Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the 'apolitical age', what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches - the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence - this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks. Drawing on different yet complementary methodologies (visual, performance, affect, and network analysis; historiography and ethnography), the contributors analyse cultural fetishes, taboos, sensorial and relational processes anchored in everyday practices, or cued by specific artworks. By mapping the necropolitics' affective cartography, they expand the concept beyond its teleological, anthropocentric, and reductive horizon of 'making and letting die' to include posthuman and posthumous actants, effectively arguing for the necropolitics' transformatory, political potential.
Prologue, Natasha Lushetich Part I: Sedimentations: Race and Gender Chapter 1: What is the Aesthetics of Necropolitics?, Marina Gr++ini-ç Chapter 2: Get Out: From Atlantic Slavery to Black Lives Matter, Sarah Juliet Lauro Chapter 3: Aesthetic Autonomy at the Border: Notes on Necro-Art, Verónica Tello Part II: Abstractions: Technological, Financial, Cultural, Scientific Chapter 4: Inside the Corpse of Abstraction, Franco Berardi Chapter 5: Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish, Jens Hauser Chapter 6: Desire, DNA, and Transgenetic Technology: Life After Necropolitics, Mi You Part III: Tactics: Detouring the Limits, Overbidding, Mourning Chapter 7: Necropolitics and the Dark Comedy of the Posthuman, Critical Art Ensemble Chapter 8: Dirty your Media: Artists' Experiments in Bio-Sovereignty, Tiffany Funk Chapter 9: Intimacy, Ignorance, and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement, Malin Palani Epilogue: Archipelagoes of the Unseen Islands of the Forgotten, May Joseph About the Contributors Index
Prologue, Natasha Lushetich Part I: Sedimentations: Race and Gender Chapter 1: What is the Aesthetics of Necropolitics?, Marina Grzinic Chapter 2: Get Out: From Atlantic Slavery to Black Lives Matter, Sarah Juliet Lauro Chapter 3: Aesthetic Autonomy at the Border: Notes on Necro-Art, Veronica Tello Part II: Abstractions: Technological, Financial, Cultural, Scientific Chapter 4: Inside the Corpse of Abstraction, Franco Berardi Chapter 5: Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish, Jens Hauser Chapter 6: Desire, DNA, and Transgenetic Technology: Life After Necropolitics, Mi You Part III: Tactics: Detouring the Limits, Overbidding, Mourning Chapter 7: Necropolitics and the Dark Comedy of the Posthuman, Critical Art Ensemble Chapter 8: Dirty your Media: Artists' Experiments in Bio-Sovereignty, Tiffany Funk Chapter 9: Intimacy, Ignorance, and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement, Malin Palani Epilogue: Archipelagoes of the Unseen Islands of the Forgotten, May Joseph About the Contributors Index
