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dc.contributor.authorRichter, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-29T01:06:35Z
dc.date.available2019-10-29T01:06:35Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-01
dc.identifier.citationRichter , H 2019 , ' The Eroticization of Biopower : Masochistic relationality and resistance in Deleuze and Agamben ' , European Journal of Social Theory , vol. 22 , no. 3 , pp. 382-398 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431018805379
dc.identifier.issn1461-7137
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/21808
dc.description.abstractThis article examines Gilles Deleuze’s and Giorgio Agamben’s thoughts on the immanent creativity emergent from formal, impersonal life as a pathway for resistance to biopolitics. In Coldness and Cruelty, Deleuze explores masochism as the inversion of the sadistic, biopolitical use of the body which can bring forth genuinely new expressions. Agamben dismisses masochistic creativity because it leaves the dialectical ontology of biopower intact to conceptualize his form-of-life as a space of indiscernibility between ontological essence and legal-political actualization. For Agamben, the form-of-life escapes biopolitical capture because it is absolutely detached from its relations. This article argues that the radicalness of this detachment calls into question the political capacity offered by the form-of-life to actively change the relations of biopower. Against this background, Deleuze’s masochistic eroticization of power offers an alternative conceptualization of relationality as external to its terms and productive of expressions which are both thoroughly immanent and genuinely creative.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Social Theory
dc.subjectBiopolitics
dc.subjectDeleuze
dc.subjectAgamben
dc.subjectRelationality
dc.subjectResistance
dc.subjectcreative formalism
dc.subjectlife
dc.subjectresistance
dc.subjectrelational ontology
dc.subjectSociology and Political Science
dc.titleThe Eroticization of Biopower : Masochistic relationality and resistance in Deleuze and Agambenen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionCritical Humanities and International Politics Research Group
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