... they pertain to the constitution of the subject, community, and the imaginaries operative within and through them. Working with the concepts of autos , munus , and nomos to read these systems, exemplified here by two different kinds of remote sensing systems—IT/weapons systems for the new US destroyer...

... Carl Schmitt begins his 1950 volume Der Nomos der Erde (nomos = spatial organization, law, regime) with the following couplet from Goethe’s 1812 poem ‘‘On Behalf of the Citizens of Karlsbad, In Honor of Her Majesty the Empress of France Das Kleinliche ist alles weggeronnen nur Meer...

... the specific social imaginary at work. If this immanent radical otherness exists at the level of physis, both at the psychical and cosmological level, it becomes the reason why, in the world of the human living being at least, physis must be divided by nomos. When this nomos is occluded and...

... feelings about it. Among the chief concerns was the trans- lating of the concept of Torah as nomos (law) and tzedaqa as dikaiosyne (justice), which opened the way to Pauline antilegalism in early Christianity and subsequently to Platonic interpretations. It is this problem of law that is of concern...

... then draws on Carl Schmitt’s work on the state of exception, argu- ing that this is the “hidden foundation” on which the entire political system rests. And he draws too on Schmitt’s idea of a “nomos of the Earth.” For Schmitt, writing in April 1939, such a division of the Earth was desirable...

... the voice of nature (“Oh Nature - none of this - Trilling converts the Greek debate between physis (nature) and nomos (law) into a battle of the sexes. On the contrary, I find it impossible to ascertain a speaker in lines five and six of the poem; one could well understand the whole second...

... composition: klēros being the acciden- tal element of life, one’s lot in life in the most rigorous sense, which at once bears a law (nomos), yet not as transcendental command but as whatever is specifically imparted into one’s being according to nemein—the opera- tive verb of nomos, which means...

... antago- nized concept of the ‘‘people and the concentration camp as the nomos of modern life in Means without End: Notes on Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Agamben examines the transformation of...

... in this double sense: it keeps, it puts in reserve, it saves, but in an unnatu- ral fashion, that is to say in making the law [nomos] or in making people respect the law” (AF, 7). The act of archiving is inherently conservative— the point of the archive is to conserve something of the objects it...

... money, which, according to Aristotle, “does not exist in nature but by law (nomos)” (Eth. Nic. 1133a), again pointing to money (and markets) as a by-product­ of the polis. This is made clear when taking into account that the (political) law distinguishes between the oikos and the polis; the...

..., but the principle can be extended to all forms of work), whose very principle of existence rests on an immunization and an exclusion of others, leading to pathologies such as anomie (a-­nomos) or scapegoating (pharmakos). The Internet permits these hyperdiachronic groups to develop and emerge...

...); and Pierre Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy? trans. Michael Chase (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004). 9. Thus the distinction between physis (nature) and nomos (convention, tradition, cus- tom), though differently interpreted according to different contexts, was employed as a...

... natural bond between nomos and phusis . . . the bond between the political and autochthonous consanguinity or, to put it in another way, on the “autochthonous and homophilic rooting that is, on the bond of soil and blood. From this bond originate the ideas of country, nation, even state...

... beyond its borders. When we think . One main tradition, for example, highlights the role of territory and refers back to the Schmittian concept of sovereignty, according to which sovereign law is the rationalization of Landnahme (appropriation of land). Carl Schmitt, Der Nomos der Erde im...

... that bound them to the sacred fatherland. They remained Greek, even on the other side of the world. And that’s why he is one of us—a Christian, an enemy of atheistic communism, and a man of peace, of law and of order, isichia, nomos, kai taxis—and a champion of our just cause...

... another nomos and become truly heteronomous. This too is what we mean when we say that the musicological performative turn could only be “partially subversive.” And this is also why the institutional setting and discursive staging of the musicological performative might have been its greatest...