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This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique
2. Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies
3. Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium
4. Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human
5. Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror
6. Biopolitical life: the ‘war against war’ of the multitude
Epilogue
Index

The Biopolitics of the War on Terror

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719074066, 978-0719074066
      ISBN10: 0719074061

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique
      2. Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies
      3. Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium
      4. Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human
      5. Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror
      6. Biopolitical life: the ‘war against war’ of the multitude
      Epilogue
      Index

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