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... of this exercise as a manner of managing existential anxieties. The awareness of thinking one's being in the world, the face of the other represented by the texts and the power of authorship, is an absolute experience of one's search for an impossible totality. One might then believe that, through the exercise...

... in the harmonious integrity of the whole. By means of this death scene, Machiavelli suggested that sovereigns must be prepared to exercise violent power over the divisible bodies of subjects in the name of securing the polity. I will argue here that the decline and death of the ancient metaphor of the body politic...

... in isolation for more than twenty years. The prisoners vowed to refuse food until five core demands were met. These demands were poignantly simple, including provision of warm clothes for their one hour per day of outdoor exercise in the “dog run,” permission to make one phone call per week, a supply...

... economies, if voluntary blindness, managed oblivion, and pervasive institutional paralysis can be overcome through the exercise of what I call a “politics of perception.” © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 petcoke tar sands bomb trains political art local activism Reference Holmes...

...Nell Gabiam This article focuses on a set of physical maps drawn by Palestinians who were living in France in summer 2012 as well as the oral interviews that accompanied the mapping exercise. Drawing on the fields of critical cartography and affect theory, it examines the different meanings...

... comparisons with different linguistic tables and memorial substantives. From the linguistic background—genetically identical with English and some twenty centuries distant—an old Greek or Latin framework transforms reading into a perpetual exercise in comparative interpretations. The main functions...

... in their territory that would increase tanker traffic in the habitat of endangered orcas by seven hundred percent by conducting their own assessment of the project based on Coast Salish law. These exercises of jurisdiction demonstrate relations with and responsibilities towards these Nations’ traditional territories...

... were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying the caravan on the ground and through cyber-ethnography, configuring what we call an “emergency anthropology.” Starting from...

... becomes an empty or, worse, an apologetic exercise? Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Marxism critique theory practice materiality References Adorno Theodor Marcuse Herbert . 1999 . “ Correspondence on the German Student Movement .” New Left Review 1...

...Jennifer L. Culbert; Austin Sarat The essays in this issue, “Killing States: Lethal Decisions/Final Judgments,” reflect on the exercise of state violence and the decisions taken to employ its lethal force. In so doing, these essays raise questions about our “state” in the broadest sense of the word...

... in popular depictions of the contested terrain of Guantánamo Bay, provides a curious case study of how state power is exercised at the margins, in nonspaces that lie beyond the national imaginary. These depictions point to a larger history of disenfranchisement, displacement, and suppression. In the end, I...

... (or not institutionalized) and practiced (or not practiced) around the world today demonstrates that this theoretical orientation gets it precisely backward—the most fundamental issues are neither individual nor moral but the profoundly political ones of the constitution and exercise of state sovereignty. Beginning...

... of most students that we ask of faculty and graduate students: to what extent does the structured precariousness of their existence affect the very possibility of their exercising academic freedom irrespective of any formal guarantees? Marc Bousquet Take Your Ritalin and Shut Up...

.... Throughout Australia, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, Indigenous communities continue to exercise authority or have at least attempted to develop localized methods of dealing with problems of social disorder. Indigenous practice has provided us with the opportunity and the necessity to rethink...

... economy and neoliberal economics, as well as in relation to Marx’s precept to “change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.” Part 3 analyzes Foucault’s concept of parrh ēsia—or speaking the truth in the face of power—in relation to Marx’s vision of the dictatorship...

... 1980, namely in Foucault’s Collège de France lectures. Particular attention is placed on the delineation of the political meaning of “alethurgy,” a neologism through which Foucault sought to thematize the significance of practices concerned with the manifestation of truth for the exercise of political...

..., arguing that true state violence was modally distinct from revolutionary violence, or the concrete materialization of a proletarian potentiality. Although opposed, both of these perspectives strive to mitigate or restrain the brutal subjectivation attending the exercise of violence. Placing this debate...

... the everywhereness found in the proliferation of “dead exchanges”—where discourses of freedom and development become merely aspects of continuous assessment of the exercised efficacies of particular bodies and their trajectories and interactions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke...

... collective Vitrina Dystópica's archive of dialogues, interviews, and interventions, this article proposes an analytical exercise that seeks to challenge the ongoing totalitarian coup of the political imagination. This exploration of the memory of struggles allows for gathering techniques, strategies...

... an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It should not be surprising that the framers addressed the subject of religion. No government, then or now, stands indifferent to religion. Every government has a policy. A nation may protect toleration while permitting establishment. It may...