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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Difference, Becoming, Multiplicity -- 1 Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze -- 2 Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze -- 3 Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-Imperceptible -- Part II Psychoanalysis and Sociality -- 4 Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett's Gallery of Moribunds -- 5 'Till ooze again and on': Textual Desire and the Subject's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze, Lacan)

The exiled character in need of asylum is a recurrent theme in ancient Greek tragedy. In many of these plays, we see uprooted and homeless persons seeking sanctuary, and for the ancient Greeks, hospitality was an important issue. Many of these plays have been updated to comment on the current social and political conditions of refugees and often reflect on the notion of hospitality, something which both Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida considered to be fundamental to ethics. Recently there has been a series of demonstrations and occupations of public spaces by asylum seekers that has gained considerable news coverage. In Austria a group of about sixty refugees (from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area) occupied the famous Votiv church in the middle of Vienna in 2012 and went on hunger strike. In Germany a large group of asylum seekers marched from various parts of the country to Berlin where they occupied the square at the Brandenburg Gate before being allowed to establish a tent community in Kreuzberg. In Hamburg a group of 80 asylum seekers who came to Germany via Lampedusa found refuge in St Pauli church, and it was there that Nicholas Stemann presented a first reading of Elfriede Jelinkek's play Die Schutzbefohlenen in September 2013. More recently right-wing groups have mounted weekly marches through Dresden to call for a halt to immigration, and these have been contested by simultaneous counter-demonstrations in favour of immigrants and refugees. In this paper I will consider several adaptations of Greek tragedy that highlight cultural encounters between the local population and those arriving from abroad who are looking for asylum. In particular I will examine Stemann's production that has been running at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg since September 2014, and features asylum seekers from Lampedusa on stage who beg the audience for the right to remain in Germany.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Politics, Biopolitics, and Biophilosophy -- 1 From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power -- 2 Posthuman Affirmative Politics -- 3 Rethinking Biopolitics: The New Materialism and the Political Economy of Life -- 4 From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy, or the Vanishing Subject of Biopolitics -- Part II Life, Bioethics, and Bioart -- 5 Chimerism and Immunitas: The Emergence of a Posthumanist Biophilosophy -- 6 Resisting Biopolitics, Resisting Freedom: Prenatal Testing and Choice -- 7 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century -- 8 The Biopolitics of Life Removed from Context: Neolifism -- Part III Surveillance and Digital Technologies -- 9 Questioned by Machines: A Cultural Perspective on Counter-Terrorism and Lie Detection in Security Zones -- 10 Data Doubles and the Specters of Performance in the Bit Parts of Surveillance -- 11 Digital Biopolitics: The Image of Life -- 12 The Object of Desire of the Machine and the Biopolitics of the Posthuman -- Part IV Societies of Control -- 13 At the Systemic Edge: Expulsions -- 14 From the "Bio" to the "Necro": The Human at the Border -- 15 Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland's Unwed Mothers -- 16 Israel/Palestine: State of Exception and Acts of Resistance -- List of Contributors -- Index.