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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958622103321

Autore

Debrix Francois.

Titolo

Beyond biopolitics : theory, violence, and horror in world politics / / Francois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England], : Routledge, c2012

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-64367-2

1-283-44131-4

9786613441317

0-203-80481-3

1-136-64368-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Altri autori (Persone)

BarderAlexander D

Disciplina

327.101

Soggetti

Biopolitics

Terrorism

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Political violence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-166) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : beyond biopolitics -- Agonal sovereignty : rethinking war and politics in an age of terror -- Nothing to fear but fear itself : governmentality and the reproduction of terror -- The nomos of exception and the virtuality of geopolitical space -- The horror of enmity : rethinking alterity in the age of global war -- Conclusion : facing horrific violence.

Sommario/riassunto

Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era.This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme. Debrix and Barder mobilize different concepts-horror, agonal sovereignty, the pulverization of the flesh, or the notion of an inhumanity-to-come-to



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