Killing The State: The Cultural Afterlife of Edward Byrne [PDF]
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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"Schizo-Lucia on “Jungfraud’s Messongebook”: The Techno-Thanatopolitics of (Mis)Diagnosis"
Carol Loeb Shloss’s radical attempt to invalidate the presumed diagnoses of Lucia Joyce’s schizophrenia in To Dance in the Wake has attracted criticism that questions her medical expertise. With no intention to endorse Shloss’s denial of Lucia’s mental illness, this paper, however, aims to trace the flaws intrinsic to Emil Kraepelin’s conception of ...
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Rethinking the norm of Life Beyond Biopolitics. Towards an Ethical Framework [PDF]
This thesis is concerned with the qualification of forms of life in approaches of biopolitics and vitalism, two main perspectives that map discussions around the politics of life in contemporary political theorising.
Raimondi, S., Raimondi, S.
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It Follows: precarity, thanatopolitics, and the ambient horror film
ABSTRACTIn 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 ones, and strangers.
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Biopolitics, Race and Resistance in the Novels of Salman Rushdie [PDF]
The twenty-first century has seen a resurgence of academic interest in biopolitics: the often oppressive political power over human biology, human bodies and their actions that emerges when political technologies concern themselves with and act upon a ...
Twigg, George William
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Esposito’s affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes [PDF]
Bennett J +30 more
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\u3ci\u3eIt Follows\u3c/i\u3e: Precarity, Thanatopolitics, and the Ambient Horror Film [PDF]
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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Queering the Social Imaginaries of the Dead. [PDF]
Shildrick M.
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Trans* necropolitics. Gender Identity Law in Argentina [PDF]
: On May 9th, 2012, the Argentinean Senate converted into law the long collective process, driven by trans* activism, towards the legal recognition of gender identity.
De Mauro Rucovsky, Martin Adrian
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Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben's Concept of "Bare Life". [PDF]
Burke L.
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