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Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism
Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life
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2014
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This book articulates a contemporary, globalized world as one in which radical disparities in distribution of wealth are being reproduced as the basis for depoliticized social, institutional, and ideological discourses. At its center is a reorientation of global capitalism from the management of life towards making a surplus value from death. This change is presented as a reorientation of biopolitics (bio meaning life) to necropolitics (necro meaning death). Therefore in the book we work with processes of change, of a historicization of biopolitics and its turn into necropolitics that leads to a theoretical trajectory from M. Foucault to A. Mbembe and beyond.
This book interprets the sustained perception of existence of dichotomy between these provisional extremes as a trademark of apolitical and/or post-political logics on which contemporary institutional, political, and social discourses tend to be structured upon. More, contrary to the majority of approaches that insists on a profound dichotomy between democracy and totalitarianism, between poverty and free market, and between democracy and capitalism, this book does not interpret these relations as dichotomous, but as mutually fulfilling.
The book elaborates, in the context of articulation of these logics, contemporary, imperial racism (racialization) as an ideology of capitalism and states that the First World’s monopoly on definition of modernity has its basis in contemporary reorganization of colonialism.
In the book, the authors trace a forensic methodology of global capitalism with which life, art, culture, economy, and the political are becoming part of a detailed system of scrutiny presented and framed in relation to criminal or civil law. Criminalization of each and every segment of our life is working hand in hand with a depoliticization of social conflicts and pacification of the relation between those who rules and those who are ruled. The outcome is a differentiation of every single concept that must from now bear the adjectives of the necropolitical or forensic; therefore we can talk about forensic images, art, projects, and necropolitical life, democracy, citizenship. This will change radically the perspectives of an emancipative project of politics (if it is any possible to be named as such) for the future.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9196-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9197-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
323
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: The Darkest Sides of Europe and Global Capitalism No access
Chapter Two: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Unrestrained Financialization, and Fascisms No access
Chapter Three: Southeastern Europe and the Question of Knowledge, Capital, and Power No access
Chapter Four: Racialized Dehumanization, the Binary Occident/Orient in EU, and Decoloniality No access
Chapter Five: A Refugee Protest Camp in Vienna and the European Union’s Processes of Racialization, Seclusion, and Discrimination No access
Chapter Six: Elaborating on Transmigrant and Transfeminist Dissident Positions No access
Chapter Seven: Content, Form, and Repetition No access
Chapter Eight: A Broad Overview of Basic Principles of Reorganization of Global Capitalism No access
Chapter Nine: The Hegemonic Capacity of a Gap between Politics and Ideology No access
Chapter Ten: The Function of Democracy in Normalization of the Hegemony No access
Chapter Eleven: The Revival of Ideological Firmness: Racial-State and the Formalization of Necropolitics No access
Chapter Twelve: The Unending Transition No access
Chapter Thirteen: The Effect of the Depoliticization of the Distance between the Oppressor and the Oppressed No access
Chapter Fourteen: Substantialization of Depoliticized Ideology No access
