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OverviewNow and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Ika WillisPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Edition: NIPPOD Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.308kg ISBN: 9781441170026ISBN 10: 1441170022 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 27 September 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgements \ Introduction: Empire After Earth \ 1. Aratrum (Plough) - Hannah Arendt and the Agricultural Archive \ Interlude I: Fast Car \ 2. Fulmen (Lightning): Paul Virilio's Politics at the Speed of Light 86 \ Interlude II: Romulus and Remus \ 3. Hostis (Enemy): Carl Schmitt and the War of the Words \ Interlude III: Templum \ 4. Fas (Speakability): Jacques Derrida's Writing of Space \ Interlude IV: Terminology \ 5. Now: The Angel, the Boat, and the Storm in Walter Benjamin \ Bibliography \ Index of Passages Discussed \ General IndexReviews"'Ika Willis' brilliant analysis of the politics of territoriality in Rome and the contemporary world represents the best work in theoretically informed approaches to classics and classically informed approaches to theory. It is a masterful demonstration of how, in Derrida's words, the ""very ancient"" recurs in the ""very modern"", and an eloquent testimony to the untimely modernity of antiquity.' Miriam Leonard, Lecturer in Greek Literature and its Reception, University College London, UK -- Dr Miriam Leonard ""This is an extremely important book. Not only is its scholarship impeccable it forms part of a systematic rethinking of the Classical heritage. Rather than looking to the past for either edification or consolation Ika Willis reworks the tradition by looking at the 'Romaness of now'. In so doing she makes 'Rome' part of the present. Drawing on leading figures within the European philosophical tradition she has written a work on Lucan and Vergil that allows for De Bello Ciuili, the Georgics and the Aeneid, to be read as contributing to a rethinking of the exigencies of the political today."" -- Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia Ika Willis has produced a challenging book on the relationship between political order and terrestrial space as witnessed in three (epic) poems, Vergil's Georgics and Aeneid and Lucan's De bello ciuli... [Willis] presents here a daring, and often difficult, interpretation of well-known poems, frequently with insightful ideas... A book worth reading, especially by those interested in the very often much-criticized relationship between Classics and theory. -- Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois, USA * Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies *" 'Ika Willis' brilliant analysis of the politics of territoriality in Rome and the contemporary world represents the best work in theoretically informed approaches to classics and classically informed approaches to theory. It is a masterful demonstration of how, in Derrida's words, the very ancient recurs in the very modern , and an eloquent testimony to the untimely modernity of antiquity.' Miriam Leonard, Lecturer in Greek Literature and its Reception, University College London, UK (Dr Miriam Leonard) This is an extremely important book. Not only is its scholarship impeccable it forms part of a systematic rethinking of the Classical heritage. Rather than looking to the past for either edification or consolation Ika Willis reworks the tradition by looking at the 'Romaness of now'. In so doing she makes 'Rome' part of the present. Drawing on leading figures within the European philosophical tradition she has written a work on Lucan and Vergil that allows for De Bello Ciuili, the Georgics and the Aeneid, to be read as contributing to a rethinking of the exigencies of the political today. (Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia) Author InformationIka Willis is Lecturer in Reception at the University of Bristol, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |