... and philosophy, the chapter shows how the impossible philosophical activity of inventing a new political order will silently shape the course of exploration in the Laws and in much of colonialist thought after Plato. Suddenly, philosophical nomos acquires a paradigmatic and, if the accusations Badiou levels...

... of suddenly being without a job or income, and the fact that they no longer enjoyed the solidarity that came with living together in tight communities. Yet as these accounts of women who formerly lived in the Siglo XX mines reveal, the “relocated” workers also took with them impressive reserves of organizing...

... suddenly shift, with blasts generating violent pain and death for the animals and plants that have found a home in these abandoned lands. utopia apocalypse capitalism Panama Canal Isabelle Stengers ...

... of suddenly becoming foreign oneself. The two examples here are Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai. In their respective autobiographical accounts, they locate the beginning of their scholarly interests in their accidental encounters with unknown peoples and imported objects. In doing so they decisively...

... into which Adam Smith’s complex argument has degenerated, all economic decisions are best left to the invisible hand of the market. Emerging suddenly and apparently out of nowhere, the Tea Party has succeeded in becoming a major force in U.S. politics, which has shifted the Republican Party to the right...

... Italy, a site of high culture from the Renaissance on, suddenly found itself at once the center of, yet displaced by, a set of global relationships that textured everyday life in a singular way. That is, everyday life was caught up in the double spiral of uneven development: both belated...

... to change national guidelines for the Body Mass Index, and how overnight, millions of Indians were suddenly considered overweight. This generated a problem of matching metabolisms to persons over generations. Public health policies and their biological rationales circulated popularly imagined oppositions...

... sentence. Suddenly everything had changed. defense scapegoat Duch testimony François Roux Kar Savuth ...

..., jobs are created by the rich; welfare payments simply reward moochers; and, in the distorted sound bite into which Adam Smith’s complex argument has degenerated, all economic decisions are best left to the invisible hand of the market. Emerging suddenly and apparently out of nowhere, the Tea Party has...

... that Duch’s defense make clear what he was arguing. After back-and-forth, Duch sided with his Cambodian lawyer, who told the court that Duch wanted to be acquitted. This undercut a key assumption for many observers of the trial—that Duch was cooperating in the hope of getting a reduced sentence. Suddenly...

... with the foreign and experiences of suddenly becoming foreign oneself. The two examples here are Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai. In their respective autobiographical accounts, they locate the beginning of their scholarly interests in their accidental encounters with unknown peoples and imported objects...

.... Suddenly, philosophical nomos acquires a paradigmatic and, if the accusations Badiou levels at the lawgiving apparatuses of late Plato are correct, disastrous name in the emerging discourse of political philosophy, a name born from the immunitarian logic of colonial thinking: to solve the war within...

.... The mineworkers faced more subtle challenges as well, such as discrimination on the part of their new neighbors, the psychological pressure of suddenly being without a job or income, and the fact that they no longer enjoyed the solidarity that came with living together in tight communities. Yet as these accounts...