Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
50 (תשעח) 257-274
Keywords:
Political science Philosophy
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 21st century
;
Israel Politics and government
Abstract:
What does life look like when all separations – between the individual and the collective, private and public, body and law, person and state – are suspended or cancelled? Such queries have shaped the core of the biopolitical critique of the past few decades, starting with Michelle Foucault’s well-known lectures of the mid-1970s. The biopolitical theory returns to key concepts of the interwar era, when democracy engaged with the rising power of Fascism. From that set of concepts it shaped different theoretical subfields, such as political theology, theory of the body, history and theory of technology, political economy, and theory of law. As key theoreticians – Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Žižek, Wendy Brown, and Catherine Mills – have demonstrated, such disciplinary areas intersect in the surveillance society or the biopolitical state of the present. Biopolitical theory proposes an alternative to the ideological and identity-based discussion of the twentieth century. It confronts the notion of “naked life” with the most recent version of political and social norms and conventions, shared by the left and the right. From a local perspective, biopolitical theory enables one to consider “the only democracy in the Middle East” as a lab for “the state of siege” and “emergency regulations.”
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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