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Corpus Anarchicum
- Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body
Engelsk Paperback
Corpus Anarchicum
- Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body
Engelsk Paperback

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This book is a meditation on and an attempt to understand suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge: the decade between 2001 and 2011, from the suicidal mission of Muhammad Atta and his band in the United States to the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 in Tunisia. After the former a devastating military strike and occupation of two Muslim countries commenced, and after the latter a massive transnational democratic uprising ensued. Suicidal violence is neither specific to Islam nor peculiar to our time. It has been manifested in practically all cultures and religions and throughout human history. But the suicidal violence we witness today is of an entirely different disposition because the bodies (both of the assailant and of the assailed) on which it is perpetrated are no longer the human body of our Enlightenment assumption. What we are witnessing is in fact the contour of a posthuman body. The posthuman body, as Dabashi here proposes, is the body of a contingent and contextual being, and as such an object of disposable knowledge; while the human body that it has superseded was corporeally integral, autonomous, rational, indispensable, and above all the site of a knowing subject.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
235
ISBN-13:
9781137264121
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1137264128
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
24 sep 2012
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
24 sep 2012
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