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The erotics of corruption : law, scandal, and political perversion / Ruth A. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption.
- Sexual ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period, Ruth A. Miller argues that narratives of political corruption rely upon an explicitly pornographic rhetoric and have been instrumental in carving out lawless or exceptional space. Drawing upon an extensive and wide-ranging literature, she examines corruption, the erotic, and legal exceptionalism as they appear in media representations of Saddam Hussein as "corrupt leader," nineteenth-century political cartoons, Pier Pasolini's film Salo, Ernst Kantorowicz's theorization of the body politic, Giorgio Agamben's analysis of biopolitics, and Achille Mbembe's discussion of the postcolony. Miller comments on both the erotic nature of the state of exception and colonial or postcolonial manifestations of it, and presents a new voice in ongoing conversations about law, violence, and sexuality in the contemporary world.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Corruption, democracy, and the colony
- A vocabulary of corruption
- Theoretical framework
- An overview
- Conclusion
- Political corruption as sexual deviance : a literature review
- The body politic
- The developing state and its infantile transgression
- Striptease : political transparency and self-regarding behavior
- Incest, cannibalism, and corporate responsibility
- Celebrating the corrupt leader
- Pornography and testimony
- Getting to know Abdul and Saddam
- Developing state, developing star
- Body doubles and doubled bodies
- Confession
- Condemning the corrupt system
- Biopolitical space and totalitarian space
- Salo : the 120 days of Sodom
- Bandits and bureaucrats
- The portable torture nation
- Bribery, nepotism, and decay
- Dehumanizing bureaucracies
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791478202
- 0791478203
- 9781435658547
- 143565854X
- OCLC:
- 237789685
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