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Re-Imagining a Politics of Life Re-Imagining a Politics of Life From Governance of Order to Politics of Movement Leonie Ansems de Vries London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StanneryStreet,LondonSE114AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andPlymouth(UK) www.rowman.com Copyright©2015byLeonieAnsemsdeVries Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-78348-100-2 ISBN:PB978-1-78348-101-9 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Vries,LeonieAnsemsde. Re-imaginingapoliticsoflife:fromgovernanceofordertopoliticsofmovement/LeonieAnsems deVries. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-1-78348-100-2(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-78348-101-9(pbk.:alk.paper)— ISBN978-1-78348-102-6(ebook) 1.Politicalscience—Philosophy.2.State,The.I.Title. JA71.V752015 320.01—dc23 2014029840 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Prologue vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction:PoliticsofLife xi 1 Sovereignty,War,Nature 1 2 Mechanics,Movement,Organisation 21 3 Biology,Security,Life 47 4 Circulation,Naturalisation,(De)Politicisation 63 5 Complexity,Relationality,Involution 81 6 Politics,Life,Movement 111 Bibliography 131 Index 141 v Prologue We start somewhere in the middle, in the midst of things, in a play of movements and relations. The beginning, our starting point, is an ab- stractionfromacomplexmilieuofmobileandrelationalforces.Amilieu of connectivities, continuously changing, continuously becoming differ- ent as elements and forces connect, detach, split and mix; a milieu of settlement,inwhichlinesaredrawntodemarcateandcategorisespaces, entities and identities. Movements and categories that continue to be- comeundoneandreasserted—similarlyordifferently.Weemergesome- where in the middle. As Deleuze (1988:123) puts it: ‘One never com- mences;oneneverhasatabularasa;oneslipsin,entersinthemiddle[au milieu].’ Couldwereimagineapoliticsoflifealongtheselines? vii

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