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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786906303321

Autore

Willis Ika <1975->

Titolo

Now and Rome : Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space / Ika Willis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2011

ISBN

1-4725-4081-6

1-4411-9626-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Continuum Studies in Classical Reception

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Political science - Classical influences

Political science - Philosophy

Politics in literature

Sovereignty in literature

Space in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-180) and index

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements \ 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 Index

Sommario/riassunto

Now 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.