From Agamben to ZizekEdinburgh University Press, 2010 M09 10 - 288 pages In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. |
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Page 5
... biopolitics and Deleuze's notion of desire provides a framework for understanding global capitalism and anti-capitalist movements. Bhabha and Spivak engaged critically and variously with deconstruction, psychoanalysis and Marxism in ...
... biopolitics and Deleuze's notion of desire provides a framework for understanding global capitalism and anti-capitalist movements. Bhabha and Spivak engaged critically and variously with deconstruction, psychoanalysis and Marxism in ...
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... biopolitics of modernity make of it a time where the humanity of humans is more lost than ever. The thought of 'the space of language' as both negative and truly transcendental is more satisfyingly developed in Language and Death, which ...
... biopolitics of modernity make of it a time where the humanity of humans is more lost than ever. The thought of 'the space of language' as both negative and truly transcendental is more satisfyingly developed in Language and Death, which ...
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... biopolitics, as well as ideologies of human value. Humanity is defined by the possibility of not having language. Following Hegel, Agamben writes that 'the definitive annihilation of man in the proper sense, however, must also entail ...
... biopolitics, as well as ideologies of human value. Humanity is defined by the possibility of not having language. Following Hegel, Agamben writes that 'the definitive annihilation of man in the proper sense, however, must also entail ...
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... biopolitics, bare existence and so on, with the complaint that today's world is vacuous, lost in noise and superficiality (a position Agamben has held since his early writings). The conclusion is that to think the human/animal border ...
... biopolitics, bare existence and so on, with the complaint that today's world is vacuous, lost in noise and superficiality (a position Agamben has held since his early writings). The conclusion is that to think the human/animal border ...
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... biopolitics' of modernity, but, according to Agamben, it can and must be traced back throughout Western culture, to classical Greek and Roman law. Foucault writes of the biopoliticisation of life, notably in the first volume of his ...
... biopolitics' of modernity, but, according to Agamben, it can and must be traced back throughout Western culture, to classical Greek and Roman law. Foucault writes of the biopoliticisation of life, notably in the first volume of his ...
Contents
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4 Homi K Bhabha 1949 | 60 |
5 Judith Butler 1956 | 77 |
6 Cornelius Castoriadis 192297 | 93 |
7 Green Critical Theorists | 110 |
10 Bruno Latour 1947 | 161 |
11 Antonio Negri 1933 | 177 |
12 Jacques Rancière 1940 | 194 |
13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1942 | 210 |
14 Paul Virilio 1932 | 227 |
15 Slavoj Žižek 1949 | 243 |
Names index | 259 |
Subject index | 263 |
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