Part 1. Punishment and sacrifice : the death penalty and the penitentiary -- Biopolitics and the politics of sacrifice : Derrida on life, life death, and the death penalty / Michael Naas -- Posthuman and postanimal futures, or, The possibilities of a deconstructive biopolitics / Rick Elmore -- Blood on our minds, blood on our hands / Brad Elliott Stone -- Foucault and biopolitics in the penitentiary : death in/by incarceration / Ege Selin Islekel -- Part 2. Taking lives, letting die : the biopolitics of race -- Making die or letting die : Derrida, Foucault, and the refugee crisis / Kelly Oliver -- Counting heads : reason, the human, and capital punishment(s) / Maria de la Cruz Salvador Lopez -- From the will to race to hygienic feminism : race, state, habit / Tamsin Kimoto -- Part 3. Resistance in action -- Fearless lives : parrhesia in a biopolitical frame / Sid Hansen -- The silent exception : hunger-striking and lip-sewing / Banu Bargu -- The etymology of unity : Derrida, Foucault, and the end of prisons / Janos Toevs.
Summary:
"The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance"-- Provided by publisher.
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