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Foucault/PaulBetween Life and Death

Foucault/Paul: Between Life and Death [What does it mean to be alive in the twenty-first century? Žižek, as quoted in the previous chapter, offers up some suggestions: the suicide bomber at the moment before detonation, the soldier turned computer-programmer who never has to face real hand-to-hand combat, and the affluent Westerner whose paranoid fear over death and aging is managed through suffocating fitness and dietary regimes. To these we might add the inmates of Guantanamo, the ones “the bombs missed”; the college students pumped full of Prozac and lithium because the pressure of grades, tuition fees, and social acceptance prove too much to actually “live” through; and the migrant workers forced to live in underpasses and garbage disposal units having left their homes, families, and communities in search of a “better” life.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foucault/PaulBetween Life and Death

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Fuggle, Sophie
Foucault/Paul — Oct 29, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-46006-9
Pages
53 –98
DOI
10.1057/9781137323408_3
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Abstract

[What does it mean to be alive in the twenty-first century? Žižek, as quoted in the previous chapter, offers up some suggestions: the suicide bomber at the moment before detonation, the soldier turned computer-programmer who never has to face real hand-to-hand combat, and the affluent Westerner whose paranoid fear over death and aging is managed through suffocating fitness and dietary regimes. To these we might add the inmates of Guantanamo, the ones “the bombs missed”; the college students pumped full of Prozac and lithium because the pressure of grades, tuition fees, and social acceptance prove too much to actually “live” through; and the migrant workers forced to live in underpasses and garbage disposal units having left their homes, families, and communities in search of a “better” life.]

Published: Oct 29, 2015

Keywords: Jewish People; Body Politic; Sovereign Power; Eternal Life; Disciplinary Power

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