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OverviewThis volume marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault regarding argumentative methods and their political implications. The essays chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers 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. What possibilities for political resistance might this dialogue uncover? And how might they relate to contemporary political crises? With the resurgence of fascism and authoritarianism across the globe, the rise of white supremacist and xenophobic violence, and the continued brutality of state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killings by police, border patrols, and ordinary citizens, there is a pressing need to critically analyze our political present. These essays bring to bear the critical force of Derrida's and Foucault's biopolitical thought to practices of mass incarceration, the death penalty, life without parole, immigration and detention, racism and police violence, transphobia, human and animal relations, and the legacies of colonization. At the heart of their biopolitics, the volume shows, lies the desire to deconstruct and resist in the name of a future that is more just and less policed. It is this impulse that makes reading their work together, at this moment, both crucial and worthwhile. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rick Elmore , Ege Selin Islekel , Banu Bargu , Sarah HansenPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.384kg ISBN: 9780810144873ISBN 10: 0810144875 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 30 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table 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 5. 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 ToevsReviewsIs 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 Eros “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 Eros Author InformationRick Elmore is an associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University. Ege Selin Islekel is an assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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