The Liberal Way of War
Killing to Make Life Live
Published by: Routledge
ISBN: 9780203882542
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 196
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 9780203882542
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 196
Edition: First Edition
Book Summary
The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being; what the book calls 'the biohuman'. Tracking the advent of the age of life-as-information - complex, adaptive and emergent - while contrasting biopolitics with geopolitics, the book details how and why the liberal way of rule wages war on the human in the cause of instituting the biohuman. Contingent and emergent, the biohuman is however continuously also becoming-dangerous to itself. It therefore requires constant surveillance to anticipate the threats it presents to its own flourishing. The book explains how, in making life live, liberal rule finds its expression, today, in making the biohuman live the emergency of its emergence. Thus does liberal peace become the continuation of war by other means. Just as the information and molecular revolutions have combined to transform liberal military-strategic thinking so also has it contributed to the discourse of global danger through which global liberal governance currently legitimates the liberal way of war. LIST OF READINGS
Introduction: From Liberal Conscience to Liberal Rule
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171448 | 11pp | Copyright Fee: $1.32
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War
From the Liberal Subject to the Biohuman
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171449 | 19pp | Copyright Fee: $2.28
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War in the Age of Biohumanity
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171450 | 21pp | Copyright Fee: $2.52
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Informationalizing Life
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171451 | 23pp | Copyright Fee: $2.76
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War
Global Triage: Threat Perception in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171452 | 25pp | Copyright Fee: $3.00
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War
Military Transformation in the Age of Life As Information
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171453 | 21pp | Copyright Fee: $2.52
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War
Biohumanity and Its Rogues: Securing the Infrastructures of Liberal Living
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171454 | 20pp | Copyright Fee: $2.40
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War
Conclusion: Good for Nothing
Michael Dillon, Julian ReidID: s171455 | 10pp | Copyright Fee: $1.20
Source Title: The Liberal Way of War

