ISBN : 9782296545458
SPECTRES OF BIOPOLITICS. THE WOUNDED MOVEMENT OF DISPLACEMENT
Introduction Contemporary politics creates forms of silence where singular bodies are transformed in organic spaces of annihilation. Men, women and children survive in spaces of abandonment - refugee camps, spaces of displacement, detention centers - where language is bound to the mutism of the body which folds onto itself, falling into a silence without childhood. The stateless persons, the refugees, the immigrants are inscribed in spaces of exception that bring forth a geography of fear. Within a multiplication of juridical and administrative boundaries determined by the immigration and population control policies, "displaced person" becomes the designation for a singular body converted into a biopolitical identity that freezes time and sterilizes space. However, inside these other spaces, it is possible to anticipate the intimacy of silence between body and t...