{"product_id":"9780271093413-living-from-the-dead","title":"The Living from the Dead","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDisaffirming Biopolitics. \u003cp\u003ePresents a rhetorical critique of contemporary neoliberal biopolitics through a series of transdisciplinary case studies.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, \u003ci\u003eThe Living from the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40357376196705,"sku":"9780271093413","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/77d408352ecfc59b4d1145a19f56dc84.jpg?v=1674711452","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780271093413-living-from-the-dead","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}