Biopolitics of Punishment

Derrida and Foucault

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvEge Selin Islekel,Rick Elmore,Ege Selin Islekel

499 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Inbunden

1 649 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

This volume marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault regarding argumentative methods and their political implications. The essays chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, and power—an untapped point of departure from which we might continue to read the convergence and divergence of their work. What possibilities for political resistance might this dialogue uncover? And how might they relate to contemporary political crises?With the resurgence of fascism and authoritarianism across the globe, the rise of white supremacist and xenophobic violence, and the continued brutality of state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killings by police, border patrols, and ordinary citizens, there is a pressing need to critically analyze our political present. These essays bring to bear the critical force of Derrida's and Foucault's biopolitical thought to practices of mass incarceration, the death penalty, life without parole, immigration and detention, racism and police violence, transphobia, human and animal relations, and the legacies of colonization. At the heart of their biopolitics, the volume shows, lies the desire to deconstruct and resist in the name of a future that is more just and less policed. It is this impulse that makes reading their work together, at this moment, both crucial and worthwhile.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-04-15
Mått150 x 226 x 18 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagNorthwestern University Press
ISBN9780810144873

Tillhör följande kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

AcknowledgmentsEditors’ IntroductionPart I. Punishment and Sacrifice: Death Penalty and the Penitentiary1. Biopolitics and the Politics of Sacrifice: Derrida on Life, Life Death, and the Death Penalty - Michael Naas2. Posthuman and Postanimal Futures or the Possibilities of a Deconstructive Biopolitics - Rick Elmore3. Blood on Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands - Brad Elliott Stone4. Foucault and the Biopolitics of the Penitentiary: Death in/by Incarceration - Ege Selin IslekelPart II. Taking Lives, Letting Die: Biopolitics of Race5. Making Die or Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee Crisis - Kelly Oliver6. Counting Heads: Reason, The Human, and Capital Punishment(s) - MarÍa de la Cruz Salvador LÓpez7. From the Will to Race to Hygienic Feminism: Race, State, Habit - Tamsin KimotoPart III. Resistance in Action8. Fearless Lives: Parrhesia in a Biopolitical Frame - Sarah Hansen9. The Silent Exception: Hunger Striking and Lip-Sewing - Banu Bargu10. The Etymology of Unity - Janos Toevs

“Is it possible to theorize a deconstructive biopolitics? The political stakes of the Foucault-Derrida debate have never been clearer or more urgent. This spectacular group of writers opens a vital conversation about border zones and hunger strikes; detention centers and supermax prisons; Blackness, criminality, and necropolitics. Speaking from the heart of a prison society, it teaches us how to summon a world without prisons. A must-read book.” —Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault’s Strange Eros