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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Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm
Antipode, 2023 AbstractAgricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated
Evan Klasky, Bilal Butt
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Thanatopolitics and Fugitive Mourning in Pandemic Death [PDF]
Social 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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Thinking the war (in Colombia) beyond thanatopolitics [PDF]
Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social, 2015 En este artículo reconozco las posibilidades y los límites de pensar la guerra exclusivamente como una práctica tanatopolítica, en el marco de la perspectiva foucaultiana del poder.
Muñoz-Onofre, Darío
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“Thanatopolitics” in the Socio-Political Discourse in the 2000s and 2020s: between the “Living Dead” and “Necrosociality” [PDF]
ДискурсIntroduction. Over the past twenty years, the terms “thanatopolitics”, “necropolitics”, “necroeconomics”, etc. have been actively used in socio-political discourse. But the definitions of these meanings remain blurred.
I. M. Rotov
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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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Critique, History and Politics: Notes for a Foucauldian Reading of the So-called Conquest of the Desert in Argentina [PDF]
Cuadernos de Filosofía LatinoamericanaIn this article, I propose a Foucauldian reading of the so-called Conquest of the Desert, which took place in Argentina during the 19th century. This event played a foundational role in the formation of the Argentinian nation-state and its society, and ...
Marcelo Raffin
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Fabricating the Thanatopolitical Body in Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Cárcel de Árboles [PDF]
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2018 Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s first novella, Carcel de arboles (1991), tells the story of a secret politico-medical experiment conducted on prisoners who have been condemned to death by the ...
Bollington, L
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