Futureless Futures: Biopower, Catastrophe, and the Tragedy of the New Millennium 公开

Taylor, Noah (Spring 2022)

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The twenty-first century marks a period of profound contradiction. On the one hand, our lives are subject to unprecedented control, surveillance, and political investment; on the other, our species faces a steady march toward extinction. In placing these two terms side by side, I explore Foucauldian biopower and its complicity in what Mark Fisher calls “the slow cancellation of the future.” I argue that, in the face of millennial threats, biopower has been left with nothing to say, a function of its constituent status within systems of capitalist production and extraction.

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Introduction.................................................................................................1

Chapter 1: “A History of the Present”...................................................................4

Chapter 2: Millennial Eschatologies.....................................................................15

Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Power...........................................................................31

Coda..........................................................................................................39

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