Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

This book is a meditation on and an attempt to understand suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge: the decade between 2001 and 2011, from the suicidal mission of Muhammad Atta and his band in the United States to the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 in Tunisia. After the former a devastating military strike and occupation of two Muslim countries commenced, and after the latter a massive transnational democratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137264128
• ISBN13: 9781137264121
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"