{"product_id":"the-politics-of-immunity-mark-neocleous-9781839764837","title":"The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The obsession intensifies with every new crisis and the mobilization of yet more powers of war and police, from quarantine to border closures and from vaccination certificates to immunological surveillance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngaging four key concepts with enormous cultural weight - Cell, Self, System and Sovereignty - \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e moves from philosophical biology to intellectual history and from critical theory to psychoanalysis to expose the politics underpinning the way immunity is imagined. At the heart of this imagination is the way security has come to dominate the whole realm of human experience. From biological cell to political subject, and from physiological system to the social body, immunity folds into security, just as security folds into immunity. The book thus opens into a critique of the violence of security and spells out immunity's tendency towards self-destruction and death: immunity, like security, can turn its aggression inwards, into the autoimmune disorder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWide-ranging and polemical, \u003ci\u003ePolitics of Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e lays down a major challenge to the ways in which the immunity of the self and the social are imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Neocleous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 183976483X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839764837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Mark Neocleous","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995411611903,"sku":"9781839764837","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82ac17d8-821f-4577-92a9-bb667c2fecce.jpg?v=1683335669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-immunity-mark-neocleous-9781839764837","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}