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Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria,
Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!
Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current
global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings
have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in
trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens,
habitually end up committing acts of coercion or disregard against
the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked
with making us live find themselves letting us die, then they are
practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls
bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of
contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion,
surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news,
terrorism and war. As it does so, it demonstrates that the very
term 'violence' is a discursive construct, an effect of language,
made real by our behaviours, embodied by our institutions and
disseminated by our technologies. In short, bioviolence is how the
contemporary powers that be make us do what they want. Resolutely
interdisciplinary, this book is suitable for all scholars, students
and general readers in the fields of IR, political theory,
philosophy, the humanities, sociology and journalism.
Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria,
Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!
Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current
global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings
have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in
trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens,
habitually end up committing acts of coercion or disregard against
the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked
with making us live find themselves letting us die, then they are
practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls
bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of
contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion,
surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news,
terrorism and war. As it does so, it demonstrates that the very
term 'violence' is a discursive construct, an effect of language,
made real by our behaviours, embodied by our institutions and
disseminated by our technologies. In short, bioviolence is how the
contemporary powers that be make us do what they want. Resolutely
interdisciplinary, this book is suitable for all scholars, students
and general readers in the fields of IR, political theory,
philosophy, the humanities, sociology and journalism.
The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of
reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often
surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its
publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my name in the
history of philosophy". Later he was brave enough to admit that
this inscription needed correction. The central elements of
Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read
through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds,
published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting
the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this
book is also the first to draw out the central component of
Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across
the core elements Being and Event-the void, the multiple, the set
and the event-Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's
ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is
primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and
Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section
reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text
for all Badiou readers.
Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to
rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of
several contemporary developments, including the emergence of
digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as
well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and
the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within
academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of
"layering," a concept currently used in a wide range of fields,
including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social
sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of
"layering," the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise
some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical
scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between
writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, differance
and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the
diverse-often polemical-analyses carried out in this volume is to
reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a
renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal
sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact,
diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering. This
collection will be of interest to scholars of continental
philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and
visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism,
post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.
Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in
contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's
Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions
that were posed in the first book. As a complex theory of worlds,
the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood, but in William
Watkin's diligent and critical close reading of the book, he makes
the case for Logics of Worlds being the essential Badiou book for
anyone interested in existence, meaning and the potential for
radical change. For Watkin, this recasting of ontology is followed
by a transformation of logic, which is not only a theory of being,
but of appearing and allows Badiou to give new meaning to the
object, body and relation. To do this, he explores these concepts
through architecture, astronomy and renowned thinkers such as Kant,
Hegel and Kierkegaard. For students of French Continental
philosophy, ontology and Badiou himself, Watkin's commentary on the
philosopher's text provides a brilliant and incisive new
interpretation of this underrated work by the leading Continental
philosopher of our time.
Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in
contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's
Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions
that were posed in the first book. As a complex theory of worlds,
the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood, but in William
Watkin's diligent and critical close reading of the book, he makes
the case for Logics of Worlds being the essential Badiou book for
anyone interested in existence, meaning and the potential for
radical change. For Watkin, this recasting of ontology is followed
by a transformation of logic, which is not only a theory of being,
but of appearing and allows Badiou to give new meaning to the
object, body and relation. To do this, he explores these concepts
through architecture, astronomy and renowned thinkers such as Kant,
Hegel and Kierkegaard. For students of French Continental
philosophy, ontology and Badiou himself, Watkin's commentary on the
philosopher's text provides a brilliant and incisive new
interpretation of this underrated work by the leading Continental
philosopher of our time.
The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of
reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often
surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its
publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my name in the
history of philosophy". Later he was brave enough to admit that
this inscription needed correction. The central elements of
Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read
through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds,
published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting
the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this
book is also the first to draw out the central component of
Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across
the core elements Being and Event-the void, the multiple, the set
and the event-Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's
ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is
primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and
Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section
reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text
for all Badiou readers.
Prescription ADHD medication has been shown to be on the rise as a
drug of abuse among young people. Unlike many drugs that serve only
the purpose of achieving a high, this particular substance can also
be perceived as useful and beneficial by those who abuse it. It is
these positive attributes given to the illicit use of these drugs
that make them so dangerous, especially in the hands of youths. To
date, extant research has made little effort to contextualize this
type of drug use within theories of deviance. This study looks to
fill that void as well as bridge the gap between current
epidemiological studies on this topic and future etiological
investigations looking to assess causation within a theoretical
context. Examining a national sample of 12th grade students, this
study looks at what risk factors and predictors exist for the
illicit use of ADHD medication.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ A String Of Pearls William Watkins Old Bemrose and Sons, 1874
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