Professor Michael Dillon will give a public lecture at BSIS on Wednesday 3 December 14.00 – 16.00 entitled Bush, Blair and the Baroque: The Politics and Aesthetics of Sovereign Failure. The lecture will be chaired by Dr Philippe Bonditti, convenor of the Politics of International Development module at BSIS.
Michael Dillon is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Lancaster. He researches the problematisation of politics, security and war from the perspective of continental philosophy. He has been especially interested in what happens to the problematisation of security when security discourses and technologies take life rather than sovereign territoriality as their referent object. He has written extensively on security and war, international political theory, continental philosophy, and cultural research. He publishes widely in international relations as well as in cultural and political theory. Among his recent book publications are: Foucault on Politics, Security and War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008, co-editor Andrew Neal), The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (Routledge, 2009, co-author Julian Reid); and, Deconstructing International Politics (Routledge 2012). Forthcoming is, Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century: A Political Analytic of Finitude (Routledge). His latest essays include: ‘Specters of Biopolitics: Eschatology, Katechon and Resistance,’ The South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 2011; ‘Afterlife: Living Death to Political Spirituality,’ Millennium Journal of International Studies, 2013; and, ‘Segurança e modernidade: a infinitude da governance finita, (Security and Modernity: The Infinite Government of Finite Things)’ in Nildo Avelino and Salvo Vaccaro, eds. Governamentalidade Segurança, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Intermeios, 2013. Michael Dillon also co-edits The Journal of Cultural Research (Routledge).
Registration:
This event is free to attend.
Please register by sending an email to kentpubliclecture@gmail.com, stating your name and affiliation.
Venue
Wilson Room (3rd floor)
Brussels School of International Studies
University of Kent
Pleinlaan / Boulevard de la Plaine 5
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