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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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The unequal death. A study on the thanatopolitics of disability

2022
During the pandemic, dependent elderly people and those with disabilities were among the most affected by Covid-19: the mortality rate in these people, especially those living in residential care facilities, was much higher than in the rest of the population.
Bernardini M. G., Tarantino C.
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Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction

2017
Considers the status of reproduction and abortion for the two leading proponents of the thanatopolitical interpretations of Foucauldian biopolitics: Italian philosophers Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Re-evaluates a number of feminist critiques of their work.
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Politicization of Life and Auto-Thanatopolitics in V for Vendetta

2020
This chapter offers a biopolitical reading of V for Vendetta using Giorgio Agamben’s topology of sovereign power and bare life. The chapter problematizes the boundaries of sovereign power, arguing that in the zone of indistinction, where bare life and the sovereign come closest to one another in an inextricable bond, by the inability to complete a ...
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Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido: Settler Colonialism and Primitive Accumulation

Critical Historical Studies, 2015
AbstractThis article provides an overview of late nineteenth-century Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, a land long inhabited by indigenous people, the Ainu, with a particular theoretical question in mind: What was the precise relationship between the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the Japanese government’s drive for primitive accumulation
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Nations in black: charting the national thanatopolitics of mourning across European countries

European Societies, 2019
Periods of national mourning have been on the rise in the last decades in European societies as part of a wider process of democratization, whereby ordinary citizens have been increasingly granted ...
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The Thanatopolitics of Neoliberalism and Consumer Precarity

2021
Rohit Varman, Devi Vijay
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From spaces of thanatopolitics to spaces of natality – A commentary on ‘Geographies of the camp’

Political Geography, 2015
Irit Katz
exaly