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Book SynopsisOffers ways to conceptualize biopolitics as the ground for today's reformulation of governance
Trade Review“Again, this is a highly recommended work, and will challenge readers to think beyond the set categories of politics and ways in which biopolitics can provide insights, and subsequently take further our research on power and the order of the neoliberal state.” - Rob Imre,
Somatechnics“
Beyond Biopolitics marks a significant contribution to the flourishing field of biopolitics. Clough and Willse have assembled a collection that speaks from the heart of a US radical tradition.” - Lorna Weir,
Canadian Journal of Sociology“
Beyond Biopolitics explores new forms of life emerging while modern strategies for the governance of populations mutate and metastasize into strange new configurations—biosecurity, biocapital, thanato-politics, speculation, risk, and violence. The contributors document the myriad ways that the old racisms and colonial power relations are re-energized by state and market tactics to govern terrorism, environmental catastrophe, and the global flows of information, people, genes, and viruses. In its prescient identification of these dynamics,
Beyond Biopolitics gives us a map of life’s near-future.”—
Catherine Waldby, co-author of
Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism“These essays by some of today’s most exciting and innovative theorists interrogate the connection between biopower and governance from an extraordinarily wide range of perspectives. Together they give us a complex and multifaceted view on the contemporary nature and functioning of power.”—
Michael Hardt, co-author of
CommonwealthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
