The Living from the Dead : Disaffirming Biopolitics / / Stuart J. Murray

• Autore: Murray Stuart <1967->
• Pubblicazione: University Park, PA : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Biopolitics; Rhetoric
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Living from the Dead
• ISBN: 0-271-09361-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629594803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.