The Cinematic Anthropocene and the Future Politics of Killing [PDF]
Film-Philosophy, 2022 This article considers two films, Elysium (Neil Bloomkamp, 2013) and What Happened to Monday (Tommy Wirkola, 2017), in order to demonstrate that they foreshadow a paradigmatic shift in the relationship between biopolitics and thanatopolitics.
Gregers Andersen
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Contemporary Extinctions and Multispecies Thanatopolitics [PDF]
The Journal of Population and SustainabilityContrary to what Foucault argued, modern biopolitics is inherently thanatopolitical, i.e., it is a politics of life premised on a politics of death. This becomes clear when non-human elements are given greater relevance than Foucault afforded them. Since
João Aldeia
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The Death of Others. On the Narrative Rhetoric of Neoliberal Thanatopolitics
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are deeply controversial topics both within and beyond disability studies, involving issues of structural ableism, discrimination, and the right to self-determination.
Jan Grue
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From «thanatopolitics» to the universalization of economic rationality: «thanatoeconomy»
Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2015 The article has as an objective to put into evidence the progression from biological totalitarianism to totalitarianism of the life death market in world society.
Abdénago Yate Arévalo +1 more
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Hambre de tinieblas. Caníbales, zombis y vampiros en tres novelas contemporáneas del Cono Sur
Amerika, 2023 The intention of this paper is to formulate the concept of 'monstrous hunger' as the center of proposals and actions in three contemporary novels from the Southern Cone that fall within the horror genre: Cadáver exquisito (2018), by Agustina Bazterrica ...
Liliana Lara
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Cuadernos LIRICO, 2023 La parte de los crímenes, a section of Bolaño’s novel 2666, is taken here as part of a reflection on leftist melancholy, reading the text with Elías Palti’s contributions on the epistemic debacle of the left after the 1989/1991 cycle.
Brice Chamouleau
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Nietzsche and Biopolitics: Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker [PDF]
Ideas y Valores, 2015 Twentieth-century readers wondered if Nietzschean philosophy was apolitical, impolitic, or anti-political; that is, if it could be assimilated by democracy or if it was antimodern, elitist, and reactionary.
Vanesa Lemm
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G. Agamben and the Biopolitical Understanding of the Shoah
Problemos, 2022 The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, in his Homo Sacer-cycle, has developed a new paradigm for thinking the Shoah. Departing from Michel Foucault’s biopolitical thought, he argues that modern political power is made possible by the helix-structure ...
Luc Anckaert
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Smrt, stradanje i sećanje: Prilog proučavanju političke upotrebe smrti, stradanja i kolektivnog pamćenja na primeru srpsko-bugarskih odnosa posle Prvog svetskog rata [PDF]
Токови историје, 2017 The Serbian-Bulgarian relations, which were often marked by political and diplomatic conϐlicts and wars, culminated in the World War I. After the war, the Bulgarians became deeply rooted in the collective memory of the Serbs as an “arch-enemy” and the ...
Ivan Ristić
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Political theology: Possibility of comparison of the usage of death in theology and politics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2014 This paper considers the epistemological value of the concept of political theology in thanatopolitics. The concept can be useful if one wants to interpret political usage of death. In addition to blurred boundaries between politics and theology,
Kuljić Todor
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