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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Bare life"”.
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The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta
… ways that reduce the citizens to the status of bare-life. Although Agamben has identified the concentration camps as the paradigmatic basis of the modern state of exception, I propose that the creeks of the Delta offer an exemplary case that is consistent with bare life - a space as much …
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ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
… theories of Foucault’s bio-power and Agamben’s bare life, I explain how the national ID card systems enable the state to include and exclude people, use them for its own power, and produce subjects to support the state. Although this process is often hidden, the scheme is a vital part of the …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… trope to clarify the relationship between the "life" of the political body and the slaughter and consumption of "disposable" peoples. Cannibalism registers the unavoidable swing between biopolitical principles and necropolitical violence. It illuminates how the concept of the nation as a …
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When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the Ethics of Contemporary Conflict
… theory and pacifism) to the domain of everyday life and the ways that local Christians theologically frame and practically reason through conflict. I explore the 1996-1997 Rwandan refugee crisis through the voice of a Catholic survivor, Marie Béatrice Umutesi, and consider how her narrative …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… biopolitics through Benjamin’s idea of ‘bare life’ in which the law is manifested as violence by its very nature. I argue that Magritte’s paintings illuminate the ubiquitous violence of the state of exception as proposed by Benjamin, and developed by Agamben. Discussing the simulacrum I …
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Climates of Mutation: Posthuman Orientations in Twenty-First Century Ecological Science Fiction
… understanding. By mapping the aspects of bare life, posthuman becomings, multispecies community, and environmental agency that situate these texts within their climate-focused twenty-first-century contexts, my dissertation models its own series of entanglements. It also reveals areas of …
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Thinking Through the Phenomenon of Trust: A Philosophical Investigation
… articulates the feeling of being entrusted with life, a feeling that one experiences as a call to existential responsibility, to proper "care for the soul." Further, Socrates enjoins his interlocutors to trust in logos as part of properly caring for the soul at the same time that he subtly warns …
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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
… is not ashamed to exhibit his wounded private life as the source of his singular market value. I claim, however, that even in his fully developed contemporary form in which his classical predecessors trauma induced shamelessness turns into a cynically calculated affective display, noirs …
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Lumpen: Vagrancies of a Concept from Marx to Fanon (and on)
… philosophical fascination with, for instance, bare life, necropolitics and the abject. Such work has however rarely considered the political ramifications of such transformations. What we would need, then, is a theoretical framework capable of grasping both aspects of this twofold …
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Besieged Life: Subjecting Liberal Muslim Women in the War on Terror
… only mean the uneven distribution of the loss of life as a result of racism, but also the unmaking of Muslim women as tawhidic subjects—subjects who are forged in relation to an Islamic worldview in which there is no god but God. Put otherwise, this view of anti-Muslim racism recognizes how it …