“Shadowy objects in the test tubes”: Biocitizenship, Disposable Bodies, and Wasted Lives in Hanif Kureishi’s “The Body” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
15 Dec 2020-Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (Aesthetics Media Services)-Vol. 12, Iss: 6
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Abstract: Introduction Part I. The Logic of Sovereignty: 1. The paradox of sovereignty 2. 'Nomos Basileus' 3. Potentiality and law 4. Form of law Threshold Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer 2. The ambivalence of the sacred 3. Sacred life 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' 5. Sovereign body and sacred body 6. The ban and the wolf Threshold Part III. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern: 1. The politicization of life 2. Biopolitics and the rights of man 3. Life that does not deserve to live 4. 'Politics, or giving form to the life of a people' 5. VP 6. Politicizing death 7. The camp as the 'Nomos' of the modern Threshold Bibliography Index of names.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the birth and death of literature and politics in the early 20th century, including the birth of literature, torture, and death.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1. Think Again: An Introduction 2. Death Again: Reimagining the End 3. Revisiting Torture and Torment 4. Revisiting Clones: Change and the Politics of Life 5. Rethinking Suffering: Self and Substance 6. The Birth of Literature 7. The Birth of Politics 8. Rethinking Birth and Aging: A Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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