...Joseph Vogl Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 The Sovereignty Eff ect Markets and Power in the Economic Regime joseph vogl Translated by William Callison The two parts of this essay revolve around a few dramas in the contemporary economy of fi nance. Part 1 will raise the question...

...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...

... ascetics in Lebanon exemplifies the challenge (and insistence) of form of life. The article then turns to consider a powerful reading of form of life grounded in Baruch Spinoza’s theory of emanation and vitalist univocity. While echoing the concerns of this article, Spinoza’s philosophical ethic defers...

...’ subjection to large-scale organizations and divisions of labor is at the heart of artificial intelligence. As such, questions of procedures are key to understanding the power assumed by institutions wielding artificial intelligence. Most media-historical accounts of the development of contemporary artificial...

... as a microcosm of a deindustrialized Northern Irish economy where labor has left the factory and become conjoined to the disciplinary power of the state, either as police work or as care work. In this way, Hunger attends to the “spirit” of what Lenin called the “labor aristocracy,” here reduced to the work...

... as the use of powerful, probabilistic algorithms premised on reducing the “given” to calculable “data,” a reduction in turn founded on and bringing about the reduction of knowledge to information. The entropic character of the data economy can then be conceived as the elimination of the incalculable...

... plurality of religions in some preexisting ontological difference. Once religion as such is understood as an object of influence, the temporality of the form, which is encountered within power—that is, the formations of particular sensibilities and dispositions within the coherence of a tradition...

... time is an important parameter of communicative possibility as well as a situated power dynamic, this article argues that the checkpoint demonstrates Israel’s colonial practice of controlling and erasing Palestinian time. “Checkpoint time” is both the haunting experience inside the checkpoint...

... it nominates as religious. By reexamining Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, as well as his early studies of modern literature, this essay contends that a secular criticism aware of its commitment to both concepts of the religious allows for a more nuanced and powerful account...

... claim: "In order to make a concrete analysis of power relations, we must abandon the juridical model of sovereignty" (265). Rather than studying the terms of the power relationship, Foucault argues, we must study the relationship itself: "rather than asking ideal...

... that unfolds about works of art, taking them as witnesses to a question: a question that bears Qui Pane, Vol. 14, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2004 JACQUES RANCIERE on the sensible and on the power that inhabits the sensible prior to thought, as the unthought in thought. I will therefore attempt...

... rights and liberties and enabled them to enjoy discretionary powers with impunity.7 The script of the disappearances in this region is, once again, similar. Take the cases of Kemal Birlik and Zeki Alabalık, who were recently commemorated by the Saturday Mothers. These individuals were...

... inextricable. If we want to understand how powers are reconfi gured by the debt economy, we must fi rst of all establish the links between economics and politics. —Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of Indebted Man During the 2008 fi nancial collapse, the concomitance of fi nancial capital...

... in turn, pick up on two objections of fundamental concern for my critics. The first has to do with my argument about the sensory life of power in the postcolony. The second is about the conditions under which an interpretation of the sexual politics of the post- colony might be possible. But before...

... group, while taking “the coloniality of power seriously have tended to naturalize gender” through an ahistori- cal and heterosexist account of patriarchy.4 While a thorough re- view is beyond the scope of this introduction, I will provide a brief summary of a crucial element of the M/C...

... “agency,” the very value that is particularly dear to the metaphysical mode of thinking. Only the site of activity shift s: before signifying a device (mēkhanē) or an expedient (mêkhos), the Greek mākhanā af- fi rms the ability, or the enabling power, of I may.2 Mechanical rep...

... power of the mind, Spinoza systematically describes political processes and institutions as imaginative and imaginary phenomena. From this perspective, politics as a whole can be read as an area of human life in which images, projections, misjudgments, and often- involuntary associa- 116 qui...

.... Professionalization would relate to a variety of power/knowledge apparatuses and discursive and non-discursive practices that express, evaluate, and take care of the mal-being of others. Morality would even have its own particular sites, the spatially demarcated and architecturally...

... the universities and Rosenberg's office of ideologi- cal education, Baeumler acquired a direct political and institutional power rare for an academic. Despite the centrality of both Rosenberg and Baeumler to the articulation of a fascist feminine, my paper finds its historical...

... refers to the relation- ship between the citizen and the sovereign power that governs the state: "a person owing allegiance to and entitled to the protection of a sovereign state These three, definitions implicitly distinguish the citizen from his other, the non-citizen, who, in turn, plays...