary
modalities of violence perpetrated against human lives and bodies,
and often contributing to horrific instances of death and
destruction. Concepts such as "slow death," "soft killing,"
"superfluous bodies," or "extra/ordinary" destruction/disappearance
are brought to the fore by prominent voices in these fields
alongside more junior creative thinkers to rethink the politics of
life and death in the global polity away from dominant IR or
political theory paradigms about power, force, and violence. The
volume features chapters that offer thought-provoking
reconsiderations of key concepts, theories, and practices about
death and death-making along with other chapters that seek to
challenge some of these concepts, theories, or practices in
settings that include the Palestinian territories, Brazilian
cities, displaced population flows from the Middle East, sites of
immigration policing in North America, and spaces of welfare
politics in Scandinavian states.
Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by
examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.
Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science
Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics,
intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first
chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a
genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal
subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join
fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to
"self-cultivate". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how
fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under
the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Foucault's
biopolitics to themes of intensity and resilience, Alphin draws
largely from William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow
Crash, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, along with the film
Blade Runner to problematize notions of neoliberal resilience.
Alphin returns to biopolitics, intensity, and resilience,
connecting these themes to accelerationism as she engages with
biohacker discourses. Here she argues that a biohacker is, in part,
an intensification of the self-monitoring cyborg and
accelerationism is in the end another form of resilience.
Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is an invaluable
resource for those interested in security studies, political
sociology, biopolitics, critical IR theory, political theory,
cultural studies, and literary theory.
Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International
Relations brings together a diverse array of critical IR scholars,
political theorists, critical security studies researchers, and
critical geographers to provide a series of interventions on the
topic of death and death-making in global politics. Contrary to
most existing scholarship, this volume does not place the emphasis
on traditional sources or large-scale configurations of power/force
leading to death in IR. Instead, it details, theorizes, and
challenges more mundane, perhaps banal, and often ordinary
modalities of violence perpetrated against human lives and bodies,
and often contributing to horrific instances of death and
destruction. Concepts such as "slow death," "soft killing,"
"superfluous bodies," or "extra/ordinary" destruction/disappearance
are brought to the fore by prominent voices in these fields
alongside more junior creative thinkers to rethink the politics of
life and death in the global polity away from dominant IR or
political theory paradigms about power, force, and violence. The
volume features chapters that offer thought-provoking
reconsiderations of key concepts, theories, and practices about
death and death-making along with other chapters that seek to
challenge some of these concepts, theories, or practices in
settings that include the Palestinian territories, Brazilian
cities, displaced population flows from the Middle East, sites of
immigration policing in North America, and spaces of welfare
politics in Scandinavian states.
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