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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press
FORMAT: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781474417976
RRP: £19.99
PAGES: 352
PUBLICATION DATE:
October 31, 2016
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Plastic Sovereignties: Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics
Teacher of American Studies in the School of Critical Studies Arne De Boever
Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.
Teacher of American Studies in the School of Critical Studies Arne De Boever
Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
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