The cartographic state : maps, territory and the origins of sovereignty / / Jordan Branch [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453224603321
• Autore: Branch Jordan <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-107-50272-1; 1-139-89476-5; 1-107-49972-0; 1-107-50656-5; 1-107-49719-1; 1-107-50384-1; 1-107-51695-1; 1-139-64437-8; 1-107-51416-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in international relations ; ; 127
• Disciplina: 320.1/5
• Soggetti: Cartography - History; Sovereignty; International relations; Territory, National; Boundaries; World politics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Authority, sovereignty, and international change -- The cartographic revolution -- Mapping the territorial state -- New World mapping and colonial reflection -- Peace treaties and political transformation -- Mapping the territorialization of France -- The cartographic state today.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries? The answer to this question is central to our understanding of international politics, but the question is at the same time much more complex - and more revealing - than we might first ; think. This book examines the important but overlooked role played by cartography itself in the development of modern states. Drawing upon evidence from the history of cartography, peace treaties and political practices, the book reveals that early modern mapping dramatically altered key ideas and practices among both rulers and subjects, leading to the implementation of linear boundaries between states and centralized territorial rule within them. In his analysis of early modern innovations in the creation, distribution and use of maps, Branch explains how the relationship between mapping and the development of modern territories shapes our understanding of international politics today.

On the Nature of Marx's Things : Translation as Necrophilology / / Jacques Lezra

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796719303321
• Autore: Lezra Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8232-8152-3; 0-8232-7944-8; 0-8232-7945-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Lit Z
• Altri autori (Persone): MorfinoVittorio
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: Encounter and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. On the Nature of Marx’s Things -- 2. Capital, Catastrophe: Marx’s “Dynamic Objects” -- 3. Necrophilology -- 4. The Primal Scenes of Political Theology -- 5. Adorno and the Humanist Dialectic -- 6. Uncountable Matters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: On the Nature of Marx’s Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian ; tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx’s earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marx’s inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading.“Lezra,” writes Vittorio Morfino in his preface, “transfers all of the power of the Althusserian encounter into his conception of translation.” Lezra’s expansive understanding of translation covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Obscured by later critical attention to the contradictory lexicons—of fetishism and of chrematistics—that Capital uses to describe how value accrues to commodities, and by the dialectical approach that’s framed Marx’s work since Engels sought to marry it to the natural philosophy of his time, necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx’s thought and in his wake. It entails a radical revision of what counts as translation, and wholly new ways of imagining what an object is, of what counts as matter, value, sovereignty, mediation, and even number. In On the Nature of Marx’s Things a materialism “of the encounter,” as recent criticism in the vein of the late Althusser calls it, encounters Marxological value-form theory, post-Schmittian divisible sovereignty, object-oriented-ontologies and the critique of correlationism, and philosophies of translation and untranslatability in debt to Quine, Cassin, and Derrida. The inheritors of the problems with which Marx grapples range from Spinoza’s marranismo, through Melville’s Bartleby, through the development of a previously unexplored Freudian political theology shaped by the revolutionary traditions of Schiller and Verdi, through Adorno’s exilic antihumanism against Said’s cosmopolitan humanism, through today’s new materialisms.Ultimately, necrophilology draws the story of capital’s capture of difference away from the story of capital’s production of subjectivity. It affords concepts and procedures for dismantling the system of objects on which neoliberal capitalism stands: concrete, this-wordly things like commodities, but also such “objects” as debt traps, austerity programs, the marketization of risk; ideologies; the pedagogical, professional, legal, even familial institutions that produce and reproduce inequities today.

Alessandro Torlonia : The Pope's Banker / / by Daniela Felisini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163029403321
• Autore: Felisini Daniela
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• ISBN: 9783319419985; 3319419986
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, , 2662-5172
• Disciplina: 332.10945
• Soggetti: Finance; History; Financial services industry; Italy - History; Financial History; Financial Services; History of Italy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The origins and rise of the Torlonia family and bank -- Chapter 2: Alessandro Torlonia: a passion of business -- Chapter 3: The Pope's banker -- Chapter 4: A banker of European stature -- Chapter 5: Prince and entrepreneur -- Chapter 6: Torlonia, witness to a century.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker, pioneer and entrepreneur. It weaves the entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century, the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento. The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents; the archives of the Torlonia family, and of the Rothschild bank in Paris; memoirs; correspondences, and newspapers. Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces, who was one of the most complex and influential ; characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy: an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchers. .