The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror : Living, Dying, Surviving

The contributors explores the intellectual, cultural, and political logics of the US-led war on terror and its consequences on lived lives in a range of contexts. The book interrogates the ways in which biopolitical practices hinge on political imaginaries and materialities of violence and death. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Crossroads of Death....Pages 3-24 Missing Persons: Manhattan, September 2001....Pages 25-42 Body Counts: The Biopolitics of Death....Pages 43-57 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 Responsibility and Terror: Visual Culture and Violence in the Precarious Life....Pages 61-82 Persistence of Memory? The (New) Surrealism of American Security Policy....Pages 83-107 Securitizing the Unconscious: The Bush Doctrine of Preemption and Minority Report....Pages 109-127 The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle....Pages 129-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Sovereign Contradictions: Maher Arar and the Indefinite Future....Pages 159-179 Abject Spaces: Frontiers, Zones, Camps....Pages 181-203 Biopolitics and the Tragic Subject of Human Rights....Pages 205-228 Living, Dying, Surviving II....Pages 229-243 Back Matter....Pages 245-252 "This volume is a collection of stories about the stories we tell. They are about the ways in which the political is inscribed on human bodies and human lives, and they explore the logics and contexts in which particular forms of violence are made possible and sustained. The stories interrogate the political spaces in and around the war on terror, inquiring after the missing, the deported, the detained, the forgotten, and the dead. By extension, they are also stories that ask us lo interrogate who we think "we" are, and what the political imaginaries associated with that "we" demand of us and of others. The authors of this volume find their stories in experiences of the everyday; and indeed the war on terror has become the everyday, leaking into the ordinary spaces of human lives."--Jacket