Biopolitics in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, “The Part About the Crimes”

Starting from Agamben’s theories of state of exception, and sovereignty and subalternity, this article looks at Roberto Bolaño’s 2004 novel, 2666, as a critique of neoliberal capitalism, where the law is predicated on violence and exploitation of surplus humanity—in this case, the poor female maquil...

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Main Author: Camelia Raghinaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2016-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/7182