Description
Book SynopsisHow biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
Trade Review"Broadening biopower beyond its Nazi encampments in order to build a critique of liberalism, Timothy C. Campbell argues that modern politics captures life through invasive technologies of communication and consumption that promise protection from mortality, disability, boredom, and loneliness. Campbell links mass media and bioengineering to the birth of a global petty bourgeoisie defined by a terrifying lack of distance and the relentless dismantling of community. This compelling, powerfully argued book should be read by anyone interested in the futures of collective life in the age of smart bombs and cloud computing." —Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
Table of ContentsContents
Preface: Bíos between Thanatos and Technē
1. Divisions of the Proper: Heidegger, Technology, and the Biopolitical
2. The Dispositifs of Thanatopolitics: Improper Writing and Life
3. Barely Breathing: Sloterdijk’s Immunitary Biopolitics
4. Practicing Bíos: Attention and Play as Technē
Notes
Index
