While the central ideal of Roman philosophy exemplified by Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca
appears to be the masculine values of self-sufficiency and domination, this book argues …

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social
life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging …

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that
constitute the urban? This book explores the relation between space, law and control in the …

This book addresses the problem of 'animal life'in terms that go beyond the usual extension
of liberal rights to animals. The discourse of animal rights is one that increasingly occupies …

The curious elective kinship between the South African Nobel laureate John Maxwell
Coetzee and the Central European classic author Franz Kafka is well known. This book …

After the First World War, East Central Europe underwent an extensive geopolitical
reconfiguration, resulting in highly turbulent environments in which political sacrificial …

This essay employs the concept of population to articulate the logic of a dominant style of
contemporary thought, practice, and affect. This style, which underwrites cultural productions …

This article rethinks the concept of the political from a posthumanist rather than a humanist
vantage point. More specifically, it engages in an extended discussion of Wendy Brown's …

Aren't the slaughterhouse and the meatpacking plant the poster children of what philosopher
Giorgio Agamben calls a “zone of irreducible indistinction,” where inclusion and exclusion …

But in another sense, the Big Bend area is not isolated at all because it sits on the
US/Mexico border in an era of considerable national debate about immigration across the …