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Thanatopolitics and Fugitive Mourning in Pandemic Death [PDF]

open access: yesSocial and Health Sciences, 2021
COVID-19 has reminded us that death is not only inevitable but also, for those who are constructed as death bound, imminent and immanent. In this paper, I contend that this season of mass death has led to an intensified thanatopolitics where the state has sought to take over full control of corpses and the death world.
Canham, Hugo
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Thanatopolitics

Abstract Chapter 3 analyses the theatrical productions of classical drama during and after the Second World War, beginning with a critical assessment of the events as artistic phenomena that exercise power and authority. It explores how Italian fascism and German Nazism controlled artistic production and instituted the cultural policy of
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From Death Penalty to Thanatopolitics

Philosophy Today, 2019
Drawing from the works of Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Derrida, this article offers a theory of political theology for the contemporary Western liberal nation-state. Taking as its starting point the death penalty, it presents a triune theory of governance—what I call Trinitarian Governmentality—which exposes the ...
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Homo Amens: Epistemological Thanatopolitics and the Postcolonial Zombie

ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2020
This study identifies a recurring yet overlooked figure in global ethnic and diasporic literature that I term homo amens. Drawing from Agamben’s concept of homo sacer and the postcolonial zombie, I argue that homo amens (“the man without a mind”) is a powerful symbol of biopolitical violence that bypasses transgressions against the material body in ...
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Thanatopolitics and colonial logics in Blade Runner 2049

Thesis Eleven, 2021
This article critically engages with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, focusing on the relationship between colonial logics and biological engineering that understands the natural world as property. First, it discusses the connections between the film and the shifting status of biopolitics becoming thanatopolitics, prompted by advances in ...
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Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life

Theory, Culture & Society, 2016
This article focuses on the interrelationship of law and life in human rights. It does this in order to theorize the normative status of contemporary biopower. To do this, the case law of Article 2 on the right to life of the European Convention on Human Rights is analysed.
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