Death and Other Penalties

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Contents Introduction: Death and Other Penalties Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman 1 Part I. Legacies of Slavery Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition Brady Heiner 000 From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration James Manos 000 Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell Maroon Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz 000 Part II. Death Penalties In Reality-from the Row Derrick Quintero 000 Inheritances of the Death Penalty: American Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty Geoffrey Adelsberg 000 Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making Good Death a Good Penalty Kelly Oliver 000 Death Penalty Abolition in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security Andrew Dilts 000 On the Inviolability of Human Life Julia Kristeva (translated by Lisa Walsh) 000 Part III. Rethinking Power and Responsibility Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis Benjamin S. Yost 000 Prisons and Palliative Politics Ami Harbin 000 Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants Matt S. Whitt 000 Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security Andrea Smith 000 Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference Sarah Tyson 000 Part IV. Isolation and Resistance Statement on Solitary Confinement Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman 000 The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space Adrian Switzer 000 Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry Shokoufeh Sakhi 000 Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture Liat Ben-Moshe, Che Gossett, Nick Mitchell, and Eric A. Stanley 000 Notes 000 List of Contributors 000 Index 000