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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Thanatopolitics"”.
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… Agamben has argued that bio-politics turns into "thanatopolitics" — a politics of death. As Agamben argues, death is not a biological moment but a political decision. In this study I will focus specifically on reconsidering the relations of power surrounding the decision to stop preserving life in …
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The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
<p>In this dissertation, I develop a <em>convict epistemology</em> that interweaves two elements: 1) a deep engagement with the works of particular philosophers and scholars investigating questions of punishment, violence, biopolitics and political philosophy 2) with some specific, …