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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 197–210.
Published: 01 January 2016
... 2016 democratic autonomy everyday state forms profanation of law and violence Rojava self-defense References Agamben Giorgio . 2007 . Profanations . New York : Zone Books . Benjamin Walter . 1986 . “Critique of Violence.” In Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 73–86.
Published: 01 January 2023
... against the background of Walter Benjamin's claim, in his “Critique of Violence,” that a “divine violence” that would neither sustain nor uphold law is “undisclosed to human beings,” this article argues that the Autonomia movement in 1970s Italy reveals how such undisclosedness, such invisibility, becomes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (3): 475–502.
Published: 01 July 2014
... for removal to the morgue. Newspapers published photo essays on survivors in local hospitals, covered in ointment with their eyes swollen shut, the appear- ance of the mareros now transformed into a vulnerability all the more poetic against a backdrop in which the violence of the law lay in plain sight...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (3): 615–624.
Published: 01 July 2016
.../entrevistas-mainmenu-34/17-entrevista/1423-malcolm-mcdowell-desgaja-la-naranja-mecca . Kaldor Mary . 2012 . New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era . 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK : Polity . Segato Rita Laura . 2013 . Las Estructuras Elementales de la Violencia (Elemental...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (1): 15–36.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., and instead I offer a more general conceptual analysis of the later work in rela- tion to the earlier. On Play: Experience and History State of Exception clarifies and extends the ontopolitical characterization of sovereignty, law, and legal violence that Agamben initially elaborates in Homo...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (3): 469–481.
Published: 01 July 1991
.... Eugene s home has become a boarding­ house, penetrated and profaned by strangers, who have only cash as their claim on the once-bountiful meals; his displacement seems to me representative of the situations of American writers who have found themselves barely tolerated guests at the national banquet...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 April 1959
... marriage. Sitting in front of a glowing fire and drinking casually, Bill catalogues for Nick the marital pitfalls he has escaped: financial responsibility, loss of personal freedom, the debilitating effects of connubiality, interference from in-laws, dull family routines, and the friction that could arise...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (4): 506–520.
Published: 01 October 1962
... of the finite soul to God, no Hegelian formu­ las as Whitman insisted. Even the grandest designs of the human imagination its mythologies and religions are ultimately Ac­ tive and profane: . . . if we are able to see the poet who achieved God and placed Him in His seat in heaven in all His glory, the poet...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., like the Colosseum in ancient Rome: a macabre and blood-Šlled specta- cle fed to the people. The people watch on social media and screens, as if Casarini Death and Life at Sea 195 from stands, shouting, inciting violence, calling for death, pointing their thumb down, and suddenly forgetting all...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1954) 53 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 April 1954
... treated with a scornful violence not easily found in any of his predecessors. He continued to hold the attention of his readers, if not to give expression to his own feel­ ings, by such remarks as Pox on the Dissenters and Independents! I would as soon trouble my head to write against a louse or a flea...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 157–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... the centrality of capital, state formation, colonialism, property, law, medicine, religion, and much more. Cole Rizki's ( 2020 ) work offers a refreshing antidote, taking as its sensitizing concepts both “sex/gender” and “state violence.” He examines travesti subjectivity—as both lived experience and metonym...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 381–400.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of the Mind . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Capra Fritjof Mattei Ugo . 2015 . The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community . San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler . Dardot Pierre Laval Christian . 2014 . Commun: Essai sur la révolution au...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (1): 85–98.
Published: 01 January 1974
... is guilt­ laden, suffers from various complexes, and frequently manifests itself in acts of violence. The aim of this essay is to examine the ideas and attitudes of one group of Southerners during the period 1865 to 1900, to ascer­ tain whether they possessed and expressed any distinctive views which might...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (3): 485–507.
Published: 01 July 2008
...— the creation of new classes of condemned—sustains a violence that goes beyond the mere logic of punishment.4 If This Language Becomes Law On September 21, 2006, the Bush administration and congressional Repub- licans (led by the “rebels” John McCain, John Warner, and Lindsey Graham) reached...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1909) 8 (2): 164–173.
Published: 01 April 1909
... of large Virginia plantations was very different in degree and kind from that required in a small parish in England. Further­ more, many of the Virginia clergy, free from restraint and rebuke, had begun to lead lives of profanity, drunkenness, and sometimes of immorality. The reports which reached England...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (3): 569–603.
Published: 01 July 1989
... imagery of sex and violence became unnerving when regarded as authorial obsessions, especially when those obsessions proved to have such mass appeal. Nervousness about seriality was expressed in speculations like this on Lara -. Whatever be the shades of difference in the character of his heroes, fidelity...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (1): 87–99.
Published: 01 January 1965
... And the two voices, as Arthur W. Hoffman calls them, of love the natural, profane love that impels and the supernatural, divine love that draws call con­ jointly throughout the General Prologue, in the relation of Knight and Squire to each other and to their code, in the tension between courtly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (1): 37–54.
Published: 01 January 2008
... engaged in a “truth procedure.” Badiou's book has only three categories (the Greek, the Jew, and the privileged term of the law-surpassing Christian) compared to his customary four (politics, art, science, and love), and in Saint Paul he casts suspicion on what would be the potential fourth category...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (2): 391–410.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of the free human sub- ject. The ideas that freedom was the primary state of humanity and that any form of social living that turned this free being into a bonded phe- nomenon, forced it to obey dictates and laws not of its own choosing, to bow before rulers it had no hand in electing, and to live...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 January 2001
... is not at the same time a document of barbarism and the more advanced the society, the greater its tragic potential for depravity and descent into the vortex of 3 violence. The extravagance...