Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on key legal cases (such as the Terri Schiavo case in the US), political events (such as the post 9/11 internment camp) and new cultural phenomena.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Law and Deleuze: Forensic Futures; R.Braidotti , C.Colebrook & P.Hanafin Legal Theory After Deleuze; C.Colebrook The Time of Law: Evolution in Holmes and Bergson; A.Lefebvre Rights of Passage: Law and the Biopolitics of Dying; P.Hanafin The Terri Schiavo Case: Biopolitics, Biopower, and Privacy as Singularity; J.Protevi Vitalistic Feminethics: Materiality, Mediation and the End of Necrophilosophy; P.Maccormack Locating Deleuze's Eco-Philosophy: Between Bio/Zoe Power and Necro-Politics; R.Braidotti Is There Life in Cybernetics? Designing a Post-Humanist Bioethics; J.Zylinska The Silent Scream – Agamben, Deleuze and the Politics of the Unborn; M.Cooper Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening; L.Parks The Spectacle of War: Security, Legitimacy, and Profit Post-9/11; I.Buchanan & L.Guillaume Index

IAN BUCHANAN is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK MELINDA COOPER is Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney, Australia LAURA GUILLAUME, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK ALEXANDRE LEFEBVRE is Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada PATRICIA MACCORMACK is Senior Lecturer, Communication and Film, Anglia Ruskin University, UK LISA PARKS is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara, USA JOHN PROTEVI is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA JOANNA ZYLINSKA is Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London, UK