...Preemption<subtitle>Death and Life-Itself</subtitle> ...

... Chapter 5 examines suicide bombing as a deathly act that unsettles and appropriates the life script of liberal citizenship. Focusing on the Palestinian context under Israeli occupation, where the Palestinians exist under conditions of “living-death,” the chapter suggests a rereading...

... life itself affect matter neo-Darwinism ethnographic interventions ...

... In light of this ethnographic account of liveliness in the molecular stories told by protein modelers, this chapter asks, “what is life becoming?” in the contemporary biosciences. The analysis resists the temptation to claim that practitioners have finally captured “life itself” in their hands...

... of interference and control in the name of improving life chances, or the quality of existence, the promise of beauty is a proposition and a politics of intervening in history and life itself. Considering that which might hold out clusters of real or ideal formations such as romantic love, spiritual transcendence...

... such as political life, economic life, gender life, and life itself. The liberal citizenship script contains elements of ideology (à la Marx), hegemony (à la Gramsci), and discourse (à la Foucault) that exist in a shifting continuum. This moving continuum molds different types of liberal citizen-subjects in varied...

... such as political life, economic life, gender life, and life itself. The liberal citizenship script contains elements of ideology (à la Marx), hegemony (à la Gramsci), and discourse (à la Foucault) that exist in a shifting continuum. This moving continuum molds different types of liberal citizen-subjects in varied...

... and forms of colonial power are expressed through the domain of life itself, through the body and its environments. This work, however, must be approached carefully and disentangled from a posthuman idealism that romanticizes the worlds of animals, environments, bodies, and things at the expense...

... was, at its black diasporan foundations, a site of more equivocal thought about how to live a free life in the Atlantic world than either interpretation grants. It then turns to the epistolary archive of common black settlers in order to show how their reflections on “return” and “the natives” offer...

... that there is no such thing as an objective environment for living systems, or for social systems, de-ontologizing all objects. Autopoiesis is shown to have affinities to Foucault’s “ethopoiesis,” forms of ethical self-making. The argument that there is no access to “life itself” challenges Malabou’s theories of sovereignty...

... The 1902 court case Jacobson v. Massachusetts marks a moment in U.S. history in which the imperial state explicitly makes the field of life itself as a proper domain of governmental intervention. Responding to fears that settler colonialism brought an expanding United States into dangerous...

... on the brink of death, as well as a death haunting life itself; and a future sought skeptically and critically. freedom race African Colonization Society Olaudah Equiano Phillis Wheatley Edward Wilmont Blyden This chapter focuses on two sets of letters from two black settlers to a white...

... of violence and oppression. The section then turns to cure’s relationship to eradication and the different kinds of comfort and violence that accompany it—the elimination of a virus, of future existence, of present-day embodiments, or in some cases of life itself. The last part of the section centers on Terri...

... by each member, to the songs identifying music as a place of strength and safety in the face of a pandemic (i.e., “Life Goes On”), and the physical design of the album itself, BE distinguishes itself as a quarantine album and provides an elaboration on spatiality and connection during the unprecedented...

... The paradox of the official world is that an indoor social life is at every moment oriented to the Great Outdoors. This chapter tracks the tactics of interaction—and noninteraction—that define a form of social life turned against itself. There is at once an “incrementalist turn” in recent...

... there an underhanded stash of, for, and by queer and trans life itself. Attuning to the stash in these ways means following the furtive throughout—the disruptions of belonging and the makings of new belongings. stash archives library lexicons Sexual Minorities Archives ...

... If ethnography is the writing of life in its varied worlds, what forms must it take in addressing itself to the escalating and varied forms of mass death? This chapter explores the death of form(s) as an analogue for writing about mass death. It revisits a vexed conjuncture between ethnography...