Παρουσίαση
This double issue of New Formations addresses death in contemporary culture from a number of interdisciplinary and international perspectives. Since Michel Foucault aligned the 'power of sovereignty' with the disqualification of death in his 1975 essay 'Society Must be Defended', death has been at the forefront of biopolitical and geopolitical debates. Through another contemporary lens Achille Mbembe, writing in 2003, argued the expression of sovereignty ultimately resides in the capacity to dictate who may live and who may die. Yet Mbembe's necropolitics also opens up the question of the sufficiency of biopolitics to account for the question of death and sovereignty in the twenty-first century. This themed issue extends Mbembe's challenge by taking up the complex, often contentious subject of death in present-day culture as it is thought, and as it operates, within and beyond biopolitics. In bringing together articles from scholars across the fields of politics, law, philosophy, cultural studies, visual art and literature, the issue interrogates the conceptual status of death in biopolitical discourse by considering emerging post-biopolitical and post-human contexts.The issue intervenes at the intersection of biopolitical and post-biopolitical fields of knowledge, entering current debates on critical social and political issues such as contemporary geopolitics, drone warfare, the death penalty, euthanasia and the representation of erotic fatalities. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
Introduction: Death and the ContemporaryGeorgina Colby
The Prisoners of Starvation, or Necessitas dat legem
Warren Montag
Deconstructing Death: Derrida and the Scene of Execution
Elizabeth Rottenberg
Zoya Kosmodemianskaya between Sacrifice and Extermination
Jonathan Platt
The Face of the Good Death: Euthanasia and Levinas
Timothy Secret
Horror beyond Death: Geopolitics and the Pulverisation of the Human
Francois Debrix
Why Do the Dead Keep Coming Back?
Roger Luckhurst
Drone Poetics
Andrea Brady
Dying for Sex: Cultural and Forensic Narratives of Autoerotic Death
Lisa Downing
The Violations of Empathy
Jennifer Cooke
Imaginary Intimacies: Death and New Temporalities in the Work of Denise Riley and Nicholas Royle
Georgina Colby
Blind Seeing: Deathwriting from Dickinson to the contemporary
Peter Boxall
Sites of Death in Some Recent British Fiction
Robert Hampson
REVIEWS
Janet Wolff Car Thoughts
Ben Highmore Capacious Aesthetics
Ruth Preser Un-learning to See Palestine
Karin Lesnik-Oberstein ARTs and the Unconscious
Sheena Culley A Place for Practice
Kevin M.Potter Expansion/Expulsion
Julia Vassilieva Boris Groys: The Intruder
Conor Heaney Inventing New Lines
Dougal McNeill Psychoanalytic Stimulus Packages
S.Trimble Trust Sylvia Wynter
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