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Signy Gutnick-Allen returns to the puzzle of punishment in Hobbes’ political thought, considering how early modern theories of representation sit in tension with the sovereign right to punish. Nader Sadre explores the spatial character of Locke’s ‘highway’ to investigate how state violence controls citizens and non-citizens alike in a commonwealth. Lastly, Daniel Zimmer turns to Foucault’s biopower lectures and other writings and interviews to interpret Foucault’s thinking on how the atomic bomb altered the terrain of inter-state violence. What happens when states have the power to kill life itself?
Representation and Punishment in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes - Signy Thora Gutnick Allen, London School of Economics
The Blind Spot in Biopolitics: Michel Foucault and the Power to Kill Life Itself - Daniel Zimmer, Cornell University
Montesquieu’s Concern for the Inherent Danger of a State’s Despotism and His View on the Countervailing Forces Against State Violence and the Outbreak of Violent Conflict - Dirk Schuck, University of Erfurt