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Stuart Murray is a beautiful writer and a meticulous thinker. Each of the case studies in this pathbreaking book offers a moving close-up designed to challenge biopolitics from the inside, mounting a defense against its ontologizing of life by homing in on the death that it necessitates. Murray invites the dead and dying to haunt the logics and spaces of biopolitical life and (so) exposes 'our' complicity in a regime that delivers death in the name of life. -Diane Davis, author of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

A meticulously conceptualized and eloquently argued ethico-rhetorical critique of neoliberal modernity and an impassioned disaffirmation of its biopolitical rationality. Murray excuses no one, least of all himself, from complicity in the necessarily lethal but disavowed infrastructural conditions and social norms of our economic and political present. Making live and letting die: A necessarily twinned, fateful, but cunningly intransitive symmetry. This is a book not just to be read and then read again, but also to be thought about for a very long time. -Barbara A. Biesecker, author of Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change Stuart Murray is a beautiful writer and a meticulous thinker. Each of the case studies in this pathbreaking book offers a moving close-up designed to challenge biopolitics from the inside, mounting a defense against its ontologizing of life by homing in on the death that it necessitates. Murray invites the dead and dying to haunt the logics and spaces of biopolitical life and (so) exposes 'our' complicity in a regime that delivers death in the name of life. -Diane Davis, author of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

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Stuart J. Murray is Professor of Rhetoric and Ethics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Health Sciences and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture.

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