The Living from the Dead

The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics, Volume 1, is a scholarly examination of the intersection between life, death, and power. Stuart J. Murray analyzes how modern societies safeguard certain lives while tolerating the deaths of others through sacrificial economies. This work of biopolitics and rhetoric explores the structural conditions of biopower by focusing on those whom society has let die.

Through transdisciplinary case studies, the author examines COVID-19 pandemic resistance, hunger strikes, and legal battles over childhood deaths. The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics, Volume 1, argues that active resistance often reproduces the same tropes of control. By proposing a stance of disaffirmation, this text provides a nuanced critique of control and language. It serves as a rigorous resource for students and scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and biopolitique.