The Living from the Dead : : Disaffirming Biopolitics / / Stuart J. Murray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Murray, Stuart J.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 The Cost of Living: On Pandemic Politics and Protests --; 2 Speech Begins After --; 3 Necessaries of Life: On Law, Medicine, and the Time of a Life --; 4 Racism’s Digital Dominion: On Hate Speech and Remediating Racist Tropes --; Refrain: And Who by His Own Hand? --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271093611; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994551; 9783110994520
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271093611?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stuart J. Murray.

In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life?Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let die,” Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which biopower works. These case studies include the concept of “sacrifice” in the “war” against COVID-19, where emergent cultures of pandemic “resistance” are explored alongside suicide bombings and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013; legal cases involving “preventable” and “untimely” childhood deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a disabled Black man. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of “making live” and “letting die.” His counter to this fact is a critical stance of disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life itself.A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory.