“Life” and the Rhetoric of the Multitude

dc.contributor.authorMurray, Stuart J.
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-20T20:18:17Z
dc.date.available2015-11-20T20:18:17Z
dc.date.copyright2005en_US
dc.date.issued2005-03-16
dc.description.abstractThis presentation joins the conversation concerning the changing value and meaning of the term “life,” bios. Specifically, by what terms, whose grammar, which techniques and technologies, are we coming to understand “life” in the contemporary scene? I will turn to Foucault’s late work on ethics as the “care of the self,” which is characterized as that style of life that unfolds in the self’s transformative relation to itself. I contend that in this shift from biopolitics to bioethics, Foucault employs two antithetical notions of life. It is the latter, relational, notion of life that I read alongside Italian theorist Paolo Virno’s recent work, A Grammar of the Multitude (2004). Stuart Murray received his PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently holds a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he is also a Senior Fellow at The McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theoryen_US
dc.identifier.citationMurray, Stuart J. "“Life” and the Rhetoric of the Multitude." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. March 16 2005. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2005/03/life-and-the-rhetoric-of-the-multitude/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6825
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSeminarsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectbiosen_US
dc.subjectrhetoricen_US
dc.subjectmultitudeen_US
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten_US
dc.subjectcare of the selfen_US
dc.subjectbiopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectbioethicsen_US
dc.subjectPaolo Virnoen_US
dc.title“Life” and the Rhetoric of the Multitudeen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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