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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961842303321

Autore

Reid Julian

Titolo

The biopolitics of the war on terror : life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies / / Julian Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006

ISBN

9781847796561

1847796567

9781781701676

1781701679

9781847793379

1847793371

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Reappraising the Political

Reappraising the political

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Social aspects - United States

Biopolitics

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique; 2 Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies; 3 Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium; 4 Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human; 5 Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror; 6 Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude; References; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are a fundamental cause of the conflict. The question of the future of humanity is posed by this war, but only in the sense that its resolution depends on our abilities to move beyond the limits of



dominant understandings of the human and.