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r-~·· I BEYOND BIOPOLITICS r-~·· I BEYOND BIOPOLITICS .. Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Wiltse, eds. BEYOND BIOPOLITICS Essays on the Governance of Life and Death Duke University Press Durham and London 2011 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER .. Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Wiltse, eds. BEYOND BIOPOLITICS Essays on the Governance of Life and Death Duke University Press Durham and London 2011 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Unexceptional Control: Governance, Race, and Population Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper@! 1. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Brian Massumi 19 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the 2. Human Security/National Security: Gender Branding and last printed page of this book. Population Racism Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse 6 A version of Chapter 1, "National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology 4 of Powers," by Brian Massumi, appeared in 'Iheory, Culture K. Society 26:6 (2009) and 3· "The Turban Is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling is printed by permission of the publisher, SA<i E Publications. ]asbir Puar 65 A version of Chapter 2, "!Iuman Security/National Security: Gender Branding and Population Racism," by Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, appeared in Social 4· Strict Scrutiny: "lhe Tragedy of Constitutional Law Text 105 28:4 (2010) and is printed by permission of the publisher, Duke University Sora Y. Han 106 Press. A version of Chapter 3, "'"!he Turban Is Not a Hat': Queer Diaspora and Practices of Preemption: Death and Life-Itself Profiling," by Jasbir K. Puar, appeared in Terronst Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Time) (2007) and is printed by permission of the publisher, Duke University Press. 5· Necrologies; or, the Death of the Body Politic A version of Chapter 4, "Strict Scrutiny: ·!he Tragedy of Constitutional Law," by Eugene Thacker 139 Sora Y. Han, ;:tppcarcd in Stan_f0rdjourna1 oJCivil Rights and Civil Liberties 4: I (2oo8) and is printed by permission of the journal. 6. Mnemonic Control A version of Chapter 8, "Strange Circulations: 'lhe Blood Economy in Rural China," Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman 163 by Ann S. Anagnost, appeared in Economy and Society 31=4 (2oo6) and is reprinted by 7· Thanato-tactics permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Eyal Weizman 177 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Unexceptional Control: Governance, Race, and Population Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper@! 1. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Brian Massumi 19 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the 2. Human Security/National Security: Gender Branding and last printed page of this book. Population Racism Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse 6 A version of Chapter 1, "National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology 4 of Powers," by Brian Massumi, appeared in 'Iheory, Culture K. Society 26:6 (2009) and 3· "The Turban Is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling is printed by permission of the publisher, SA<i E Publications. ]asbir Puar 65 A version of Chapter 2, "!Iuman Security/National Security: Gender Branding and Population Racism," by Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, appeared in Social 4· Strict Scrutiny: "lhe Tragedy of Constitutional Law Text 105 28:4 (2010) and is printed by permission of the publisher, Duke University Sora Y. Han 106 Press. A version of Chapter 3, "'"!he Turban Is Not a Hat': Queer Diaspora and Practices of Preemption: Death and Life-Itself Profiling," by Jasbir K. Puar, appeared in Terronst Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Time) (2007) and is printed by permission of the publisher, Duke University Press. 5· Necrologies; or, the Death of the Body Politic A version of Chapter 4, "Strict Scrutiny: ·!he Tragedy of Constitutional Law," by Eugene Thacker 139 Sora Y. Han, ;:tppcarcd in Stan_f0rdjourna1 oJCivil Rights and Civil Liberties 4: I (2oo8) and is printed by permission of the journal. 6. Mnemonic Control A version of Chapter 8, "Strange Circulations: 'lhe Blood Economy in Rural China," Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman 163 by Ann S. Anagnost, appeared in Economy and Society 31=4 (2oo6) and is reprinted by 7· Thanato-tactics permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Eyal Weizman 177 Transforming Value: The Measure of Life Capacities 8. Strange Circulations Ann S. Anagnost 213 g. Necropoli tical Surveillance: Immigrants from Turkey in Germany ~a.ijatay Topal 238 10. From the Race War to the War on Terror Randy Martin 258 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART !V Technological Investments: Temporality, Media, and Methodologies 11. "Seeing" Spectral Agencies: An Analysis of Lin+Lam and Unidentified Vietnam Una Chung 277 12. Here We Accrete Durations: Toward a Practice oflntervals Many of the chapters in this book are elaborations of presentations in the Perceptual Mode of Power given at a symposium held at the Graduate Center, City University Am itS. Rai 306 of New York (cuNY), in 2oo6. We are thankful for the support of 13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe the Center for the Study of Women and Society, which hosted the May joseph 332 symposium, and the Graduate Center, for funding the event. We are 14. Blackness and Governance especially grateful to all those who participated in the symposium, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney 351 and from whom we learned so much. Many graduate students and faculty at CUNY have made possible Bibliography 363 the ongoing elaboration of social theory and social criticism that Contributors 381 has informed this collection. In light of that effort, we happily thank Index 385 each other. This collection represents the work we did together when we were first active at the Center for the Study of Women and Society (Patricia was director and Craig a fellow) and now as fellow sociolo gists. Doing the work of scholarship together proved rewarding and productive. We also thank our current and former colleagues at CUNY, espe cially Neil Smith, David Kajanzian, Michelle Fine, Joe Rollins, Vic toria Taylor Pitts, Soniya Munshi, Greg Goldberg, Jean Halley, Hosu Kim, Jonathan Cutler, Jacqueline Berman, Jeff Bussolini, Ananya Mukherjea, Grace M. Cho, Lauren Jade Martin, Una Chung, Jamie Skye Bianco, Rachel Schiff, Mitra Rastegar, Sam Han, Elizabeth Bullock, Aaron Weeks, Kate Jenkins, Kim Cunningham, Deborah Gambs, and Karen Gregory. We thank as well our friends and col leagues from our wider circles whose support and thoughtful en- Transforming Value: The Measure of Life Capacities 8. Strange Circulations Ann S. Anagnost 213 g. Necropoli tical Surveillance: Immigrants from Turkey in Germany ~a.ijatay Topal 238 10. From the Race War to the War on Terror Randy Martin 258 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART !V Technological Investments: Temporality, Media, and Methodologies 11. "Seeing" Spectral Agencies: An Analysis of Lin+Lam and Unidentified Vietnam Una Chung 277 12. Here We Accrete Durations: Toward a Practice oflntervals Many of the chapters in this book are elaborations of presentations in the Perceptual Mode of Power given at a symposium held at the Graduate Center, City University Am itS. Rai 306 of New York (cuNY), in 2oo6. We are thankful for the support of 13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe the Center for the Study of Women and Society, which hosted the May joseph 332 symposium, and the Graduate Center, for funding the event. We are 14. Blackness and Governance especially grateful to all those who participated in the symposium, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney 351 and from whom we learned so much. Many graduate students and faculty at CUNY have made possible Bibliography 363 the ongoing elaboration of social theory and social criticism that Contributors 381 has informed this collection. In light of that effort, we happily thank Index 385 each other. This collection represents the work we did together when we were first active at the Center for the Study of Women and Society (Patricia was director and Craig a fellow) and now as fellow sociolo gists. Doing the work of scholarship together proved rewarding and productive. We also thank our current and former colleagues at CUNY, espe cially Neil Smith, David Kajanzian, Michelle Fine, Joe Rollins, Vic toria Taylor Pitts, Soniya Munshi, Greg Goldberg, Jean Halley, Hosu Kim, Jonathan Cutler, Jacqueline Berman, Jeff Bussolini, Ananya Mukherjea, Grace M. Cho, Lauren Jade Martin, Una Chung, Jamie Skye Bianco, Rachel Schiff, Mitra Rastegar, Sam Han, Elizabeth Bullock, Aaron Weeks, Kate Jenkins, Kim Cunningham, Deborah Gambs, and Karen Gregory. We thank as well our friends and col leagues from our wider circles whose support and thoughtful en- gagement made this work possible, especially Dean Spade, Christina Han hardt, Kerwin Kaye, Beth Bernstein, Em Thuma, Jackie Orr, Vivian Nixon, Patricia Ticineto Clough Anahid Kassabian, Amit Rai, Joseph Schneider, Steven Seidman, Anne Hoff and Craig Wiltse man, Norman Denzin, Jasbir Puar, Stefano Harney, and Bruce Reis. To our families we also send thanks: Christopher Martin Clough, Elizabeth Hariss Clough, and Lucy Nash Clough, as well as the Steppe family, the Willse family, the Spade-Goldschmidt-Lenz family, and David Proterra. Finally, we would like to thank everyone at Duke University Press-Ken BEYOND BIOPOLITICS Wissoker, Sharon Torian, Courtney Berger, Jade Brooks, Neal McTighe, Jeff The Governance of Life and Death Canaday, and Christine Choi. We especially wish to thank J. Reynolds Smith, who stood behind this work from the start. Both in the United States and around the world, neoliberalism con tinues to raise difficult questions about the rightful conduct of the state. This is in part because in neoliberalism an extralegal admin istrative discourse has turned the legitimacy of governance over to technical systems of compliance and efficiency that underwrite the relationship of the state and the economy with a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. From the very start of Barack Obama's ad ministration, for example, there was an intensification of an admin istrative and bureaucratic legality, even though the administration was set to reformulate neoliberalism. In the first few months of 2009, the administration responded to the debate regarding prac tices of torture authorized and administered by U.S. government and military officials during the Bush regime's "war on terror." The practice of water boarding was particularly controversial. While public knowledge of waterboarding already existed, a series of events-Attorney General Eric Holder's unequivocal comment during a confirmation hearing on January 16, 2009, that waterboard ing is torture, Obama's issuance of an executive order on January 22, 2009, banning the use of harsh interrogation tactics, and the release in April2009 of the so-called torture memos-coalesced to produce calls for the investigation and possible prosecution of Bush admin istration officials who had authorized waterboarding. While some members of the Obama administration voiced an interest in "mov- viii Acknowledgments gagement made this work possible, especially Dean Spade, Christina Han hardt, Kerwin Kaye, Beth Bernstein, Em Thuma, Jackie Orr, Vivian Nixon, Patricia Ticineto Clough Anahid Kassabian, Amit Rai, Joseph Schneider, Steven Seidman, Anne Hoff and Craig Wiltse man, Norman Denzin, Jasbir Puar, Stefano Harney, and Bruce Reis. To our families we also send thanks: Christopher Martin Clough, Elizabeth Hariss Clough, and Lucy Nash Clough, as well as the Steppe family, the Willse family, the Spade-Goldschmidt-Lenz family, and David Proterra. Finally, we would like to thank everyone at Duke University Press-Ken BEYOND BIOPOLITICS Wissoker, Sharon Torian, Courtney Berger, Jade Brooks, Neal McTighe, Jeff The Governance of Life and Death Canaday, and Christine Choi. We especially wish to thank J. Reynolds Smith, who stood behind this work from the start. Both in the United States and around the world, neoliberalism con tinues to raise difficult questions about the rightful conduct of the state. This is in part because in neoliberalism an extralegal admin istrative discourse has turned the legitimacy of governance over to technical systems of compliance and efficiency that underwrite the relationship of the state and the economy with a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. From the very start of Barack Obama's ad ministration, for example, there was an intensification of an admin istrative and bureaucratic legality, even though the administration was set to reformulate neoliberalism. In the first few months of 2009, the administration responded to the debate regarding prac tices of torture authorized and administered by U.S. government and military officials during the Bush regime's "war on terror." The practice of water boarding was particularly controversial. While public knowledge of waterboarding already existed, a series of events-Attorney General Eric Holder's unequivocal comment during a confirmation hearing on January 16, 2009, that waterboard ing is torture, Obama's issuance of an executive order on January 22, 2009, banning the use of harsh interrogation tactics, and the release in April2009 of the so-called torture memos-coalesced to produce calls for the investigation and possible prosecution of Bush admin istration officials who had authorized waterboarding. While some members of the Obama administration voiced an interest in "mov- viii Acknowledgments
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