Iain Mclean and Alistair McMillan
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199258208
- eISBN:
- 9780191603334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258201.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The motives of the pro- and anti-Union forces in Scotland in the years leading to 1707 are analysed. It is shown that they were mixed, but that trade, security, and material interests all played a ...
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The motives of the pro- and anti-Union forces in Scotland in the years leading to 1707 are analysed. It is shown that they were mixed, but that trade, security, and material interests all played a role. The first ever analysis of flows of the vote in the last Scottish Parliament identifies the swing voters. The union was a genuine bargain, in which each side possessed credible threats. The paradoxical establishment of two rival churches is analysed.Less
The motives of the pro- and anti-Union forces in Scotland in the years leading to 1707 are analysed. It is shown that they were mixed, but that trade, security, and material interests all played a role. The first ever analysis of flows of the vote in the last Scottish Parliament identifies the swing voters. The union was a genuine bargain, in which each side possessed credible threats. The paradoxical establishment of two rival churches is analysed.
Nick Mansfield
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232413
- eISBN:
- 9780823235735
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232413.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the “war on terror,” the issue of the extent ...
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No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the “war on terror,” the issue of the extent and nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of subjectivity to explain its meaning and facilitate its operation. The aim of this book is to help outline Jacques Derrida's thinking on sovereignty—a theme which increasingly attracted Derrida towards the end of his career—in its relationship to subjectivity. It investigates the late work Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, as not only Derrida's fullest statement of his thinking on sovereignty, but also as the destination of his career-long interest in questions of politics and self-identity. The book argues that in Derrida's thinking of the relationship between sovereignty and subjectivity—and the related themes of unconditionality and ipseity—we can detect the outline of Bataille's adaptation of Freud. Freud completed his “metapsychology,” by defining the “economic” nature of subjectivity. In Bataille's hands, this economic theory became a key to the nature of inter-relationship in general, specifically the complex and shifting relationship between subjectivity and power. In playing with Bataille's legacy, Derrida connects not only with the irrepressibly outrageous thinking of philosophy's most self-consciously transgressive thinker, but with the early twentieth century scientific revolution through which “energy” became ontology.Less
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the “war on terror,” the issue of the extent and nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of subjectivity to explain its meaning and facilitate its operation. The aim of this book is to help outline Jacques Derrida's thinking on sovereignty—a theme which increasingly attracted Derrida towards the end of his career—in its relationship to subjectivity. It investigates the late work Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, as not only Derrida's fullest statement of his thinking on sovereignty, but also as the destination of his career-long interest in questions of politics and self-identity. The book argues that in Derrida's thinking of the relationship between sovereignty and subjectivity—and the related themes of unconditionality and ipseity—we can detect the outline of Bataille's adaptation of Freud. Freud completed his “metapsychology,” by defining the “economic” nature of subjectivity. In Bataille's hands, this economic theory became a key to the nature of inter-relationship in general, specifically the complex and shifting relationship between subjectivity and power. In playing with Bataille's legacy, Derrida connects not only with the irrepressibly outrageous thinking of philosophy's most self-consciously transgressive thinker, but with the early twentieth century scientific revolution through which “energy” became ontology.
Mary Burke
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566464
- eISBN:
- 9780191721670
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566464.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The history of the Irish minority Traveller community is not analogous to that of the ‘tinker’, a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by 16th-century British and continental Rogue Literature that ...
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The history of the Irish minority Traveller community is not analogous to that of the ‘tinker’, a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by 16th-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J. M. Synge’s influential The Tinker’s Wedding was pivotal to this ‘Irishing’ of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure’s cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge’s empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-Independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the ‘tinker’ fantasy. Such change shapes contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Travele as lovable ‘white trash’ rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the ‘tinker’ is much more central to Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognized.Less
The history of the Irish minority Traveller community is not analogous to that of the ‘tinker’, a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by 16th-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J. M. Synge’s influential The Tinker’s Wedding was pivotal to this ‘Irishing’ of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure’s cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge’s empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-Independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the ‘tinker’ fantasy. Such change shapes contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Travele as lovable ‘white trash’ rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the ‘tinker’ is much more central to Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognized.
Robert Miklitsch
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043611
- eISBN:
- 9780252052491
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043611.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The Age of Affluence. Ike and Mamie. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. In the United States, the 1950s have been memorialized as the Pax Americana. A similar stereotypical view has characterized the ...
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The Age of Affluence. Ike and Mamie. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. In the United States, the 1950s have been memorialized as the Pax Americana. A similar stereotypical view has characterized the 1950s crime film. While the big-shot gangster dominated the headlines in the 1930s and the private eye graced the 1940s, both the gangster picture and film noir were declared DOA in the 1950s. There is, of course, another, less than perfect picture of the ’50s in which the tropes associated with the decade are rather darker. Commies. Aliens from outer space. The bomb. I Died a Million Times argues that the crime film is alive and well in the 1950s in the generic guise of gangster noir. The corpus delicti is a trio of subgenres that crystallized in the period and that correlates with the above symptomatic events: the syndicate picture, the rogue cop film, and the heist movie. These subgenres and the issues associated with them--the “combo” as capitalism incarnate, the letter of the law versus the lure of vigilantism, and the heist as a “left-handed form of human endeavor”--may appear black and white in the rearview mirror of history, but from another perspective, one that’s attentive to issues such as race (The Phenix City Story), class (The Prowler), gender (The Big Heat), sexuality (The Big Combo), the nation (The Asphalt Jungle), and the border (Touch of Evil), these signal, not-so-generic films are as vibrant and colorful as the decade itself.Less
The Age of Affluence. Ike and Mamie. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. In the United States, the 1950s have been memorialized as the Pax Americana. A similar stereotypical view has characterized the 1950s crime film. While the big-shot gangster dominated the headlines in the 1930s and the private eye graced the 1940s, both the gangster picture and film noir were declared DOA in the 1950s. There is, of course, another, less than perfect picture of the ’50s in which the tropes associated with the decade are rather darker. Commies. Aliens from outer space. The bomb. I Died a Million Times argues that the crime film is alive and well in the 1950s in the generic guise of gangster noir. The corpus delicti is a trio of subgenres that crystallized in the period and that correlates with the above symptomatic events: the syndicate picture, the rogue cop film, and the heist movie. These subgenres and the issues associated with them--the “combo” as capitalism incarnate, the letter of the law versus the lure of vigilantism, and the heist as a “left-handed form of human endeavor”--may appear black and white in the rearview mirror of history, but from another perspective, one that’s attentive to issues such as race (The Phenix City Story), class (The Prowler), gender (The Big Heat), sexuality (The Big Combo), the nation (The Asphalt Jungle), and the border (Touch of Evil), these signal, not-so-generic films are as vibrant and colorful as the decade itself.
Dúnlaith Bird
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644162
- eISBN:
- 9780199949984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of ...
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This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of mobility and gender construction. The chapter begins by mapping the development of vagabondage from its historical origins to its reformulation as women’s movement from 1850. From forced economic migration in fourteenth-century Europe, vagabondage gradually metamorphoses into a criminal activity, a seditious plague on the nation state, as close textual analysis of Royal Statutes from Britain and France shows. It also constitutes a marginal literary movement, from Elizabethan rogue’s literature to Victor Hugo’s vagabond heroes. The chapter uses Isabelle Eberhardt’s early travel writing and Colette’s La Vagabonde (1911) to elucidate the central characteristics and themes of women’s vagabondage. The final section examines official repression of female vagabondage and the appearance of modern ‘rogue literature’ as a response to this repression in the travelogues of Freya Stark.Less
This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of mobility and gender construction. The chapter begins by mapping the development of vagabondage from its historical origins to its reformulation as women’s movement from 1850. From forced economic migration in fourteenth-century Europe, vagabondage gradually metamorphoses into a criminal activity, a seditious plague on the nation state, as close textual analysis of Royal Statutes from Britain and France shows. It also constitutes a marginal literary movement, from Elizabethan rogue’s literature to Victor Hugo’s vagabond heroes. The chapter uses Isabelle Eberhardt’s early travel writing and Colette’s La Vagabonde (1911) to elucidate the central characteristics and themes of women’s vagabondage. The final section examines official repression of female vagabondage and the appearance of modern ‘rogue literature’ as a response to this repression in the travelogues of Freya Stark.
Patrick Parrinder
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199264858
- eISBN:
- 9780191698989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264858.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Prose fiction came in late in European literature. Before the Elizabethan period, original short stories and romance narratives consisted of just prose fiction. The prose fiction works of Malory, ...
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Prose fiction came in late in European literature. Before the Elizabethan period, original short stories and romance narratives consisted of just prose fiction. The prose fiction works of Malory, Nashe, Lyly, Wilton, and other popular novelists are discussed in the chapter. The changing usage of the word cavalier is also examined in the chapter. It used to mean a gentleman trained to arms, but its modern usage refers to an escort of a lady. A clash of ideas between Puritanism and cavalier values happened fifty years before the Civil War. During the 17th century, rogue narratives came to be connected with the Royal Period. The central theme during the Civil War period was the contradicting ideas of anarchism and the rule of law.Less
Prose fiction came in late in European literature. Before the Elizabethan period, original short stories and romance narratives consisted of just prose fiction. The prose fiction works of Malory, Nashe, Lyly, Wilton, and other popular novelists are discussed in the chapter. The changing usage of the word cavalier is also examined in the chapter. It used to mean a gentleman trained to arms, but its modern usage refers to an escort of a lady. A clash of ideas between Puritanism and cavalier values happened fifty years before the Civil War. During the 17th century, rogue narratives came to be connected with the Royal Period. The central theme during the Civil War period was the contradicting ideas of anarchism and the rule of law.
Mary Burke
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566464
- eISBN:
- 9780191721670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566464.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The opening chapter traces the various imagined ‘Easts’ from which the purported pre-Gaelic ancestors of tinkers and the Oriental antecedents of European Gypsies emerged. The Revival-era theory of ...
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The opening chapter traces the various imagined ‘Easts’ from which the purported pre-Gaelic ancestors of tinkers and the Oriental antecedents of European Gypsies emerged. The Revival-era theory of tinkers’ pre-Celtic origins drew upon medieval traditions of the vanquished but extant Oriental inhabitants of antediluvian Ireland. Additionally, early modern English classifications of rogues proto-racialized the formerly occupational category of ‘tinker’. Consequently, these exotic associations accompanied the term tinker when the spread of English in Ireland in the 19th century allowed the word to displace unethnicized Irish-language designations for peripatetic peoples. European Enlightenment scholarship linking Gypsies to a distant Indian homeland simultaneously Orientalized a British Gypsy class previously considered native. In the work of Walter Scott, this exoticized Gypsy usurped the indigenous Hiberno-Scottish ‘tinkler’ category, facilitating the perceived retreat of that figure from the whole of the British Isles to its Irish edge by the Victorian period.Less
The opening chapter traces the various imagined ‘Easts’ from which the purported pre-Gaelic ancestors of tinkers and the Oriental antecedents of European Gypsies emerged. The Revival-era theory of tinkers’ pre-Celtic origins drew upon medieval traditions of the vanquished but extant Oriental inhabitants of antediluvian Ireland. Additionally, early modern English classifications of rogues proto-racialized the formerly occupational category of ‘tinker’. Consequently, these exotic associations accompanied the term tinker when the spread of English in Ireland in the 19th century allowed the word to displace unethnicized Irish-language designations for peripatetic peoples. European Enlightenment scholarship linking Gypsies to a distant Indian homeland simultaneously Orientalized a British Gypsy class previously considered native. In the work of Walter Scott, this exoticized Gypsy usurped the indigenous Hiberno-Scottish ‘tinkler’ category, facilitating the perceived retreat of that figure from the whole of the British Isles to its Irish edge by the Victorian period.
Denise Meyerson
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198248194
- eISBN:
- 9780191681073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198248194.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Marcuse says not merely that ‘false needs…perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery and injustice’, but also that they are ‘determined by external powers over which the individual has no control’. This ...
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Marcuse says not merely that ‘false needs…perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery and injustice’, but also that they are ‘determined by external powers over which the individual has no control’. This chapter investigates whether the history of a desire can be a defect in it, and in particular whether the history of ideological desires makes for a defect. This chapter argues that ideological desires are rogue because their causation is abnormal and they are destructive of our freedom. Desires which are abnormally caused are likely to be foreign to human nature, impediments to whatever is effective psychological functioning for us, and that means they are likely to diminish our freedom. False consciousness and freedom is compatible with the truth of determinism. Certain ways of influencing people's characters and dispositions are likely to produce individuals who enjoy freedom.Less
Marcuse says not merely that ‘false needs…perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery and injustice’, but also that they are ‘determined by external powers over which the individual has no control’. This chapter investigates whether the history of a desire can be a defect in it, and in particular whether the history of ideological desires makes for a defect. This chapter argues that ideological desires are rogue because their causation is abnormal and they are destructive of our freedom. Desires which are abnormally caused are likely to be foreign to human nature, impediments to whatever is effective psychological functioning for us, and that means they are likely to diminish our freedom. False consciousness and freedom is compatible with the truth of determinism. Certain ways of influencing people's characters and dispositions are likely to produce individuals who enjoy freedom.
Sal Nicolazzo
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780300241310
- eISBN:
- 9780300255706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300241310.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter argues that in the late seventeenth century, vagrancy statutes are in formal conversation with the picaresque novel as both genres begin to circulate transatlantically. It contextualizes ...
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This chapter argues that in the late seventeenth century, vagrancy statutes are in formal conversation with the picaresque novel as both genres begin to circulate transatlantically. It contextualizes Richard Head's 1665 novel The English Rogue — widely regarded to be the first picaresque novel written in English — in the rapid expansion of the Atlantic trade in bound servants. The chapter then proposes a new way of understanding the genre of the picaresque and its relation to the law. Scholars of early modern picaresque and its affiliated genres have long noted that the literary figure of the “rogue and vagabond” circulated in popular print before it became a legal category. However, in the late seventeenth century, as vagrancy law became an increasingly important tool for the management of impoverished populations and the distribution of these populations' labor across empire, the chapter reads picaresque not for the singular figure of the rogue, but for the way the genre's narrative structure allows for the conceptualization of populations and geographies.Less
This chapter argues that in the late seventeenth century, vagrancy statutes are in formal conversation with the picaresque novel as both genres begin to circulate transatlantically. It contextualizes Richard Head's 1665 novel The English Rogue — widely regarded to be the first picaresque novel written in English — in the rapid expansion of the Atlantic trade in bound servants. The chapter then proposes a new way of understanding the genre of the picaresque and its relation to the law. Scholars of early modern picaresque and its affiliated genres have long noted that the literary figure of the “rogue and vagabond” circulated in popular print before it became a legal category. However, in the late seventeenth century, as vagrancy law became an increasingly important tool for the management of impoverished populations and the distribution of these populations' labor across empire, the chapter reads picaresque not for the singular figure of the rogue, but for the way the genre's narrative structure allows for the conceptualization of populations and geographies.
Steven Hurst
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627677
- eISBN:
- 9780748672103
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627677.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The Persian Gulf War thus left Saddam Hussein in power with question marks remaining over the extent of Iraq's WMD programmes. Abandoning power-balancing strategies, the Clinton administration ...
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The Persian Gulf War thus left Saddam Hussein in power with question marks remaining over the extent of Iraq's WMD programmes. Abandoning power-balancing strategies, the Clinton administration adopted a policy of ‘dual containment’ of both Iran and Iraq. In the case of latter, Saddam's regime was to be kept under control and disarmed through a combination of sanctions, weapons inspections and air strikes. Over time, however, this regime gradually weakened as international support for it faded. By the end of the Clinton administration Saddam remained in power, weapons inspections remained incomplete and the effort to contain Iraq was crumbling. Meanwhile, within the United States, right-wing pressure to take decisive action to remove Saddam from power was growing.Less
The Persian Gulf War thus left Saddam Hussein in power with question marks remaining over the extent of Iraq's WMD programmes. Abandoning power-balancing strategies, the Clinton administration adopted a policy of ‘dual containment’ of both Iran and Iraq. In the case of latter, Saddam's regime was to be kept under control and disarmed through a combination of sanctions, weapons inspections and air strikes. Over time, however, this regime gradually weakened as international support for it faded. By the end of the Clinton administration Saddam remained in power, weapons inspections remained incomplete and the effort to contain Iraq was crumbling. Meanwhile, within the United States, right-wing pressure to take decisive action to remove Saddam from power was growing.
Daniel Cook
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474487139
- eISBN:
- 9781399501903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487139.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
As a theorist, Scott opposed what he perceived to be the formal unscrupulousness of the fantastic. As a practitioner, he appreciated the new ways in which the mode could endlessly shape his ...
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As a theorist, Scott opposed what he perceived to be the formal unscrupulousness of the fantastic. As a practitioner, he appreciated the new ways in which the mode could endlessly shape his storytelling, confident in both his own honed craftsmanship and his long-established reputation as a reliable storyteller. After all, Donnerhugel’s supernatural story in Anne of Geierstein at least acknowledges that competing genres exist, and therefore that there are rules, however we choose to treat them. An unfinished novel, Bizarro has been all but ignored by critics. Read instead as ‘a tale’, it closely resembles ‘The Two Drovers’ in its taut execution and thematic structuring. Scott’s persistent challenge to form and genre throughout ‘Donnerhugel’s Narrative’ (in Anne of Geierstein), ‘The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple’ (in The Bride of Lammermoor) and Bizarro, as demonstrated in this chapter, reveals the storyteller’s more pronounced reliance on plot (including broken, deferred or twisted plotlines) as a vehicle for metafictional queries about modern authorship at the end of his career.Less
As a theorist, Scott opposed what he perceived to be the formal unscrupulousness of the fantastic. As a practitioner, he appreciated the new ways in which the mode could endlessly shape his storytelling, confident in both his own honed craftsmanship and his long-established reputation as a reliable storyteller. After all, Donnerhugel’s supernatural story in Anne of Geierstein at least acknowledges that competing genres exist, and therefore that there are rules, however we choose to treat them. An unfinished novel, Bizarro has been all but ignored by critics. Read instead as ‘a tale’, it closely resembles ‘The Two Drovers’ in its taut execution and thematic structuring. Scott’s persistent challenge to form and genre throughout ‘Donnerhugel’s Narrative’ (in Anne of Geierstein), ‘The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple’ (in The Bride of Lammermoor) and Bizarro, as demonstrated in this chapter, reveals the storyteller’s more pronounced reliance on plot (including broken, deferred or twisted plotlines) as a vehicle for metafictional queries about modern authorship at the end of his career.
Samuel Weber
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823226443
- eISBN:
- 9780823237043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823226443.003.0021
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The United States uses the phrase “rogue states” to designate not only a state that “relies on acts of terror” itself, but also “terrorists”, who presumably are not ...
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The United States uses the phrase “rogue states” to designate not only a state that “relies on acts of terror” itself, but also “terrorists”, who presumably are not integral parts of the state. Thus, rogue states are held to subcontract out what traditionally has been regarded as their exclusive prerogative: the massive and systemic use of violence. The notion of “rogue” therefore marks the turning point at which the legitimate use of violence by the nation-state is delegated to non-state agents who, precisely because they do not wear the uniforms or uniformity of the state, are increasingly difficult to identify, localize, and anticipate. In his latest writings, especially the “trilogy” consisting of Specters of Marx, “Faith and Knowledge”, and Rogues, Jacques Derrida argues that the place and function of the body politic is taken by the demos, now no longer seen as the fuller and universal expression of humanity but as something—some “thing”—that precedes, exceeds, surrounds, and traverses the conceptions and instances of sovereignty and nationhood, freedom and community.Less
The United States uses the phrase “rogue states” to designate not only a state that “relies on acts of terror” itself, but also “terrorists”, who presumably are not integral parts of the state. Thus, rogue states are held to subcontract out what traditionally has been regarded as their exclusive prerogative: the massive and systemic use of violence. The notion of “rogue” therefore marks the turning point at which the legitimate use of violence by the nation-state is delegated to non-state agents who, precisely because they do not wear the uniforms or uniformity of the state, are increasingly difficult to identify, localize, and anticipate. In his latest writings, especially the “trilogy” consisting of Specters of Marx, “Faith and Knowledge”, and Rogues, Jacques Derrida argues that the place and function of the body politic is taken by the demos, now no longer seen as the fuller and universal expression of humanity but as something—some “thing”—that precedes, exceeds, surrounds, and traverses the conceptions and instances of sovereignty and nationhood, freedom and community.
Nick Mansfield
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232413
- eISBN:
- 9780823235735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232413.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's essay Rogues by way of a discussion of messianism and the event in his book Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning & the New ...
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This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's essay Rogues by way of a discussion of messianism and the event in his book Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning & the New International. The irreducible doubleness in the living present between conjunction and disjunction provides insights into Derrida's understanding of the notion of justice. He believes that there are two styles of justice, one is enacted and realized justice and other is justice associated with the gift.Less
This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's essay Rogues by way of a discussion of messianism and the event in his book Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning & the New International. The irreducible doubleness in the living present between conjunction and disjunction provides insights into Derrida's understanding of the notion of justice. He believes that there are two styles of justice, one is enacted and realized justice and other is justice associated with the gift.
Brian Mcnair
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634460
- eISBN:
- 9780748670925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634460.003.0009
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes the representation of journalists in cinema as best, lovable rogues and as worst, loathsome reptiles. Runaway Bride stars Richard Gere in the lovable rogue role, opposite Julia ...
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This chapter describes the representation of journalists in cinema as best, lovable rogues and as worst, loathsome reptiles. Runaway Bride stars Richard Gere in the lovable rogue role, opposite Julia Roberts as a woman, Maggie Carpenter, who repeated leaves her fiancés at the altar. The representation of the journalist-as-reptile may be viewed both as a warning to the public in a democracy that their media are at worst akin to predators running wild, and that they bear some responsibility for putting them back in their cage. The Ace in the Hole, Mad City, To Die For and Natural Born Killers are four films which illustrate the journalist-as-reptile sub-type. The bad girl trio depicted in Rag Tale were as bad as it got in that decade and in the film these women were only doing what they had to do to get by in a working environment of brutish male hacks.Less
This chapter describes the representation of journalists in cinema as best, lovable rogues and as worst, loathsome reptiles. Runaway Bride stars Richard Gere in the lovable rogue role, opposite Julia Roberts as a woman, Maggie Carpenter, who repeated leaves her fiancés at the altar. The representation of the journalist-as-reptile may be viewed both as a warning to the public in a democracy that their media are at worst akin to predators running wild, and that they bear some responsibility for putting them back in their cage. The Ace in the Hole, Mad City, To Die For and Natural Born Killers are four films which illustrate the journalist-as-reptile sub-type. The bad girl trio depicted in Rag Tale were as bad as it got in that decade and in the film these women were only doing what they had to do to get by in a working environment of brutish male hacks.
Gill Plain
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621071
- eISBN:
- 9780748651092
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621071.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Comedy is a form that facilitates the disruption of gender norms, both through the stereotypical inversions of the hen-pecked husband and the shrewish wife, and through more subtle manipulations of ...
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Comedy is a form that facilitates the disruption of gender norms, both through the stereotypical inversions of the hen-pecked husband and the shrewish wife, and through more subtle manipulations of conventional gender roles. But what can the transgressions of comedy and John Mills's intermittent performances in comic roles tell us about the changing shape of English masculinity? While actors such as Terry Thomas, Richard Attenborough and George Cole became part of a cross-class gallery of English rogues, fools were perhaps most memorably embodied by Ian Carmichael and Norman Wisdom. In the post-war world it became increasingly impossible for the contemporary Everyman to be anything other than comic, because only from the fool's privileged position of social illiteracy could the fast-reforming boundaries of society be disrupted. In a hybrid decade of radical impulse and reactionary practice, misunderstanding the rules became the most ‘acceptable’ way of challenging them. This chapter examines three Mills comedies: The History of Mr Polly (1949), Hobson's Choice (1954) and Ryan's Daughter (1970).Less
Comedy is a form that facilitates the disruption of gender norms, both through the stereotypical inversions of the hen-pecked husband and the shrewish wife, and through more subtle manipulations of conventional gender roles. But what can the transgressions of comedy and John Mills's intermittent performances in comic roles tell us about the changing shape of English masculinity? While actors such as Terry Thomas, Richard Attenborough and George Cole became part of a cross-class gallery of English rogues, fools were perhaps most memorably embodied by Ian Carmichael and Norman Wisdom. In the post-war world it became increasingly impossible for the contemporary Everyman to be anything other than comic, because only from the fool's privileged position of social illiteracy could the fast-reforming boundaries of society be disrupted. In a hybrid decade of radical impulse and reactionary practice, misunderstanding the rules became the most ‘acceptable’ way of challenging them. This chapter examines three Mills comedies: The History of Mr Polly (1949), Hobson's Choice (1954) and Ryan's Daughter (1970).
Natalie Bormann
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074707
- eISBN:
- 9781781701331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074707.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter serves as an account of what missile defence is. It shows how the missile defence system is located within the overall US thinking of security and observes that missile defence has ...
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This chapter serves as an account of what missile defence is. It shows how the missile defence system is located within the overall US thinking of security and observes that missile defence has certain assumptions on the evolving perceptions of threat to US security. The chapter explains how a missile defence system aimed at new threats violates the principles of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Next, it clarifies what exactly the new threats entail – as stated in the Bottom-Up Review and the ‘rogue states doctrine’ – before considering the idea of deploying a missile defence shield. The last part of the chapter outlines the development of the defence mechanism from 1944 to 2003.Less
This chapter serves as an account of what missile defence is. It shows how the missile defence system is located within the overall US thinking of security and observes that missile defence has certain assumptions on the evolving perceptions of threat to US security. The chapter explains how a missile defence system aimed at new threats violates the principles of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Next, it clarifies what exactly the new threats entail – as stated in the Bottom-Up Review and the ‘rogue states doctrine’ – before considering the idea of deploying a missile defence shield. The last part of the chapter outlines the development of the defence mechanism from 1944 to 2003.
Natalie Bormann
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074707
- eISBN:
- 9781781701331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074707.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter reviews some of the key arguments that are in favour of NMD, and considers some of the lasting assumptions about the character of security and threat, as well as the concept of policy ...
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This chapter reviews some of the key arguments that are in favour of NMD, and considers some of the lasting assumptions about the character of security and threat, as well as the concept of policy positivism. It then studies foreign policy as a practice central to the notion of ‘narrative activity’. The chapter also considers the intersection of foreign policy and identity, the influence of ‘what if’ statements and the meanings associated with ballistic missiles. It determines that the specific context of a proliferation ‘problem’ has made the construed picture of a rogue other a valid threat which is understood in the US foreign policy.Less
This chapter reviews some of the key arguments that are in favour of NMD, and considers some of the lasting assumptions about the character of security and threat, as well as the concept of policy positivism. It then studies foreign policy as a practice central to the notion of ‘narrative activity’. The chapter also considers the intersection of foreign policy and identity, the influence of ‘what if’ statements and the meanings associated with ballistic missiles. It determines that the specific context of a proliferation ‘problem’ has made the construed picture of a rogue other a valid threat which is understood in the US foreign policy.
J. C. Sharman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450181
- eISBN:
- 9780801463198
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450181.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines how blacklisting, and the threat of being blacklisted, helps promote policy diffusion with regards to anti-money laundering (AML). It first provides a historical background of ...
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This chapter examines how blacklisting, and the threat of being blacklisted, helps promote policy diffusion with regards to anti-money laundering (AML). It first provides a historical background of the rise, decline, and rise of blacklisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) before discussing the evidence for the effectiveness of blacklisting. In particular, it assesses the experiences of different kinds of states such as the Cayman Islands, Nauru, Austria, and two isolated and xenophobic “rogue states,” Burma and North Korea. The chapter shows that the majority of the jurisdictions in the firing line due to the June 2000 release of the first iteration of the Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories (NCCT) list were small island offshore financial centers or tax havens. The chapter also considers the effect of the blacklists on third-party states and how blacklists constitute a novel form of international coercion. It argues that the act of blacklisting has damaged the reputation, status, or standing of countries on the list in the eyes of third parties, including both states and private firms.Less
This chapter examines how blacklisting, and the threat of being blacklisted, helps promote policy diffusion with regards to anti-money laundering (AML). It first provides a historical background of the rise, decline, and rise of blacklisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) before discussing the evidence for the effectiveness of blacklisting. In particular, it assesses the experiences of different kinds of states such as the Cayman Islands, Nauru, Austria, and two isolated and xenophobic “rogue states,” Burma and North Korea. The chapter shows that the majority of the jurisdictions in the firing line due to the June 2000 release of the first iteration of the Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories (NCCT) list were small island offshore financial centers or tax havens. The chapter also considers the effect of the blacklists on third-party states and how blacklists constitute a novel form of international coercion. It argues that the act of blacklisting has damaged the reputation, status, or standing of countries on the list in the eyes of third parties, including both states and private firms.
Robert Miklitsch
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043611
- eISBN:
- 9780252052491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043611.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The introduction proffers some cultural, political, and historical contexts for the emergence of the three subgenres of gangster noir discussed in the body of the book: the syndicate, rogue cop, and ...
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The introduction proffers some cultural, political, and historical contexts for the emergence of the three subgenres of gangster noir discussed in the body of the book: the syndicate, rogue cop, and heist pictures. The first part examines the impact of the Kefauver Crime Commission on early ’50s syndicate films such as The Enforcer (1950). The second part introduces the rogue cop figure via a representative transitional film, John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951), and then turns to the ideological contradictions--“good cop/bad cop”--associated with the Dragnet phenomenon, a paradoxical configuration illustrated by Nicholas Ray’s influential rogue cop picture, On Dangerous Ground (1952). Part 3 surveys the history of the heist movie from Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra (1941) to White Heat (1949), detailing how the prototypical heist picture, John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, not only draws on Walsh’s films as well as Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946) and Criss Cross (1949) but also provides the template for later “caper” movies like Odds against Tomorrow (1959).Less
The introduction proffers some cultural, political, and historical contexts for the emergence of the three subgenres of gangster noir discussed in the body of the book: the syndicate, rogue cop, and heist pictures. The first part examines the impact of the Kefauver Crime Commission on early ’50s syndicate films such as The Enforcer (1950). The second part introduces the rogue cop figure via a representative transitional film, John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951), and then turns to the ideological contradictions--“good cop/bad cop”--associated with the Dragnet phenomenon, a paradoxical configuration illustrated by Nicholas Ray’s influential rogue cop picture, On Dangerous Ground (1952). Part 3 surveys the history of the heist movie from Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra (1941) to White Heat (1949), detailing how the prototypical heist picture, John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, not only draws on Walsh’s films as well as Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946) and Criss Cross (1949) but also provides the template for later “caper” movies like Odds against Tomorrow (1959).
Robert Miklitsch
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043611
- eISBN:
- 9780252052491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043611.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
If John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951) remains a representative transitional instance of the rogue cop film, the subgenre cannot be reduced, thematically speaking, either to vigilante violence or ...
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If John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951) remains a representative transitional instance of the rogue cop film, the subgenre cannot be reduced, thematically speaking, either to vigilante violence or governmental corruption. For instance, in Otto Preminger’s prototypical rogue cop film, Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Mark Dixon’s encounter with criminal suspects is marked by physical violence and grim self-righteousness, although, not unlike Jim McLeod in an acknowledged model of the subgenre, Detective Story (1951), his crusading behavior derives less from some misguided notion of idealism than from the fact that his own father was a mobster. Moreover, even as Where the Sidewalk Ends radically reframes the antagonistic relation between the fugitive and cop, it situates the ultimately sympathetic figure of the policeman within the proletarian milieu of the metropolis and, in the process, reconfigures the limits of the rogue cop film.Less
If John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951) remains a representative transitional instance of the rogue cop film, the subgenre cannot be reduced, thematically speaking, either to vigilante violence or governmental corruption. For instance, in Otto Preminger’s prototypical rogue cop film, Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Mark Dixon’s encounter with criminal suspects is marked by physical violence and grim self-righteousness, although, not unlike Jim McLeod in an acknowledged model of the subgenre, Detective Story (1951), his crusading behavior derives less from some misguided notion of idealism than from the fact that his own father was a mobster. Moreover, even as Where the Sidewalk Ends radically reframes the antagonistic relation between the fugitive and cop, it situates the ultimately sympathetic figure of the policeman within the proletarian milieu of the metropolis and, in the process, reconfigures the limits of the rogue cop film.
