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Improper life [electronic resource] : technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben / Timothy C. Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Timothy C.
- Series:
- Posthumanities ; 18.
- Posthumanities ; 18
- Standardized Title:
- Vita impropria. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biopolitics.
- Death--Political aspects.
- Death.
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
- Contents:
- Preface: bios between thanatos and techn?
- Divisions of the proper: Heidegger, technology, and the biopolitical
- The dispositifs of thanatopolitics: improper writing and life
- Barely breathing: Sloterdijk's immunitary biopolitics
- Practicing bios: attention and play as techn?.
- Notes:
- "Portions ... appeared originally in Italian as Vita impropria"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4669-8
- 0-8166-7843-X
- OCLC:
- 776592243
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