Alive or Undead? Biopolitics between Esposito's Vitalism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

This article tries to establish a possible dialogue between the way in which two influential contemporary theories, Roberto Esposito's biopolitical theory and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis, approach racism and the constitution of Otherness. After summing up key concepts in Esposito's...

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