... Press, 377 -401. Genealogy gen*e-al*o*gy,n. : the descent of three keywords: public, publicity, and public opinion. Publicity and Pain: Self-Abstraction in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments John Durham Peters Among...

... his critique of capital: his views on abstract labor and on the relationship between capital and history. Marx’s philosophical category capital is planetary (or global) in its historical aspiration and universal in its constitution. Its categor...

... mobilizes certain theoretical claims implicit in the term’s grammatical status. It is possible to use the social as a noun phrase that designates an objectified abstraction because of a historical process that has made such abstractions seem as real as material entities. As a conse- quence of the general...

...Benjamin Lee Abstract Lauren Berlant, Moishe Postone, and Michael Silverstein were colleagues at the University of Chicago for over thirty years. Postone was one of the leading Marxist thinkers in the world; Silverstein was the leading linguistic anthropologist of his generation; and Berlant...

..., namely their relationship to abstraction. Abstraction My references to India and Indian society in the previous section could be taken to be quaintly anthropological, even Orientalist, in the sense that they appear...

... - and in developments such as in-vitro fertilisation, which so abstracts the embryo from humanity, from the unique Postmodem in this usage is probably too loose for many. A distinction is not being drawn between post-structuralism and postmodernism, though this can be a useful distinction. Nor...

... future, our projection begins to influence the present, to redound upon it, so to speak; in a very precise way, it has a decisive effect on our present. J. L. Aranguren, “Openness to the World” In this essay, Habermas’s vision is one of abstraction. He is concerned...

...-abnegating,” this denial of the self, and you’re talking about mimetic form, as in imitating nature, I take it. Can you explain that? PG: This is another example of my interest in finding where the abstract and concrete merge together. I had been thinking a lot and talking to my friend, the philosopher...

... framework to be readily counted among a short list of virtues. Moreover, virtues in their traditional rendering have an abstraction built into them. They endorse a particular content as having a broader if not universal value...

... than a compendium of cutting-edge ideas. Influenced, in particular, by the philosophy of the German neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer, Langer argued that all of human experience involved the transformation of sheer sensory input into abstract forms. These abstract forms had a symbolic function, symbolic...

...Paul Crosthwaite; Peter Knight; Nicky Marsh This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory...

...- modities from one culture to another. Instead, recent work indicates that circula- tion is a cultural process with its own forms of abstraction, evaluation, and con- straint, which are created by the interactions between specific types of circulating...

... be expressed in a new form of subjectiv- ity, that of a constitutionalized peoplehood, which would be abstract enough to legitimate a “bourgeois constitutional state,” yet concrete enough to subsume all private citizens. It is this dual structure...

... of government, the incorpora- tion of various kinds of abstraction into governmentality. Also, gender roles were both rigidified in the nineteenth century and began to break down. CZ: What is it about romantic poetry that you hated? MP: The solipsism and narcissism. In a word: Wordsworth. The idea...

... political subordinated the abstraction of nation and economy via the immediacy and visibility of embodied practice. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Gandhi before Mahatma: The Foundations of Political Truth Shruti Kapila...

... on to Black Friday, I briefly consider the genealogy of these acts of serial terror, which use the illusion of simultaneity to paralyze entire cit- ies, abstractions of human collectives, made possible by the organizational space constituted by infrastructural networks. Serial Terror It might...

.... Is There a Difference between Public Culture 1789 and 1989? A Reply to Greg Urban Michael M. J. Fischer 1 found it helpful in reading Greg Urban’s dense and abstract essay to pose three questions: (1...

... of the “historical antimony between women and public authority” has been particularly important for feminism (Berlant 1988:244; see also Jones 1993; Young 1990; Landes 1988; Jardine 1985; Ryan 1990; Pateman 1989). The abstract(ed) body of the bourgeois...

... configurations of “abstract space” upon which the long- term survival of capitalism has been grounded. Lefebvre’s approach to “spatio- analysis” (PS: 404–405; E, iv: 283) confronts this task by weaving together three distinct aspects of social space...

... requires elaboration) and its idealization of ancient Greece, Castoridias’s account is notable for rarely departing from the highly abstract level of ontological reflection where it begins. To be sure, Castoriadis displays a remarkable command of comparative cultural and historical data in his polemics...