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... posit” associated with late twentieth-century musicology and sociology that valorizes music's social utility. Recognizing serious limitations in both, we turn to Étienne Balibar's notion of “civility” as an experimental practice that regulates extremes in order to reduce violence. Drawing...

... that are categorized as “public . Jonathan Franzen, Strong Motion (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992), 191. boundary 2 34:1 (2007)  DOI 10.1215/01903659-2006-025  © 2007 by Duke University Press 26  boundary 2  /  Spring 2007 utilities” and are as yet incompletely commodified. Yet unlike...

... or backwardness. More subtly, the creation of an authoritative “expertise” on Islam and Muslims through Orientalist scholarship has resulted in the utilization of the academic history of Islam as a mode of violence, both epistemological and physical. Through this institutional system, Orientalists 3...

... in the name of beauty in order to strangle its agency. In Moriarty’s inverted scenario, the male bride has died, the woman lives on, looks back, assesses the damage done by an art that utilizes the female nude as its highest principle of beauty. As Gail Scott, in her cover blurb, says, Moriarty strips...

... economic inequality and fails to address problems that would otherwise be within their responsibility. The body itself is subject to intervention. As Michel Foucault argued, political power utilizes the concept of health to create desirable subjects for the state. At the same time, the state...

..., was a ‘‘philosophic radi- cal a disciple of Jeremy Bentham, whose principle of utility, or the ‘‘greatest happiness principle John Stuart Mill considered to be the ‘‘foundation of morals’’ and ‘‘the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth ‘‘To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute...

... with the liberty generated by the rational and general will. It is only the general will that looks toward the common good of society. And it is only the general will that issues from reason and is thus able to subordi- nate appetite and utility to the common good.45 All other wills are particu- lar...

...-social-factory/ . Horning Rob . 2011b . “ Structuring the Self as Inherently Entrepreneurial, Facebook as Neo-liberal State .” Marginal Utility Annex (blog) . March 1 , 2011 . http://marginal-utility.blogspot.com/2011/03/structuring-self-as-inherently.html . Kimmel Michael...

... neoliberalism seeks to improve on the liberal past is in its utilization of a strong state, even at the risk of contradiction and recuperating the fascist solution. It should be pointed out that Polanyi, among others, had already seen in 1941, in the baneful excesses of marketization, the necessity...

... on ‘‘dominant relative frequency’’ (752, 854), while other times they depended on ‘‘inherent logic’’ (789) or ‘‘most important of all scientific criteria—operational utility’’ (822). Oper- ationally, Gould redefined punctuations in two...

.... During the early industrialization process, partly as a consequence of its social democratic ideology, the PAP government took over all natu- ral monopolies—seaport and airport, utilities and telecommunications—as nationservice enterprises, for example, the Port Authority, the Civil Avia- tion...

... Mazzino . Berlin and New York : de Gruyter . Nietzsche Friedrich . (1966) 1989 . Beyond Good and Evil . Translated by Kaufmann Walter . New York : Vintage . Nietzsche Friedrich . 1995 . “ On the Utility and Liability of History for Life .” In Unfashionable Observations...

... . Hennion Antoine Maisonneuve Sophie Gomart Émilie . 2000 . Figures de l'amateur: Formes objets et pratiques de l'amour de la musique aujourd'hui . Paris : Documentation Française . Jam Jean-Louis . 2000 . “Caylus, l'amateur crépusculaire.” In Les divertissements utiles: Des...

... and extermination” but also “and above all, the site of the production of the Muselmann”—the incarnation of “absolute biopolitical substance”—as close as we get to bare life in this age (85). What happens when critical theory utilizes history, tracking and iden- tifying “paradigms of modernity...

... in my unconscious—maybe it was you?) about Plato’s banishment of the poets from his ideal city: that any rejection of poetry on the grounds of its sup- posed lack of utility and even danger can’t help but, by this very refusal, designate poetry as a discourse in possession of some sort...

..., theoreti- cally anyone could retrieve, learn from, and potentially even modify them. Described so prosaically, the utility of digital encryption technologies is obvious, and they are used and should be used widely across the digital infrastructure. Because of that utility, the military has...

... appears repeatedly in the form of an anxiety that over- whelms the (pre)imperial subject, an impatience marked by a certain non- foundational nomadic movement that must eventually be tamed and man- aged by being inserted into a colonial system of utility. Robinson Crusoe, in the early stages of his...

... of the Cultural Revolution. The third is the “inheritance model,” manifested in the borrowing, adaptation, and utilization of some positive elements of the Cultural Revo- lution. The Cultural Revolution is an extremely complex historical phe- nomenon. Generally speaking...

... public utility and a mass collectivity. This can be seen in Brown's “From Politics to Metapolitics” essay, in which his sketch of “utopia” bears out his “new model of rationality,” noted above, by encompassing both rational infrastructural forms and the supposed irrationality of polymorphous social life...

... to Confucians at that time was Mozi, who unashamedly advocated profit and utility as desirable goals. Confucians throughout the ages were considered to have placed morality above profits and utility, whereas the Mohists took the opposite stance. The Confucian hatred for the utilitarian profit...