The biopolitics of the war on terror : life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies / / Julian Reid

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961842303321
• Autore: Reid Julian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 9781847796561; 1847796567; 9781781701676; 1781701679; 9781847793379; 1847793371
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Collana: Reappraising the Political; Reappraising the political
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetti: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Social aspects - United States; Biopolitics
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique; 2 Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies; 3 Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium; 4 Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human; 5 Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror; 6 Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude; References; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are a fundamental cause of the conflict. The question of the future of humanity is posed by this war, but only in the sense that its resolution depends on our abilities to move beyond the limits of ; dominant understandings of the human and.

Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems / / edited by John Mallet-Paret, Jianhong Wu, Yingfei Yi, Huaiping Zhu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437877903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-69714-9; 1-4614-4523-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (494 p.)
• Collana: Fields Institute Communications, , 2194-1564 ; ; 64
• Altri autori (Persone): Mallet-ParetJohn; WuJianhong; YiYingfie; ZhuHuaiping
• Disciplina: 515.35
• Soggetti: Dynamical systems; Differential equations; Dynamical Systems; Differential Equations
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Persistence of Periodic Orbits for Perturbed Dissipative Dynamical Systems (J. Hale, G. Raugel) -- Spectral Theory for Forward Nonautonomus Parabolic Equations and Applications (J. Mierczynski, W. Shen) -- A Dynamical Systems Approach to Traveling Wave Solutions for Liquid/Vapor Phase Transition (H. Fan, X. Lin) -- Instability of Radially-Symmetric Spikes in Systems with Conserved Quantity (A. Pogan, A. Scheel) -- Global Hopf Bifurcation Analysis of a Neuron Network Model with Time Delays (M. Li, J. Wei) -- Instability of Low Density Supersonic Waves of a Viscous Isentropic Gas Flow Through a Nozel (W. Liu, M. Oh) -- A Simple Proof of the Stability of Solitary Waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Model Near the KdV Limit (A. Hoffman, G. Wayne) -- Littlewood Problem for a Singular Subquadratic Potential (X. Li, Y. Yi) -- Semiflows for Neutral Equations with State-dependent ; Delay (H.-O. Walther) -- Threshold Dynamics of Scalar Linear Periodic Delay-Differential Equations (Y. Chen, J. Wu) -- Differential Equations with Random Delay (T.S. Doan, S. Siegmund) -- Beyond Diffusion: Conditional Dispersal in Ecological Models (C. Cosner) -- Global Attractor of a Coupled Two-Cell Brusselator Model (Y. You) -- Projectors on the Generalized Eigenspaces for Partial Differential Equations with Time Delay (A. Ducrot, P. Magal, S. Ruan) -- Global Convergence in Monotone and Uniformly Stable Recurrent Skew-Product Semiflows (Y. Wang, X. Zhao) -- The Infinite Hierarchy of Elastic Shell Models: Some Recent Results and a Conjecture (M. Lewicka, R. Pakzad) -- Traveling Wavefronts for Lattic Differential Equations with Time Delay and Global Interaction (S. Ma, Z. Zou) -- Bifurcation of Limit Cycles from a Non-Hamiltonian Quadratic Integrable System with Homoclinic Loop (Y. Zhao, H. Zhu) Anomalous Diffusion in Polymers: Long-Time Behaviour (D. Vorotnikov).
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection covers a wide range of topics of infinite dimensional dynamical systems generated by parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations, solitary equations, lattice differential equations, delay differential equations, and stochastic differential equations. Infinite dimensional dynamical systems are generated by equations describing the evolution in time of systems whose status must be depicted in infinite dimensional phase spaces. Studying the long-term behaviors of such systems is important in our understanding of their spatiotemporal pattern formation and global continuation, and has been among the major sources of motivation and applications of new developments in nonlinear analysis and other mathematical theories. The theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems has also increasingly important applications in the physical, chemical and life sciences. This book collects 19 papers from 48 invited lecturers to the International Conference on Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems held at York University, Toronto, in September of 2008. As the conference was dedicated to Professor George Sell from University of Minnesota on the occasion of his 70th birthday, this collection reflects his pioneering work and influence in core areas of dynamical systems, including non-autonomous dynamical systems, skew-product flows, invariant manifolds theory, infinite dimensional dynamical systems, approximation dynamics, and fluid flows.