David Kurnick
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151519
- eISBN:
- 9781400840090
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151519.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. This book challenges this consensus by re-examining the genre's development ...
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According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. This book challenges this consensus by re-examining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly—the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin—writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies—this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, the book reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Exploring neglected texts in order to reread canonical ones, the book shows that the theatrical ambitions of major novelists had crucial formal and ideological effects on their masterworks. The book establishes the theatrical genealogy of some of the signal techniques of narrative interiority by investigating a key stretch of each of these novelistic careers. In the process, it illustrates how the novel is marked by a hunger for palpable collectivity, and argues that the genre's discontents have been a shaping force in its evolution. A groundbreaking rereading of the novel, this book provides new ways to consider the novelistic imagination.Less
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. This book challenges this consensus by re-examining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly—the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin—writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies—this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, the book reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Exploring neglected texts in order to reread canonical ones, the book shows that the theatrical ambitions of major novelists had crucial formal and ideological effects on their masterworks. The book establishes the theatrical genealogy of some of the signal techniques of narrative interiority by investigating a key stretch of each of these novelistic careers. In the process, it illustrates how the novel is marked by a hunger for palpable collectivity, and argues that the genre's discontents have been a shaping force in its evolution. A groundbreaking rereading of the novel, this book provides new ways to consider the novelistic imagination.
Raimo Tuomela
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195313390
- eISBN:
- 9780199870929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313390.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter analyzes several versions of the notions of the I-mode and the we-mode. It also clarifies the central Collectivity Condition explicating a strong version of the “common fate” or ...
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This chapter analyzes several versions of the notions of the I-mode and the we-mode. It also clarifies the central Collectivity Condition explicating a strong version of the “common fate” or “standing and falling together” idea that we-mode groups involve and that underlies the full we-mode and thus the full shared point of view. The other central conceptual ingredients of the we-mode are collective acceptance for the group and collective commitment. The we-mode embodies the group's point of view and gives a group reason for action to the members.The chapter also contains arguments for the importance of the we-mode, and it surveys most of the arguments for the importance, necessity, and desirability of we-mode thinking and acting that are discussed in detail later in the book.Less
This chapter analyzes several versions of the notions of the I-mode and the we-mode. It also clarifies the central Collectivity Condition explicating a strong version of the “common fate” or “standing and falling together” idea that we-mode groups involve and that underlies the full we-mode and thus the full shared point of view. The other central conceptual ingredients of the we-mode are collective acceptance for the group and collective commitment. The we-mode embodies the group's point of view and gives a group reason for action to the members.
The chapter also contains arguments for the importance of the we-mode, and it surveys most of the arguments for the importance, necessity, and desirability of we-mode thinking and acting that are discussed in detail later in the book.
Stephen J. Collier
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691148304
- eISBN:
- 9781400840427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691148304.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter looks at Soviet developments in the industrial city of Belaya Kalitva. The first part examines the plans that were developed for the city in the early 1960s in order to illustrate how ...
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This chapter looks at Soviet developments in the industrial city of Belaya Kalitva. The first part examines the plans that were developed for the city in the early 1960s in order to illustrate how the concepts of settlement and city khoziaistvo allowed city-builders to take hold of a specific reality and formulate proposals for its transformation. The second part describes the process through which some of the works anticipated in Belaya Kalitva's plans were actually built, focusing on urban utilities, material and bureaucratic structures, patterns of resource flow, and developments in industrial production. Through this analysis, the chapter shows that city-building provides a window on the process through which a new kind of collectivity was assembled in Soviet cities, as urban populations were linked together and plugged into a new substantive economy. In this sense, the city-building apparatus will be understood as a key dimension of the Soviet social.Less
This chapter looks at Soviet developments in the industrial city of Belaya Kalitva. The first part examines the plans that were developed for the city in the early 1960s in order to illustrate how the concepts of settlement and city khoziaistvo allowed city-builders to take hold of a specific reality and formulate proposals for its transformation. The second part describes the process through which some of the works anticipated in Belaya Kalitva's plans were actually built, focusing on urban utilities, material and bureaucratic structures, patterns of resource flow, and developments in industrial production. Through this analysis, the chapter shows that city-building provides a window on the process through which a new kind of collectivity was assembled in Soviet cities, as urban populations were linked together and plugged into a new substantive economy. In this sense, the city-building apparatus will be understood as a key dimension of the Soviet social.
Oren Izenberg
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691144832
- eISBN:
- 9781400836529
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691144832.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the logic behind Bob Perelman's wish to produce an account of poetry as an enterprise deeply involved in manifesting the possibility of social life, or in producing confidence ...
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This chapter examines the logic behind Bob Perelman's wish to produce an account of poetry as an enterprise deeply involved in manifesting the possibility of social life, or in producing confidence in the ground of social life. Focusing on Language poetry, the movement Perelman represents, the chapter discusses the disparity between imagined and actual forms of collectivity that arises from two contradictory commitments that Perelman's story allegorizes: a commitment to a radical concept of freedom on the one hand, and to a repressive hypothesis of cultural determinism on the other. It also analyzes the theory and practice of collaboration in the book Leningrad and relates it the account of the person implicit in the generative linguistics deplored by the Language poets. Finally, it considers how the Language poets' appeal to grammaticality regrounds personhood.Less
This chapter examines the logic behind Bob Perelman's wish to produce an account of poetry as an enterprise deeply involved in manifesting the possibility of social life, or in producing confidence in the ground of social life. Focusing on Language poetry, the movement Perelman represents, the chapter discusses the disparity between imagined and actual forms of collectivity that arises from two contradictory commitments that Perelman's story allegorizes: a commitment to a radical concept of freedom on the one hand, and to a repressive hypothesis of cultural determinism on the other. It also analyzes the theory and practice of collaboration in the book Leningrad and relates it the account of the person implicit in the generative linguistics deplored by the Language poets. Finally, it considers how the Language poets' appeal to grammaticality regrounds personhood.
Charles Ramble
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195154146
- eISBN:
- 9780199868513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154146.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter further challenges the reduction of religion in culturally Tibetan villages to a confrontation between opposed ideologies: Buddhism on the one hand and the cult of autochthonous gods on ...
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This chapter further challenges the reduction of religion in culturally Tibetan villages to a confrontation between opposed ideologies: Buddhism on the one hand and the cult of autochthonous gods on the other. The fallacy of this simple dialectic is illustrated by an examination of a number of local documents and anecdotes. Whereas the most obvious interpretation of these reinforces the idea of an ideological clash between Buddhist tenets and “pagan” practice, closer analysis demonstrates that this attractive scenario is an irrelevance. Apparent inconsistencies in the examples are reconciled when they are examined not in terms of the conventional understanding of religion but rather from the point of view of the community. It is suggested that certain narratives that are ostensibly concerned with Buddhism are in fact celebrations of the morality of collectivity as opposed to the divisive (albeit lucrative) ethos of individualism.Less
This chapter further challenges the reduction of religion in culturally Tibetan villages to a confrontation between opposed ideologies: Buddhism on the one hand and the cult of autochthonous gods on the other. The fallacy of this simple dialectic is illustrated by an examination of a number of local documents and anecdotes. Whereas the most obvious interpretation of these reinforces the idea of an ideological clash between Buddhist tenets and “pagan” practice, closer analysis demonstrates that this attractive scenario is an irrelevance. Apparent inconsistencies in the examples are reconciled when they are examined not in terms of the conventional understanding of religion but rather from the point of view of the community. It is suggested that certain narratives that are ostensibly concerned with Buddhism are in fact celebrations of the morality of collectivity as opposed to the divisive (albeit lucrative) ethos of individualism.
Elizabeth Cripps
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199665655
- eISBN:
- 9780191753039
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665655.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Global climate change challenges standard theories of moral accountability. Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle it, but where does this requirement come from? Climate ...
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Global climate change challenges standard theories of moral accountability. Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle it, but where does this requirement come from? Climate change does very great harm, to our fellow humans and to the non-human world, but no one causes it on their own and it isn’t the result of intentionally collective action. What, moreover, should each of us be doing in the absence of effective global-level cooperation? Is there anything we can do, as individuals, that will leave us able to live with ourselves? This book responds to these challenges. It makes the moral case for collective action on climate change by appealing to moralized collective self-interest, collective ability to aid, and an expanded understanding of collective responsibility for harm. On top of these, it argues that collective action is something we owe to ourselves, as moral agents, because without it we are left facing marring choices. In the absence of collective action, it is argued that the primary individual duty is to promote such action, with a supplementary duty to aid victims directly. The argument is not that we should not be cutting our own emissions: this can be a necessary part of bringing about collective action or alleviating harm. However, such ‘green’ lifestyle choices cannot be straightforwardly defended as duties in their own right, and they should not take priority over trying to bring about collective change.Less
Global climate change challenges standard theories of moral accountability. Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle it, but where does this requirement come from? Climate change does very great harm, to our fellow humans and to the non-human world, but no one causes it on their own and it isn’t the result of intentionally collective action. What, moreover, should each of us be doing in the absence of effective global-level cooperation? Is there anything we can do, as individuals, that will leave us able to live with ourselves? This book responds to these challenges. It makes the moral case for collective action on climate change by appealing to moralized collective self-interest, collective ability to aid, and an expanded understanding of collective responsibility for harm. On top of these, it argues that collective action is something we owe to ourselves, as moral agents, because without it we are left facing marring choices. In the absence of collective action, it is argued that the primary individual duty is to promote such action, with a supplementary duty to aid victims directly. The argument is not that we should not be cutting our own emissions: this can be a necessary part of bringing about collective action or alleviating harm. However, such ‘green’ lifestyle choices cannot be straightforwardly defended as duties in their own right, and they should not take priority over trying to bring about collective change.
Kay Mathiesen
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199272457
- eISBN:
- 9780191709951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272457.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter proposes an account of collective consciousness based on individuals' capacity to (together) form a collective subject. Three essential features of collective subjectivity are ...
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This chapter proposes an account of collective consciousness based on individuals' capacity to (together) form a collective subject. Three essential features of collective subjectivity are delineated: plurality, awareness, and collectivity. Edmund Husserl's account of social subjectivities and Alfred Schutz's criticisms of Husserl's view are discussed. The author agrees with Schutz that Husserl fails to explain how such subjectivities are constituted by the conscious acts of individuals. By focusing on our recognized capacities for social intentionality — empathy, inter-subjectivity, and co-subjectivity — we have some of the tools to provide such an explanation. A further tool is needed, and the idea that we have a capacity to take the ‘first-person plural’ perspective is introduced. By internally simulating the consciousness of the collective that they form, individuals may form a collective subject that has the three essential features delineated above.Less
This chapter proposes an account of collective consciousness based on individuals' capacity to (together) form a collective subject. Three essential features of collective subjectivity are delineated: plurality, awareness, and collectivity. Edmund Husserl's account of social subjectivities and Alfred Schutz's criticisms of Husserl's view are discussed. The author agrees with Schutz that Husserl fails to explain how such subjectivities are constituted by the conscious acts of individuals. By focusing on our recognized capacities for social intentionality — empathy, inter-subjectivity, and co-subjectivity — we have some of the tools to provide such an explanation. A further tool is needed, and the idea that we have a capacity to take the ‘first-person plural’ perspective is introduced. By internally simulating the consciousness of the collective that they form, individuals may form a collective subject that has the three essential features delineated above.
Liam Gillick
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231170208
- eISBN:
- 9780231540964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170208.003.0014
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
Maybe it’s possible to explain the discursive cultural framework within a context of difference and collectivity, “difference” being the key word that defines our time and “collectivity” being the ...
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Maybe it’s possible to explain the discursive cultural framework within a context of difference and collectivity, “difference” being the key word that defines our time and “collectivity” being the thing that is so hard to achieve while frequently being so longed for. We have to negotiate and recognize difference and collectivity simultaneously. It is an aspect of social consciousness that is exemplified in the art context. Difference and collectivity as social definitions and processes of recognition feed from the examples of modern and contemporary art. Art is nurtured and encouraged in return via cultural permission to be the space for what cannot be tolerated but can be accommodated under the conditions of neoliberal globalization.Less
Maybe it’s possible to explain the discursive cultural framework within a context of difference and collectivity, “difference” being the key word that defines our time and “collectivity” being the thing that is so hard to achieve while frequently being so longed for. We have to negotiate and recognize difference and collectivity simultaneously. It is an aspect of social consciousness that is exemplified in the art context. Difference and collectivity as social definitions and processes of recognition feed from the examples of modern and contemporary art. Art is nurtured and encouraged in return via cultural permission to be the space for what cannot be tolerated but can be accommodated under the conditions of neoliberal globalization.
Condee Nancy
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195366761
- eISBN:
- 9780199867394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195366761.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
In the collaborative work of Abdrashitov and his longtime scriptwriter, Aleksandr Mindadze, three films are set at the Soviet colonial periphery, an ideal subcategory if this study were principally ...
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In the collaborative work of Abdrashitov and his longtime scriptwriter, Aleksandr Mindadze, three films are set at the Soviet colonial periphery, an ideal subcategory if this study were principally committed to a content-driven analysis of the colonial scene. The volume’s research interest, however, extends beyond the colonial vista, taking as evident that the imperial imagination does not spring up at the state’s edge, or intensify as the border approaches, but is engaged through the cinematic work at levels limited neither to the visual periphery nor to narrative content. More particularly, their cinema does not seek to engage its audience principally at the level of social topicality. They are preoccupied instead with transcendent metaphors about the failure of shared practices that would confirm a community’s value beyond state reach and differentiate it from the institutional interventions of the law. Abdrashitov and Mindadze lament the lability of the human psyche, oblivious both to its own institutional appropriation and to other ways of potential cohesion, however unavailable or archaic those ways may be.Less
In the collaborative work of Abdrashitov and his longtime scriptwriter, Aleksandr Mindadze, three films are set at the Soviet colonial periphery, an ideal subcategory if this study were principally committed to a content-driven analysis of the colonial scene. The volume’s research interest, however, extends beyond the colonial vista, taking as evident that the imperial imagination does not spring up at the state’s edge, or intensify as the border approaches, but is engaged through the cinematic work at levels limited neither to the visual periphery nor to narrative content. More particularly, their cinema does not seek to engage its audience principally at the level of social topicality. They are preoccupied instead with transcendent metaphors about the failure of shared practices that would confirm a community’s value beyond state reach and differentiate it from the institutional interventions of the law. Abdrashitov and Mindadze lament the lability of the human psyche, oblivious both to its own institutional appropriation and to other ways of potential cohesion, however unavailable or archaic those ways may be.
I. A. Ruffell
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199587216
- eISBN:
- 9780191731297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587216.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter develops the study of comic self-reference by looking at direct and indirect address and manipulation of the audience. Arguing that the audience's role is a construct of the ...
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This chapter develops the study of comic self-reference by looking at direct and indirect address and manipulation of the audience. Arguing that the audience's role is a construct of the fiction, audience address and related, but less explicit, devices consolidate the audience as the male citizen body of Athens and construct a coherent audience position with which audience members can identify. Such explicit and implicit intervention extends the social and inclusive dimension of laughter. Identification of individuals and groups within the audience is limited and further consolidates group identity, while Dionysiac and festive dimensions of the impossible worlds of comedy, such as Akharnians, Frogs, and Eupolis' Poleis also serve to intensify the political atmosphere of the plays.Less
This chapter develops the study of comic self-reference by looking at direct and indirect address and manipulation of the audience. Arguing that the audience's role is a construct of the fiction, audience address and related, but less explicit, devices consolidate the audience as the male citizen body of Athens and construct a coherent audience position with which audience members can identify. Such explicit and implicit intervention extends the social and inclusive dimension of laughter. Identification of individuals and groups within the audience is limited and further consolidates group identity, while Dionysiac and festive dimensions of the impossible worlds of comedy, such as Akharnians, Frogs, and Eupolis' Poleis also serve to intensify the political atmosphere of the plays.
Yiannis Gabriel
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198290957
- eISBN:
- 9780191684845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290957.003.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
Storytelling is an art of weaving, of constructing, the product of intimate knowledge. It is a delicate process, a process that can easily break down, failing to live up to its promise, and ...
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Storytelling is an art of weaving, of constructing, the product of intimate knowledge. It is a delicate process, a process that can easily break down, failing to live up to its promise, and disintegrating into mere text. This book is a study of storytelling in organizations and argues that stories open valuable windows into the emotional, political, and symbolic lives of the organizations. The main questions addressed by the book are: (1) How can we study organizations through stories that are told in them and about them? (2) What do stories tell us about the nature of organizations as distinct forms of human collectivity? (3) What do stories encountered in organizations tell us about the nature and functions of storytelling? The book is also an attempt to vindicate stories as valuable but precarious artefacts and storytelling as an important narrative craft.Less
Storytelling is an art of weaving, of constructing, the product of intimate knowledge. It is a delicate process, a process that can easily break down, failing to live up to its promise, and disintegrating into mere text. This book is a study of storytelling in organizations and argues that stories open valuable windows into the emotional, political, and symbolic lives of the organizations. The main questions addressed by the book are: (1) How can we study organizations through stories that are told in them and about them? (2) What do stories tell us about the nature of organizations as distinct forms of human collectivity? (3) What do stories encountered in organizations tell us about the nature and functions of storytelling? The book is also an attempt to vindicate stories as valuable but precarious artefacts and storytelling as an important narrative craft.
Rihan Yeh
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226511887
- eISBN:
- 9780226512075
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226512075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and despite the US’s dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it remains deeply connected with California by one of the busiest ...
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Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and despite the US’s dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it remains deeply connected with California by one of the busiest international ports of entry in the world. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Passing probes the US-Mexico border’s influence on senses of self and collectivity here. Two publics, it argues, take shape in the shadow of the border. The clase media or “middle class” strives to enact the ideals of liberal publicity: informed, rational debate grounded in an upstanding “I.” The border, however, destabilizes this public profoundly, for as middle-class subjects seek confirmation of their status in the form of a US visa, they expose themselves to suspicions that reduce their projects of selfhood to interested attempts to pass inspection. In contrast, the pueblo, or “the people” as paradigmatically plebeian, imagines itself as composed of actual and potential “illegal aliens.” Instead of the “we” of liberal publicity, this public takes shape via the third person of hearsay: communication framed as what “they say,” what “everyone” knows and repeats. Passing tracks Tijuana’s two publics as they both face off and intertwine in demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, workplace banter, personal interviews, and more. Through close attention to everyday talk and interaction, it reveals how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition together shape Tijuana’s public sphere, throwing into relief the conundrums of self and collectivity born of an age of at once increased transnational flows and fortified borders.Less
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and despite the US’s dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it remains deeply connected with California by one of the busiest international ports of entry in the world. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Passing probes the US-Mexico border’s influence on senses of self and collectivity here. Two publics, it argues, take shape in the shadow of the border. The clase media or “middle class” strives to enact the ideals of liberal publicity: informed, rational debate grounded in an upstanding “I.” The border, however, destabilizes this public profoundly, for as middle-class subjects seek confirmation of their status in the form of a US visa, they expose themselves to suspicions that reduce their projects of selfhood to interested attempts to pass inspection. In contrast, the pueblo, or “the people” as paradigmatically plebeian, imagines itself as composed of actual and potential “illegal aliens.” Instead of the “we” of liberal publicity, this public takes shape via the third person of hearsay: communication framed as what “they say,” what “everyone” knows and repeats. Passing tracks Tijuana’s two publics as they both face off and intertwine in demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, workplace banter, personal interviews, and more. Through close attention to everyday talk and interaction, it reveals how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition together shape Tijuana’s public sphere, throwing into relief the conundrums of self and collectivity born of an age of at once increased transnational flows and fortified borders.
Daniel M. Stout
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823272235
- eISBN:
- 9780823272273
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823272235.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the rise of the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of ...
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Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the rise of the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading a set of important Romantic novels—Caleb Williams, Mansfield Park, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Frankenstein, and A Tale of Two Cities—alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, this book argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism’s ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.Less
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the rise of the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading a set of important Romantic novels—Caleb Williams, Mansfield Park, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Frankenstein, and A Tale of Two Cities—alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, this book argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism’s ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.
Tariq Ramadan
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195183566
- eISBN:
- 9780199850426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183566.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Muslims, like everyone else, observe the phenomenon of globalization: they study its basic precepts and its logic; they perceive its serious ethical shortcomings; but they hardly offer an ...
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Muslims, like everyone else, observe the phenomenon of globalization: they study its basic precepts and its logic; they perceive its serious ethical shortcomings; but they hardly offer an alternative, or at least a critical perspective on the basis of the scriptural sources and an understanding of the context. In the meantime, the opposite phenomenon is emerging: the Islamic world has produced economic and financial institutions that, by trying to arrange, within but on the fringes of the system on a small scale, so-called Islamic transactions which, without riba (usury), condone and affirm the logic of the global system because they do not resist it. The whole of the Islamic world is in subjection to the market economy. There are innumerable verses in the Qur'an that link “economic” activity with the moral dimension of its ultimate purpose. Three kinds of economic action are discussed: zakat, the third pillar of Islam; personal expenditure; and collectivity.Less
Muslims, like everyone else, observe the phenomenon of globalization: they study its basic precepts and its logic; they perceive its serious ethical shortcomings; but they hardly offer an alternative, or at least a critical perspective on the basis of the scriptural sources and an understanding of the context. In the meantime, the opposite phenomenon is emerging: the Islamic world has produced economic and financial institutions that, by trying to arrange, within but on the fringes of the system on a small scale, so-called Islamic transactions which, without riba (usury), condone and affirm the logic of the global system because they do not resist it. The whole of the Islamic world is in subjection to the market economy. There are innumerable verses in the Qur'an that link “economic” activity with the moral dimension of its ultimate purpose. Three kinds of economic action are discussed: zakat, the third pillar of Islam; personal expenditure; and collectivity.
Lewis H. Siegelbaum (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449918
- eISBN:
- 9780801463211
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449918.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ...
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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The “Socialist Car”—and the car culture that built up around it—was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. This book explores the interface between the motor car and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the Socialist Car embodied East Europeans’ longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The Socialist Car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility—shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways—prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. This collective history puts aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the Socialist Car in its own context.Less
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The “Socialist Car”—and the car culture that built up around it—was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. This book explores the interface between the motor car and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the Socialist Car embodied East Europeans’ longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The Socialist Car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility—shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways—prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. This collective history puts aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the Socialist Car in its own context.
Rihan Yeh
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226511887
- eISBN:
- 9780226512075
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226512075.003.0012
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
The conclusion briefly summarizes some of the book’s key implications. First, Tijuana’s two publics speak to the role of borders worldwide in reconfiguring social difference and inequality today. ...
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The conclusion briefly summarizes some of the book’s key implications. First, Tijuana’s two publics speak to the role of borders worldwide in reconfiguring social difference and inequality today. Second, they do so by showing the intimate mechanics of US imperial power, how it extends itself into people’s very sense of themselves. Third, by resituating the question of mass we-ness within this transnational system of recognition and social differentiation, clase media and pueblo in Tijuana both suggest ways beyond liberal publicity as a model for collectivity. Finally, the hearsay public grounds the book’s contributions in its own ethical project of witnessing and passing on.Less
The conclusion briefly summarizes some of the book’s key implications. First, Tijuana’s two publics speak to the role of borders worldwide in reconfiguring social difference and inequality today. Second, they do so by showing the intimate mechanics of US imperial power, how it extends itself into people’s very sense of themselves. Third, by resituating the question of mass we-ness within this transnational system of recognition and social differentiation, clase media and pueblo in Tijuana both suggest ways beyond liberal publicity as a model for collectivity. Finally, the hearsay public grounds the book’s contributions in its own ethical project of witnessing and passing on.
Siona Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816685738
- eISBN:
- 9781452950648
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685738.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a ...
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Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady period. Collective practice, grassroots activism, and iconoclastic challenges to society’s sexual norms are all fundamental elements of this theoretically informed history. The book provides fresh assessments of key feminist figures and introduces readers to less widely known artists such as Jo Spence and controversial groups like COUM Transmissions. Wilson’s interpretations of two of the best-known (and infamous) exhibitions of feminist art—Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document and COUM Transmissions’ Prostitution—supply a historical context that reveals these works anew. Together these analyses demonstrate that feminist attention to sexual difference, sex, and psychic formation reconfigures received categories of labor and politics. How—and how much—do sexual politics transform our approach to aesthetic debates? What effect do the tropes of sexual difference and labor have on the conception of the political within cultural practice? These questions animate Art Labor, Sex Politics as it illuminates an intense and influential decade of intellectual and artistic experimentation.Less
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady period. Collective practice, grassroots activism, and iconoclastic challenges to society’s sexual norms are all fundamental elements of this theoretically informed history. The book provides fresh assessments of key feminist figures and introduces readers to less widely known artists such as Jo Spence and controversial groups like COUM Transmissions. Wilson’s interpretations of two of the best-known (and infamous) exhibitions of feminist art—Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document and COUM Transmissions’ Prostitution—supply a historical context that reveals these works anew. Together these analyses demonstrate that feminist attention to sexual difference, sex, and psychic formation reconfigures received categories of labor and politics. How—and how much—do sexual politics transform our approach to aesthetic debates? What effect do the tropes of sexual difference and labor have on the conception of the political within cultural practice? These questions animate Art Labor, Sex Politics as it illuminates an intense and influential decade of intellectual and artistic experimentation.
R. F. Casten
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198507246
- eISBN:
- 9780191709333
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198507246.003.0006
- Subject:
- Physics, Nuclear and Plasma Physics
The shell model is generally considered the fundamental nuclear model and works best for light nuclei. More fundamental to the shell model's central position in nuclear physics is that it provides a ...
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The shell model is generally considered the fundamental nuclear model and works best for light nuclei. More fundamental to the shell model's central position in nuclear physics is that it provides a well-defined procedure for the calculation of basic nuclear observables. However, the use of the shell model is, in practice, rather severely limited. While shell model calculations for multi-shell configurations are certainly possible, the size of the matrices in which the residual interaction must be diagonalised rapidly becomes enormous. This chapter deals with collectivity and collective excitations in spherical even–even nuclei, focusing on vibrational and rotational motion. Non-diagonal matrix elements of short-range two-body residual interactions are considered, along with quadrupole vibrations and atomic nuclei with stable and permanent deformations, rotations and vibrations of axially symmetric deformed nuclei, bandmixing and rotation-vibration coupling, axially asymmetric nuclei, the interacting boson model, and the geometric collective model of nuclear structure.Less
The shell model is generally considered the fundamental nuclear model and works best for light nuclei. More fundamental to the shell model's central position in nuclear physics is that it provides a well-defined procedure for the calculation of basic nuclear observables. However, the use of the shell model is, in practice, rather severely limited. While shell model calculations for multi-shell configurations are certainly possible, the size of the matrices in which the residual interaction must be diagonalised rapidly becomes enormous. This chapter deals with collectivity and collective excitations in spherical even–even nuclei, focusing on vibrational and rotational motion. Non-diagonal matrix elements of short-range two-body residual interactions are considered, along with quadrupole vibrations and atomic nuclei with stable and permanent deformations, rotations and vibrations of axially symmetric deformed nuclei, bandmixing and rotation-vibration coupling, axially asymmetric nuclei, the interacting boson model, and the geometric collective model of nuclear structure.
RIZWAAN JAMEEL MOKAL
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199264872
- eISBN:
- 9780191718397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264872.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter delves into the nature of the pari passu principle, which supposedly requires all unsecured claims of an insolvent company to be met proportionately from the insolvent's estate. It ...
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This chapter delves into the nature of the pari passu principle, which supposedly requires all unsecured claims of an insolvent company to be met proportionately from the insolvent's estate. It argues that there is widespread misunderstanding about the role of this principle. The principle is claimed by commentators to be responsible for the orderliness of corporate liquidation, to explain and justify the collectivity of the liquidation regime and the rules providing for the avoidance (or more accurately, adjustment) of certain types of transaction, and to ensure fairness to all of the insolvent's creditors. The central claim in the chapter —that none of these functions can properly be attributed to the principle —is illustrated by empirical evidence of how the estates of insolvent companies are in fact distributed, the statutory provisions which help put the principle in its proper place, and the case law said to support it. The Authentic Consent Model is deployed to demonstrate that the pari passu rule —often called the ‘equality’ principle—has little to do with ‘real’ equality. The chapter shows what it claims is the actual role of ‘formal’ equality of the sort enshrined in the ‘equality’ principle.Less
This chapter delves into the nature of the pari passu principle, which supposedly requires all unsecured claims of an insolvent company to be met proportionately from the insolvent's estate. It argues that there is widespread misunderstanding about the role of this principle. The principle is claimed by commentators to be responsible for the orderliness of corporate liquidation, to explain and justify the collectivity of the liquidation regime and the rules providing for the avoidance (or more accurately, adjustment) of certain types of transaction, and to ensure fairness to all of the insolvent's creditors. The central claim in the chapter —that none of these functions can properly be attributed to the principle —is illustrated by empirical evidence of how the estates of insolvent companies are in fact distributed, the statutory provisions which help put the principle in its proper place, and the case law said to support it. The Authentic Consent Model is deployed to demonstrate that the pari passu rule —often called the ‘equality’ principle—has little to do with ‘real’ equality. The chapter shows what it claims is the actual role of ‘formal’ equality of the sort enshrined in the ‘equality’ principle.
Annika Mann
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823281725
- eISBN:
- 9780823284870
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823281725.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter reconsiders the emergence of political economy, biology, and literature as separate fields of research—disciplines—by examining representations of noxious generation in the politics and ...
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This chapter reconsiders the emergence of political economy, biology, and literature as separate fields of research—disciplines—by examining representations of noxious generation in the politics and poetry of the late eighteenth century. In the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine over the status of the French Revolution, both writers collapse biological theories of reproduction and political theories of social collectivity, depicting generation as the proliferation of embodied collectives stimulated by print. In their poems The First Book of Urizen (1794) and “To a Little Invisible Being, Soon to Become Visible” (probably composed in 1799), William Blake and Anna Barbauld critique that collapse, even as they reflect upon how that collapse is itself facilitated by the tools of poetic discourse, by form and figure. Both poets explore how the “visible form” of writing, the structure of the book, and the figure of the womb are complicit in the generation of new kinds of bodies in the world. In so doing, Blake and Barbauld expose the unavoidably shared ground of poets, political economists, and scientists at the very moment those writers began increasingly articulating their own separateness.Less
This chapter reconsiders the emergence of political economy, biology, and literature as separate fields of research—disciplines—by examining representations of noxious generation in the politics and poetry of the late eighteenth century. In the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine over the status of the French Revolution, both writers collapse biological theories of reproduction and political theories of social collectivity, depicting generation as the proliferation of embodied collectives stimulated by print. In their poems The First Book of Urizen (1794) and “To a Little Invisible Being, Soon to Become Visible” (probably composed in 1799), William Blake and Anna Barbauld critique that collapse, even as they reflect upon how that collapse is itself facilitated by the tools of poetic discourse, by form and figure. Both poets explore how the “visible form” of writing, the structure of the book, and the figure of the womb are complicit in the generation of new kinds of bodies in the world. In so doing, Blake and Barbauld expose the unavoidably shared ground of poets, political economists, and scientists at the very moment those writers began increasingly articulating their own separateness.
