Clough / Willse Beyond Biopolitics

Essays on the Governance of Life and Death
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9423-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on the techniques of governance and economy that are used to organize populations around questions of life and death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clough, Patricia Ticineto

Willse, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death / Patricia Ticento Clough and Craig Willse 1

Part I. Unexceptional Control: Governance, Race, and Population

1. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers / Brian Massumi 19

2. Human Security/National Security: Gender Branding and Population Racism / Patricia Ticento Clough and Craig Willse 46

3. "The Turban is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling / Jasbir Puar 65

4. Strict Scrutiny: The Tragedy of Constitutional Law / Sora Y. Han 106

Part II. Preemption: Death and Life-Itself

5. Necrologies; or, the Death of the Body Politic / Eugene Thacker 139

6. Mnemonic Control / Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman 163

7. Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman 177

Part III. Transforming Value: The Measure of Life Capacities

8. Strange Circulations / Ann S. Anagnost 213

9. Necropolitical Surveillance: Immigrants from Turkey in Germany / Çagatay Topal 238

10. From the Race War to the War on Terror / Randy Martin 258

Part IV. Technological Investments: Temporality, Media, and Methodologies

11. "Seeing" Spectral Agencies: An Analysis of Lin+Lam and Unidentified Vietnam / Una Chung 277

12. Here We Accrete Durations: Toward a Practice of Intervals in the Perceptual Mode of Power / Amit S. Rai 306

13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe / May Joseph 332

14. Blackness and Governance / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney 351

Bibliography 363

Contributors 381

Index 385

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Ticineto Clough is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the editor of The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, also published by Duke University Press.Craig Willse has a doctorate in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.