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

The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics

In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility...
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Author: Stuart J. Murray
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The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics by Murray, Stuart J.

The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics

CHF 60.42
The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics by Murray, Stuart J.

The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics

CHF 60.42
Author: Stuart J. Murray
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Stuart J. Murray
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780271093406
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