Julian Reid

The biopolitics of the war on terror (eBook, ePUB)

Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796561
• Artikelnr.: 42369777

Autorenporträt

Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. 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
Epilogue