Download or read book Beyond Biopolitics written by Francois Debrix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era.This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme. Debrix and Barder mobilize different concepts-horror, agonal sovereignty, the pulverization of the flesh, or the notion of an inhumanity-to-come-to shed light on past and prese.