Description: Further DetailsTitle: Biopolitics as a System of ThoughtCondition: NewISBN-10: 1350412082EAN: 9781350412088ISBN: 9781350412088Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/13/2024Description: Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this book examines how we arrived at this mode of being and asks how it could be that, while the material conditions of our lives have increasingly worsened, our capacities for effective political action, understood as the capacity for transforming our existing social relations, appear to be diminishing.Drawing from jurists and philosophers such as Pierre Legendre, Yan Thomas, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, Richards argues that biopolitics intervenes at the most minute level of our everyday lives. She argues that there are conceptual truths presupposed in the mode of biopolitics’ functioning, for instance that life can be assigned a value for the purpose of intervention, abandonment, or death, which have implications for our politics. In exciting engagements with political movements such as the post-May 1968 Mouvement des travailleurs Arabes (MTA), Richards shows how demands to transform our system of social relations are undermined by institutional models that proffer to offer rights protection while simultaneously annihilating the living altogether. Through a reappraisal of law, governance and capital, Richards seeks to reconceptualise our collectivity of thought, arguing for a politics of destitution that could form the basis of a communism to come.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Serene RichardsGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Biopolitics as a System of Thought
Title: Biopolitics as a System of Thought
ISBN-10: 1350412082
EAN: 9781350412088
ISBN: 9781350412088
Release Date: 06/13/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Biopolitics As a System of Thought
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Social, General, Political
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Serene Richards
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
