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.
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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.
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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
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781349302819
Publisert
2009-08-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet