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What is Extinction? Ecopolitics of the End [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Routledge Open Research
In recent years, extinction has become something of a buzzword used to portray the state of consciousness of the epoch. Its definition as a concept, however, heavily oscillates between naturalistic, speculative, ethical and critical connotations. The aim
Gregorio Tenti
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Thanatopolitics in Monsoon Asia and its implications on Palliative Care Policy

, 2017
This paper is derived from a comparative study of thanatopolitics in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, and its historical and socio-cultural roots concerning their different forms of end-of life care.
Wu, YH
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EL ESTADO-HOSPITAL: CORPORALIDADES ANÁRQUICAS, BIOPOLÍTICA Y VIOLENCIA EN IMPUESTO A LA CARNE DE DIAMELA ELTIT

, 2017
El presente trabajo se propone, a partir del análisis de la novela Impuesto a la carne (2010) de Diamela Eltit, demostrar el modo en que el paradigma biopolítico da lugar a un control excesivo sobre los cuerpos, “legitimando” distintas formas de ...
Solorza, Paola Susana, Paola Susana Solorza   +1 more
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Architecture as an Extension of the Domain of Struggle. An Idea of Europe Revisited in View of Three Successive Concepts: Technocracy, Thanatopolitics and Thanatopraxia

Histories of Postwar Architecture
A few years after the original edition of Michel Houellebecq's book Extension of the Domain of Struggle, in the aftermath of the civil war and the subsequent balkanization of Yugoslavia, Lebbeus Woods accompanies a dystopian proposal for the ...
Daniel Maurício Santos de Jesus
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Das Verschwinden des Todes - Biopolitik, Medizynismus und Menschenversuche in Jens Bjørneboes Før hanen galer

NORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2016
With regard to Giorgio Agamben’s thesis that biopower is an essential structure of modern society not only for 20th century dictatorships but also for democratic governments, this paper demonstrates the similar and profound structures between the ...
Christopher Hees
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Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID-19 on disabled people. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn, 2021
Mladenov T, Brennan CS.
europepmc   +1 more source

\u3ci\u3eIt Follows\u3c/i\u3e: Precarity, Thanatopolitics, and the Ambient Horror Film

, 2017
In the 2014 horror film It Follows, a teenage woman is terrorized by a fatal curse that passes from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. The subject of the curse is relentlessly pursued by vacant-minded assassins that take the form of friends, loved ...
Kelly, Casey Ryan
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Killing The State: The Cultural Afterlife of Edward Byrne

, 2016
The death of a police officer provides us a chance to understand our current histories. As something tragic, the bodies of officers killed in the line-of-duty gain national attention.
Turner, Justin
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Governmentality Versus Community: The Impact of the COVID Lockdowns. [PDF]

Int J Community Wellbeing, 2023
Wallace C, Mytna-Kurekova L, Leon M, O'Reilly J, Blome C, Bussi M, Faith B, Finney M, Leschke J, Ruffa C, Russell E, AhSchøyen M, Thurer M, Unt M, Verdin R.   +14 more
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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 ...
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