Pushing at ‘Life's’ Pulls
A Response to the Vital Politics of Experience in Escape Routes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12162252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Munster (0000-0003-1100-2733, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 436-441 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking Marxism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08935696.2012.685282 |
| OpenAlex | W2092893921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this ‘review’ of Escape Routes, by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, and Vassilis Tsianos, I focus upon issues of ‘life’ and ‘experience’, examining the authors’ argument that experience is both primary and specific to contemporary control societies’ regime—that is, the regime of ‘life’ control. What is important here is that, while dealing with the problem of the pervasiveness of control over every aspect of life as the contemporary modality of power, the authors also carefully situate and historicize both ‘life’ and ‘experience’. But I also engage critically with their analyses of a number of aspects of contemporary life experience: namely, the network, representation, and language. I argue that we should always consider their heterogeneity rather than contrast them with and pit them against experience
Argument (complex analysis · Control (management · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Modality (human–computer interaction · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |