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Book SynopsisCharts the under-theorized dialogue between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault on questions of life, death, punishment, and power - an untapped point of departure from which we might continue to read the convergence and divergence of their work.
Trade Review“Is it possible to theorize a deconstructive biopolitics? The political stakes of the Foucault-Derrida debate have never been clearer or more urgent. This spectacular group of writers opens a vital conversation about border zones and hunger strikes; detention centers and supermax prisons; Blackness, criminality, and necropolitics. Speaking from the heart of a prison society, it teaches us how to summon a world without prisons. A must-read book.” —Lynne Huffer, author of
Foucault’s Strange ErosTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
Part I. Punishment and Sacrifice: Death Penalty and the Penitentiary
1. Biopolitics and the Politics of Sacrifice: Derrida on Life, Life Death, and the Death Penalty - Michael Naas
2. Posthuman and Postanimal Futures or the Possibilities of a Deconstructive Biopolitics - Rick Elmore
3. Blood on Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands - Brad Elliott Stone
4. Foucault and the Biopolitics of the Penitentiary: Death in/by Incarceration - Ege Selin Islekel
Part II. Taking Lives, Letting Die: Biopolitics of Race
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Making Die or
Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee Crisis - Kelly Oliver
6. Counting Heads: Reason, The Human, and Capital Punishment(s) - MarÍa de la Cruz Salvador LÓpez
7. From the Will to Race to Hygienic Feminism: Race, State, Habit - Tamsin Kimoto
Part III. Resistance in Action
8. Fearless Lives: Parrhesia in a Biopolitical Frame - Sarah Hansen
9. The Silent Exception: Hunger Striking and Lip-Sewing - Banu Bargu
10. The Etymology of Unity - Janos Toevs
