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(Auto)immunity, Social Theory, and the ‘Political’

 

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1 Esposito, Immunitas, 164.

2 Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” 255.

3 Esposito, Bios, 32. Emphasis added.

4 Ibid., 188.

5 Ibid., 186.

6 Ibid., 187.

7 Thacker, After Life, 234. For my further reservations, see Wolfe, Before the Law, 59-60.

8 Esposito, Terms of the Political, 41.

9 Esposito, Immunitas, 127.

10 Noë, Out of Our Heads, 43.

11 Esposito, Immunitas, 47.

12 Luhmann, Social Systems, 25-26.

13 Namely, in Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism?

14 Luhmann, Social Systems, 26.

15 Ibid., 61.

16 Ibid., 67.

17 Moeller, The Radical Luhmann, 70-71.

18 Ibid., 72.

19 Flaxman, “The Unfinished Business of Control,” n.p.

20 Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 373.

21 Lambert, “How ‘Power Makes Us See and Speak’,” n.p.

22 Galloway and Thacker, The Exploit, 53.

23 Quoted in Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism?, 115.

24 Esposito, Immunitas, 47.

25 Ibid., 50.

26 Foucault, “Power Affects the Body,” 211.

27 Bryant, “Of Parts and Politics: Onticology and Queer Politics,” n.p.

28 Ibid.

29 Ibid.

30 Bateson, Steps, 373.

31 Bryant, “Of Parts and Politics,” n. p.

32 Ibid.

33 King and Thornhill, Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Politics and Law, 72.

34 Derrida, Rogues, 33.

35 Rasch, Sovereignty and Its Discontents, 6, 8.

36 Naas, Derrida from Now On, 136.

37 Derrida, Rogues, 13.

38 Rasch, Sovereignty and Its Discontents, 9.

39 Ibid., 147.

40 Ibid., 41.

41 Ibid., 92.

42 Esposito, Immunitas, 174.

43 Quoted in Moeller, The Radical Luhmann, 27-8.

44 King and Thornhill, Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Politics and Law, 77.

45 Ibid., 70.

46 Ibid., 71.

47 Campbell, “Genres of the Political,” n.p.

48 Esposito, “Preface to Categories of the Impolitical,” 102.

49 Ibid., 104.

50 Ibid., 103.

51 Campbell, “Genres of the Political,” n.p.

52 Burke, Attitudes Toward History, 170.

53 Quoted in McGowan, Pragmatist Politics, 149.

54 McGowan, “Kenneth Burke,” 245.

55 See Esposito, Bios, 116.

56 McGowan, Pragmatist Politics, 153.

57 See in particular the 1984 afterword to Burke, Permanence and Change, 295-336.

58 See Esposito, Bios, 115-117.

59 Burke, Permanence and Change, 284.

60 Burke, Attitudes Toward History, 120, 114.

61 Burke, Permanence and Change, 272.

62 McGowan, Pragmatist Politics, 182.

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Cary Wolfe

Cary Wolfe’s books and edited collections include Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), the edited collection Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003) and most recently, What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010) and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago, 2013). He is founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, which has published nearly forty volumes by noted authors such as Donna Haraway, Roberto Esposito, Isabelle Stengers, Michel Serres, Vilem Flusser, and many others. He currently holds the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University, where he is also Founding Director of 3CT: The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. Email: [email protected]

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