... these readings by focusing on the “epistemology of the case” in Žižek’s philosophy. It addresses the transformation of the notion of the system, implied by the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis. Far from being a rejection of systematicity, the case is the system, which is grounded on the logical...

... Chapter 1 is a systematic analysis of Schmitt’s writings on the State. Galli’s reading reconstructs the internal logic of Schmitt’s theories of the State (clarifying concepts of liberalism, democracy, and constitutional theory along the way) while also externally contextualizing those theories...

...; telephony, or any transmission of sounds at a distance; systematic acousmatization, or the generalized separation of hearing and seeing; amplification and deamplification, or the various ways that the intensity of sounds is modified; phonofixation, or the recording of existing sounds or production of sounds...

... to defend its archaic law, this campaign systematically and comprehensively dismantled this statute and its discriminatory effects. Louisiana sex work sex offender legal advocacy Women With a Vision ...

... This chapter uses C. S. Giscombe’s 1994 book-length poem Here to explore systematically some key ways that songs and poetry document racialized experiences of geography, particularly the shifting boundaries between North and South and between urban and rural. It explores Giscombe’s complex...

... and the rechanneling of such pressures. It argues that, whereas replacement was once a condition for local values (constituting, as it were, the systematic provisioning of social life), irreplaceability (as opposed to commensurability per se) became, for those villagers implicated in the ecotourism project, a value...

... it demonstrates why and how Žižek’s positions (as a systematic position) needs to be defended against any attack of any so called pragmatist neo-Hegelian. This then leads to a detailed reconstruction of one of the most surprising things that can be found in his Less than Nothing, namely a brilliant reading...

.... Taking up the AMP in its earliest Marxist systematicity, and then in its 1930s and 1990s historiographical incarnations, this chapter interrogates the gaps between universal economic concepts and locally lived histories and the ways in which those gaps are bridged in today’s culturalist discourse...

... professional architectural and planning practice of emergency relief, beginning in the early 1950s and systematizing in the 1990s. Farah's authority emerges in the domesticities of emergency, in a context that reproduces the emergency homemaker as architect. The chapter explores this and other domesticities...

... Hitchcock’s interaction with journalists over exquisite food at first-rate restaurants was part of the marketing strategy that served his franchise building from films only to a small media empire. The chapter sets the stage for how Hitchcock systematically orchestrated attention to his body...

... Adam Sitze’s introduction reviews Anglophone scholarship on Carl Schmitt and clarifies Carlo Galli’s contribution to that scholarship: Galli performs an “immanent critique” of Schmitt’s oeuvre that is until now lacking in English. Sitze then shows how Galli’s systematic reconstruction...

... Carlo Galli’s preface explains why the ancient Roman god Janus provides a fitting metonym for his systematic interpretation of Schmitt’s political thought. Janus was the god of thresholds and passages, of beginnings that double as ends. As such, he was famously two-faced: he looked forward...

... retrieves and critiques the ways in which economics and culture were intertwined at the origin of the systematic rewritings of Chinese history as part of a world-historical project. These joined historiographical explorations permit an extended discussion of the relationship among temporality, culturalism...

... Chapter 1 evaluates Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice in terms of earlier city views and a near-contemporary innovation in cartography—the Venetian state’s decision to systematically collect quantitative and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them...