Deleuze and law : forensic futures / edited by Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Patrick Hanafin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braidotti, Rosi.

Colebrook, Claire.

Hanafin, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

ix, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The central concept, through which the embodiment of the subject will be examined will be that of 'biopower'. Articulated by Michel Foucault, but brought to attention more recently in the work of Giorgio Agamben, this concept recognises that the relation between life and law is both historical and necessary: the law must operate on bodies but can only do so by establishing a border between the body of the polity and the mere life excepted from political concern. The contemporary advent of biopolitics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body or organism-rather than the self-becomes the object of political management. The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life. The contributors explore the forensic shift in contemporary social theory and cultural sensibility from a number of perspectives.

Contents:

Introduction: Deleuze and law : forensic futures / Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin

Legal theory after Deleuze / Claire Colebrook

The time of law : evolution in Holmes and Bergson / Alexandre Lefebvre

Rights of passage : law and the biopolitics of dying / Patrick Hanafin

The Terri Schiavo case : biopolitics, biopower, and privacy as singularity / John Protevi

Vitalistic feminethics : materiality, mediation and the end of necrophilosophy / Patricia MacCormack

Locating Deleuze's eco-philosophy between bio/Zoe-power and necro-politics /Rosi Braidotti

Is there life in cybernetics? : designing a post-humanist bioethics / Joanna Zylinska

The silent scream

Agamben, Deleuze and the politics of the unborn / Melinda Cooper

Points of departure : the culture of US airport screening / Lisa Parks

The spectacle of war : security, legitimacy and profit post-9/11 / Ian Buchanan and Laura Guillaume.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230210172

0230210171

OCLC:

454379261