The biopolitics of the war on terror : life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies

The biopolitics of the war on terror : life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies / Julian Reid.

Reid provides a biopolitical analysis of the origins and development of the War on Terror. Aimed at students and lecturers in International Relations, Political and Social Theory and War and Security Studies, this book theorises the political potentials for human life beyond and after Liberalism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reid, Julian (Julian David McHardy)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
Series:Reappraising the political.
Subjects:
2001-2009
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Social aspects > United States.
Biopolitics.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Biopolitics
Social aspects
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • War and liberal modernity : a biopolitical critique
  • Logistical life : war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies
  • Nomadic life : war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium
  • Defiant life : the seductions of terror amid the tyranny of the human
  • Circulatory life : 9/11 as architectural catastrophe, and the hypermodernity of terror
  • Biopolitical life : the 'war against war' of the multitude.

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