Biopolitics of the War on Terror - Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity Defence of Logistical Societies

Informationen zum Autor Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. 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 EpilogueIndex

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• Authors: Julian Reid
• Assisted by: Jon Simons (Editor), Simon Tormey (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9780719074066
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7406-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Reappraising the Political; Reappraising the Political (Pa; Reappraising the Political; Reappraising the Political (Pa
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education