LEADER 05181nam 22006735 450 001 9910816975703321 005 20220317184154.0 010 $a0-8232-8611-8 010 $a0-8232-8350-X 010 $a0-8232-8351-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823283514 035 $a(CKB)4100000007521308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5639405 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146412 035 $a(OCoLC)1083098700 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72767 035 $a(DE-B1597)554955 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823283514 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007521308 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKilling times $ethe temporal technology of the death penalty /$fDavid Wills 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2019. 311 0 $a0-8232-8352-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life --$t2. The Time of the Trap Door --$t3. The Future Anterior of Blood --$t4. Spirit Wind --$t5. Drone Penalty --$t6 Lam Time --$tAppendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aKilling Times begins with the deceptively simple observation?made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic?that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time that is already attached to human existence. Time, Wills argues, functions for us in general as a prosthetic technology, but the application of the death penalty represents a new level of prosthetic intervention into what constitutes the human. Killing Times traces the logic of the death penalty across a range of sites. Starting with the legal cases whereby American courts have struggled to articulate what methods of execution constitute ?cruel and unusual punishment,? Wills goes on to show the ways that technologies of death have themselves evolved in conjunction with ideas of cruelty and instantaneity, from the development of the guillotine and the trap door for hanging, through the firing squad and the electric chair, through today?s controversies surrounding lethal injection. Responding to the legal system?s repeated recourse to storytelling?prosecutors? and politicians? endless recounting of the horrors of crimes?Wills gives a careful eye to the narrative, even fictive spaces that surround crime and punishment. Many of the controversies surrounding capital punishment, Wills argues, revolve around the complex temporality of the death penalty: how its instant works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time; how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated by a number of different discourses. By pinpointing the temporal technology that marks the death penalty, Wills is able to show capital punishment?s expansive reach, tracing the ways it has come to govern not only executions within the judicial system, but also the opposed but linked categories of the suicide bombing and drone warfare. In discussing the temporal technology of death, Wills elaborates the workings both of the terrorist who produces a simultaneity of crime and ?punishment? that bypasses judicial process, and of the security state, in whose remote-control killings the time-space coordinates of ?justice? are compressed and at the same time disappear into the black hole of secrecy. Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills?s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes the question of capital punishment beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aMortality$xPhilosophy 610 $a8th amendment. 610 $aTechnology. 610 $adeath penalty. 610 $adrone. 610 $aguillotine. 610 $amortality. 610 $aprosthesis. 610 $asuicide bomber. 610 $atemporality. 615 0$aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aMortality$xPhilosophy. 676 $a364.66 676 $a364.660284 700 $aWills$b David$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01634938 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816975703321 996 $aKilling times$93975409 997 $aUNINA