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5. Necrologies

or, the Death of the Body Politic
  • Eugene Thacker
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Beyond Biopolitics
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© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Beyond Biopolitics 1
  5. Part I Unexceptional control: Governance, race, and population
  6. 1. National Enterprise Emergency 19
  7. 2. Human Security/National Security 46
  8. 3. “The Turban Is Not a Hat” 65
  9. 4. Strict Scrutiny 106
  10. Part II Preemption: death and life-itself
  11. 5. Necrologies 139
  12. 6. Mnemonic Control 163
  13. 7. Thanato-Tactics 177
  14. Part III Transforming Value: The Measure of life capacities
  15. 8. Strange Circulations 213
  16. 9. Necropolitical Surveillance 238
  17. 10. From the Race War to the War on Terror 258
  18. Part IV Technological investments: temporality, Media, and Methodologies
  19. 11. “Seeing” Spectral Agencies 277
  20. 12. Here We Accrete Durations 306
  21. 13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe 332
  22. 14. Blackness and Governance 351
  23. Bibliography 363
  24. Contributors 381
  25. Index 385
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394235-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Beyond Biopolitics 1
  5. Part I Unexceptional control: Governance, race, and population
  6. 1. National Enterprise Emergency 19
  7. 2. Human Security/National Security 46
  8. 3. “The Turban Is Not a Hat” 65
  9. 4. Strict Scrutiny 106
  10. Part II Preemption: death and life-itself
  11. 5. Necrologies 139
  12. 6. Mnemonic Control 163
  13. 7. Thanato-Tactics 177
  14. Part III Transforming Value: The Measure of life capacities
  15. 8. Strange Circulations 213
  16. 9. Necropolitical Surveillance 238
  17. 10. From the Race War to the War on Terror 258
  18. Part IV Technological investments: temporality, Media, and Methodologies
  19. 11. “Seeing” Spectral Agencies 277
  20. 12. Here We Accrete Durations 306
  21. 13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe 332
  22. 14. Blackness and Governance 351
  23. Bibliography 363
  24. Contributors 381
  25. Index 385
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