Joseph Pugliese: 2 books

Book cover of State Violence and the Execution of Law

State Violence and the Execution of Law

Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones

by Joseph Pugliese
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the...
Book cover of Biometrics

Biometrics

Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

by Joseph Pugliese
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns...
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