The Practice of Everyday Death
On the Paratactical “Life” of Neo-liberal Biopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895043 |
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| Authors | Stuart J Murray (0000-0001-8850-5406, Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262-280 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2021-017 |
| OpenAlex | W4214879546 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
As a critical counter-reading of Michel de Certeau’s classic text, The Practice of Everyday Life, this essay argues that today, in the age of neo-liberal biopolitics, it is death that is quotidian. While “life” itself now figures as the paratactical and memetic ruse of our dominant order, the essay problematizes conventional forms of tactical resistance, claiming that resistance is often complicitous and has been co-opted in advance. It is death that must henceforth inform our struggles to make (a) life in the ruins. Examples of racialized deaths suggest a rhetorical agency, and a rallying cry, for political protest and resistance beyond the tactics of a progressive embourgeoisement
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Biopower · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Highly cited | No |
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