|aDeleuze and law|h[electronic resource] :|bforensic futures /|ceditedBy Rosi Braidotti, ClaireColebrook, Patrick Hanafin.
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|aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aIntroduction: Deleuze and law : forensic futures / Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin -- Legal theory after Deleuze / Claire Colebrook -- The time of law : evolution in Holmesand 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? : designinga post-humanist bioethics / Joanna Zylinska -- The silentscream--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.
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|aDeleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent eventsfocused 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 'bio-power'. 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 bio-politics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body ororganism - rather than the self - becomes theobject 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.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.