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Economies of Violence in Modern Statecraft

Sun, October 3, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), TBA

Session Submission Type: In-Person Created Panel

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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?

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