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...Thomas Biebricher Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism thomas biebricher Neoliberalism and Sovereignty: An Odd Couple? Neoliberalism is notorious not only because of the various effects attributed to its continued “ecological...

... of Chicago Press , 1998 . Honneth Axel . “ Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy ,” translated by Ganahl Joseph . In Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory , 3 – 48 . Cambridge : Polity , 2007 . Illouz Eva , ed. Emotions...

...Delali Kumavie Abstract This essay argues that Lesley Nneka Arimah’s collection of short stories, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky , evokes para-worlds that reveal and contend with the world and its norms. Examining the collection’s entwinement of magical, mythical, and animist modes...

...Judith Butler Abstract Indefinite detention is a legal norm and practice that is increasingly acceptable throughout the world. It consists of arrest and forcible detention without a clear communication of crimes committed, and it can last indefinitely, since it deprives the detained of recourse...

... lowest place, rather than with the nomos and topos imposed by the (modern) world and its regime of the proper. Immanence is thought of as anti- and antenomian force, a groundless ground coming underneath the conceptual logics of the world, its normative order of things, and life lived according to its...

... is a set of techniques and technologies that aim to predictively “typify” subjects and preformat them vis-à-vis normative and statistically correlated categories of gender and race, among others. This article lays the groundwork for thinking seriality as a sociotechnics of typification, the scope and power...

... prevalent claim in black horror studies today—that black life is more frightening than the supernatural—actually originates with Baldwin’s 1976 rebuke of the film. By disidentifying with horror, Baldwin shifts attention away from paranormal evils and onto a more horrifying normative world. Sketching...

...Kathleen Powers Abstract The prion is a self-replicating protein that infects the central nervous system. This essay applies Georges Canguilhem’s criterion for life, biological normativity, to the prion for the purpose of arguing that the existence of the prion within living systems requires...

... that are entrusted to measure, evaluate, 82 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol. 22, no. 1 and judge compliance with them, and also, norms of international customary law, such as jus cogens norms that bind even in the absence of formal treaties. Against the background of the rise...

... systems of law through colonial expansion and capitalist development, sharīʿa does not remain as such, since, as Marc Galanter argued early on, the secular state “propounds a charter for its religions; it involves a normative view of religion.” 9 Though important and axiomatic now, this view can also...

... the perspective of medicine and science, is not so distant from the “pathological” it is meant to foil. In the contemporary moment, what we might term paranormativity has further infringed on our so-called norms, unfolding in internet circles, blue-chip art institutions, and scenes of communal mourning. We...

... of 53rd State thru 43rd State where they have took down the project Robert Taylor Homes.”6 The request was to see something that is no longer visible. But the photo also acts as a method for making known the forms of vio- lence that evade normative modes of recognition...

... artist in possession of a unique, transcendental ego who, in the classic version, deploys the norm in an exceptional way, or, in the romantic version, creates the norm. Exemplarity or exception: the normative strategy of style reveals itself in this process of distin- guishing major works from...

... the smooth functioning of its institutions—all this, to be sure, is a means of defi ning and stabilizing these institutions and the norms that are their foundations. In this same schema gays have no fu- ture because they are marked by an essential fi nitude insofar as they “cannot...

...: the development of a normative theory of world literature as liter- ature that opens up an “ethicopolitical horizon . . . for the existing world” (ww, 5) as well as “other possible worlds, thereby giving us resolve to respond to modernity’s worldlessness and to remake the world according to newly disclosed...

.... Of course, it is certainly possible that there is much more interesting continuity than I realized. The fi rst half of Pheng Cheah’s valuable comments are devoted to this proposition. But it is not really true that I “empty [human rights] of almost all normative philosophical content...

... of the basic normative language for expressing con- demnation of injustice. Social movements may thus recognize the insidious role of human rights language in certain contexts even as they simultaneously understand their own actions as framed with- in its terms. Indeed, it could be argued...

... of freedom)— and continue to do so in the present. Yet over the last several decades, these codes have operated beyond a normative cultural logic of social identities (where they act as means of specifi cation, disciplining and representation of individuals, groups, and nations as integral 136 qui...

... force while at the same time being absolutely indispensable to normative order, normative form?” 6 For Moten, fugitivity is not reducible to either “simple interdiction” or “bare transgression” ( cb , 179). It is not an act but a practice in the sense of Saidiya Hartman’s compelling definition...

... to the marked body while also turning their relationship into a question” ( rm , 9). The coherence of these individuals as racial subjects depends on their adherence to racial norms, and in turn these racial norms make actions that deviate from those norms suspect. Using the framework of performance...