William Watkin

Bioviolence (eBook, PDF)

How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion, surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news, terrorism and war. It argues that the use of bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000386806
• Artikelnr.: 61916162

Autorenporträt

William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature at Brunel University, London. He is the author of numerous books including In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde, On Mourning, The Literary Agamben and Agamben and Indifference. His most recent work Badiou and Indifferent Being is the first of two volumes looking at Badiou's Being and Event project. The second, Badiou and Communicable Worlds, came out in 2020. He is currently working on a study of a philosophy of indifference called, simply, Indifference, and a follow-up to Bioviolence called Anti-Social Media: How Big Tech Makes Us Do What It Wants.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and the Abolition of
Violence Part One: Regulatory Bioviolence Chapter 1 - Aylan Kurdi and the
Index of Responsibility Chapter 2 - The Construction of Life:
Specie-fication, Race War and Immunitas Chapter 3 - Rise of the
Paedophobes! Or the Coercive Power of Norms, Regulation, Population and
Massification in the Case of Migrant Children Chapter 4 - Death on the
Beaches: Bioviolence Defined Part Two: Humanimals and Bare life Chapter 5 -
#Harambe and the Construction of Life Chapter 6 - Humanimals and the
Abolition of Life Part Three: Decapitation and the Digital Caliphate
Chapter 7 - ISIS and the Art of Decapitation Chapter 8 - Biohistory: The
Human, The Head, The Tool, The Cut and The Tribe Part Four: The Global Camp
Chapter 9 - Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green Girls Chapter 10 - Shamima
Begum, our Femina Sacra Chapter 11 - Reading Guantanamo or Camp as Coercion
Part Five: 2020, I can't breathe Chapter 12 - George Floyd and
#BlackLivesMatter: Thoughts Chapter 13 - Herd Immunity: COVID and Coercion
Conclusion: Apologia for a Theory of Political Acéphalism