03515nam 2200541 450 991062959480332120240116064043.00-271-09361-710.1515/9780271093611(MiAaPQ)EBC30253590(Au-PeEL)EBL30253590(CKB)25430683500041(DE-B1597)644589(DE-B1597)9780271093611(NjHacI)9925430683500041(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94656(EXLCZ)992543068350004120240116d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Living from the Dead Disaffirming Biopolitics /Stuart J. MurrayFirst edition.University Park, PA :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (219 pages)RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric SeriesIncludes index.Print version: Murray, Stuart J. The Living from the Dead University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press,c2022 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Cost of Living: On Pandemic Politics and Protests -- 2 Speech Begins After -- 3 Necessaries of Life: On Law, Medicine, and the Time of a Life -- 4 Racism’s Digital Dominion: On Hate Speech and Remediating Racist Tropes -- Refrain: And Who by His Own Hand? -- Notes -- IndexIn 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.RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.BiopoliticsRhetoricBiopolitics.Rhetoric.320.01Murray Stuart1967-1124058MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910629594803321The Living from the Dead3876596UNINA