Rick Elmore is an associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University.Ege Selin Islekel is an assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

“Is it possible to theorize a deconstructive biopolitics? The political stakes of the Foucault-Derrida debate have never been clearer or more urgent. This spectacular group of writers opens a vital conversation about border zones and hunger strikes; detention centers and supermax prisons; Blackness, criminality, and necropolitics. Speaking from the heart of a prison society, it teaches us how to summon a world without prisons. A must-read book.” —Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault’s Strange Eros

• AcknowledgmentsEditors’ IntroductionPart I. Punishment and Sacrifice: Death Penalty and the Penitentiary1. Biopolitics and the Politics of Sacrifice: Derrida on Life, Life Death, and the Death Penalty - Michael Naas2. Posthuman and Postanimal Futures or the Possibilities of a Deconstructive Biopolitics - Rick Elmore3. Blood on Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands - Brad Elliott Stone4. Foucault and the Biopolitics of the Penitentiary: Death in/by Incarceration - Ege Selin IslekelPart II. Taking Lives, Letting Die: Biopolitics of Race5. Making Die or Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee Crisis - Kelly Oliver6. Counting Heads: Reason, The Human, and Capital Punishment(s) - MarÍa de la Cruz Salvador LÓpez7. From the Will to Race to Hygienic Feminism: Race, State, Habit - Tamsin KimotoPart III. Resistance in Action8. Fearless Lives: Parrhesia in a Biopolitical Frame - Sarah Hansen9. The Silent Exception: Hunger Striking and Lip-Sewing - Banu Bargu10. The Etymology of Unity - Janos Toevs

Rick Elmore is an associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University.Ege Selin Islekel is an assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

“Is it possible to theorize a deconstructive biopolitics? The political stakes of the Foucault-Derrida debate have never been clearer or more urgent. This spectacular group of writers opens a vital conversation about border zones and hunger strikes; detention centers and supermax prisons; Blackness, criminality, and necropolitics. Speaking from the heart of a prison society, it teaches us how to summon a world without prisons. A must-read book.” —Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault’s Strange Eros

• AcknowledgmentsEditors’ IntroductionPart I. Punishment and Sacrifice: Death Penalty and the Penitentiary1. Biopolitics and the Politics of Sacrifice: Derrida on Life, Life Death, and the Death Penalty - Michael Naas2. Posthuman and Postanimal Futures or the Possibilities of a Deconstructive Biopolitics - Rick Elmore3. Blood on Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands - Brad Elliott Stone4. Foucault and the Biopolitics of the Penitentiary: Death in/by Incarceration - Ege Selin IslekelPart II. Taking Lives, Letting Die: Biopolitics of Race5. Making Die or Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee Crisis - Kelly Oliver6. Counting Heads: Reason, The Human, and Capital Punishment(s) - MarÍa de la Cruz Salvador LÓpez7. From the Will to Race to Hygienic Feminism: Race, State, Habit - Tamsin KimotoPart III. Resistance in Action8. Fearless Lives: Parrhesia in a Biopolitical Frame - Sarah Hansen9. The Silent Exception: Hunger Striking and Lip-Sewing - Banu Bargu10. The Etymology of Unity - Janos Toevs