... instinct will automatism degeneration the liberal subject ...

... counterinsurgency United States weaponization automatic translation systems Afghanistan ...

... designed to counter their effects on the urban poor and the threat of degeneration they engendered. instinct will automatism degeneration the liberal subject ...

... Mirror neuron research seeks to explain the human capacity for intersubjectivity and empathy in terms of automatic, neurophysiological processes that occur before higher-level cognition or propositional thinking. By comparing multiple accounts of mirror neurons, this chapter shows how...

... to use language as a weapon of war through the strategic deployment of translation practices in consolidating military occupation. It looks into such tactics as the training of soldiers in foreign languages, the development of automatic translation systems, and the protocols for expropriating...

... languages, the development of automatic translation systems, and the protocols for expropriating the mediating power of native interpreters. It also inquires into the limits and contradictions of such tactics and their implications for the success or failure of counterinsurgency. Finally it asks whether...

... This chapter concerns the question of the relationship between humans and manufactured objects anew. It begins by getting rid of a metaphysical barrier. Not all objects created thanks to humans' creative and inventive expansion have had the aim of increasing automatism. Such objects were...

... photographed. Rejecting this notion that being “inside” a particular milieu automatically exculpates the photographer from a voyeuristic and objectifying role, Solomon-Godeau asks whether it is not possible to consider the photographer’s utter exteriority as no more (or less) capable of rendering a certain...

... is based on the aural patterns of words, in contrast to ideographic writing. What it means to “record” and “reproduce” sound phonographically has coevolved with new technological developments, including the phonautograph’s automatic “reproduction” of sound on paper for visual apprehension in the 1850s...

... is intrinsically disenchanted and deracinated. Laborers, even slaves, did not automatically assume this commodity form either. Some served the master and his family over a lifetime, acting as acknowledged persons in a social field. Other slaves—particularly in the context of plantations—performed the tasks...

... of how religion is conceptualized. The chapter suggests rethinking both religion and secularism, taking an approach in which religion is not automatically considered a source of violence and secularism is not the key to ending violence. Instead, activists, like those of Sakhi for South Asian women in New...

... of “backstopping” for the negotiations; and the Soviet approach toward nuclear conflict. It debunks, based on testimony by senior Soviet military officials, reports that the Soviets secretly deployed a “Dead Hand” system for automatically launching nuclear weapons without any human intervention. It includes...

... that confirms and guides a single emotional response, the sound channel in her films blurs any notion of an appropriate affective register; it also poses the question of what to do with the sentiment and nostalgia that music can automatically, perhaps fraudulently, release. With detours via Turkish and Greek...

.... Laborers, even slaves, did not automatically assume this commodity form either. Some served the master and his family over a lifetime, acting as acknowledged persons in a social field. Other slaves—particularly in the context of plantations—performed the tasks assigned day in and day out with no personal...

... the compensation payments and declared a cut-off date after which any coca field in the “excess” zone of the Chapare would be automatically illegal and could be eradicated by the military at any moment without consultation. The aim was to achieve “zero coca” in the region, a target which delighted the government’s...

... a reflection of contemporary US politics, it is also the historical product of how religion is conceptualized. The chapter suggests rethinking both religion and secularism, taking an approach in which religion is not automatically considered a source of violence and secularism is not the key to ending violence...

... to maintain, or replant, some coca fields in order to guarantee a basic income. Starting in 1997, the Banzer government began to phase out the compensation payments and declared a cut-off date after which any coca field in the “excess” zone of the Chapare would be automatically illegal and could be eradicated...