This book explains how biopolitical arguments, theories, and perspectives have attempted to understand how life itself is being captured within the field of politics.
François Debrix is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech, USA.
Introduction: global powers of horror
1. Vulnerable bodies: rethinking camp-life and biopolitics
2. Time and the sovereign body: how security politics confronts the horror of finitude
3. Body parts of terror: rethinking security politics through the disseminated body
4. Severing heads: deconstruction hors texte, or what remains of the human
Epilogue: fusing remnants at the 9/11 Memorial Museum