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Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
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Campbell argues that a “crypto-thanatopolitics” can be teased out of Heidegger’s critique of technology and that some of the leading scholars of biopoliticsincluding Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Peter Sloterdijkhave 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
he articulates a corrective biopolitics that can begin with rereadings of Foucault (especially his late work regarding the care and technologies of the self), Freud (notably his writings on the drives and negation), and Gilles Deleuze (particularly in the relation of attention to aesthetics).
Throughout
, Campbell insists that biopolitics can become more positive and productively asserts an affirmative
not thought through thanatos but rather practiced through
.