The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture and political violence
The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture and political violence
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暗杀的矛盾心理：生物政治、文化和政治暴力
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2012
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Kyle Grayson
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本文首先介绍了自由主义政权实施的暗杀和定点清除事件的生物政治叙述。它认为，政治暴力的形式可以在生命政治分析中通常享有特权的行政框架和技术合理化之外得到理解并变得有意义。它运用了艾伦·费尔德曼（Alan Feldman，1991）关于政治暴力是“精心策划的行动”的论点以及威廉·康诺利（William Connolly，2005）的共鸣概念，提供了关于暗杀形式如何在西方文化对政治暴力的理解中定位的谱系说明。研究的焦点是《圣经》中的女英雄朱迪思，她的故事作为一种首选叙事结构在西方公众中引起了共鸣，以理解暗杀行为并使其合法化。通过对《朱迪思》一书的阅读，本文强调了矛盾心理对于将暗杀理解为一种政治暴力形式的重要性。然后，朱迪思造成的道德问题的遗留问题与美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马 2011 年 5 月宣布击毙奥萨马·本·拉登的讲话有关。文章最后指出，尽管朱迪思的故事可能是当代暗杀行为的基础，但它也提供了一种批判性地参与暗杀行为的方法。
This article begins by presenting a biopolitical account of assassination and targeted killing events carried out by liberal regimes. It argues that forms of political violence are understood and made meaningful beyond the administrative frameworks and technical rationalizations often privileged in biopolitical analyses. Deploying Alan Feldman’s (1991) argument that political violence is an ‘emplotted action’ alongside William Connolly’s (2005) notion of resonance, it provides a genealogical account of how forms of assassination have been positioned within Western cultural understandings of political violence. The focal point of examination is the biblical heroine Judith, whose story has resonated as a preferred narrative structure for understanding and (de)legitimating acts of assassination among Western publics. Through its reading of the book of Judith, the article highlights the importance of ambivalence for understanding assassination as a form of political violence. The legacy of the moral problematique enabled by Judith is then illustrated in relation to US President Barak Obama’s May 2011 speech announcing the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The article concludes by suggesting that although the story of Judith may underpin contemporary assassination practices, it also offers a means of critically engaging with them.