{"product_id":"9780271093413","title":"The Living from the Dead : Disaffirming Biopolitics (Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has \"let die,\" Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which biopower works. These case studies include the concept of \"sacrifice\" in the \"war\" against COVID-19, where emergent cultures of pandemic \"resistance\" are explored alongside suicide bombings and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013; legal cases involving \"preventable\" and \"untimely\" childhood deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a disabled Black man. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of \"making live\" and \"letting die.\" His counter to this fact is a critical stance of disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667226341611,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":201.34,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780271093413-1.jpg?v=1781614048","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780271093413","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}