The Practice of Everyday Death: On the Paratactical "Life" of Neo-liberal Biopolitics.
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...
| Published in: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 262 - 281 |
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University of Toronto Press
Dec2022
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