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Informationen zum Autor Arne De Boever is Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program at the California Institute of the Arts. Klappentext 'Rejecting all form of transcendence or messianism and providing us with a highly original reading of Agamben, De Boever proves that sovereignty implies its own transformability.' Catherine Malabou, Kingston University Does sovereignty have a future in the twenty-first century? Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future. Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. Cover image: Anish Kapoor Unveils Leviathan at Monumenta 2011 (c) Julien Hekimian/Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN [PPC] 978-0-7486-8497-7 ISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-1797-6 Barcode Zusammenfassung Through a sustained engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou! and against the background of contemporary political phenomena! Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: The Future of SovereigntyPart I: Aesthetics1: An Experiment with Language2: The Divine Violence of Storytelling3: From Translatability to PoliticsPart II: Economy4: The Proletariat's Bare Life5: Technology, Ontology, Politics6: The Work of InoperativityPart III: Politics7: Agamben in America8: Sovereignty's Glitches9: Formations of Infancy
