Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Timothy C. Campbell, "Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben "
English | ISBN: 0816674655 | 2011 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 546 KB
English | ISBN: 0816674655 | 2011 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 546 KB
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbell’s dexterous inquiry-as-intervention.
Campbell argues that a “crypto-thanatopolitics” can be teased out of Heidegger’s critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopolitics—including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijk—have been substantively influenced by Heidegger’s thought, particularly his reading of proper and improper writing. In fact, Campbell shows how all of these philosophers have pointed toward a tragic, thanatopolitical destination as somehow an inevitable result of technology. But in
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