Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

1. Post-Politics: A Theoretical Intervention

2. Sovereignty

3. Discipline and the Birth of Neoliberal Governmentality

4. Societies of Neoliberal Control

5. Age of Spite/Revisiting Terrorism

6. Post-Politics to Political Spirituality

Afterword

References

Index

About the Author

Ali Rıza Taşkale is currently an Assistant Professor of Social and Political Sciences at Hacettepe University, Turkey. His research fields are social and political theory, political philosophy, cinema and political theology. His articles have been published in Society & Space, Theory, Culture & Society and Journal for Cultural Research, along with a number of book chapters in edited volumes.

Reviews

'A very forceful and compelling argument as to the post-political nature of neoliberal societies' - Julian Reid, University of Lapland, Finland'In this theoretically sophisticated and wide-ranging book, Taskale shows how regimes of power are consolidated and work through affective logics. With a historically informed analysis and rich illustrative examples, he explores contemporary politics and shows why it fails to deliver.' - Professor Mustafa Dikeç, Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris and LATTS