03607nam 22007091c 450 991015520950332120200115203623.01-4725-4081-61-4411-9626-910.5040/9781472540812(CKB)3710000000109865(EBL)1750832(SSID)ssj0001305665(PQKBManifestationID)12542287(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305665(PQKBWorkID)11257012(PQKB)10698849(MiAaPQ)EBC1750832(Au-PeEL)EBL1750832(CaPaEBR)ebr10867520(CaONFJC)MIL615825(OCoLC)893331432(OCoLC)1057401765(UtOrBLW)bpp09255446(EXLCZ)99371000000010986520140929d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNow and Rome Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space Ika WillisLondon New York Continuum 2011.1 online resource (197 p.)Continuum Studies in Classical ReceptionDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-2051-3 1-4411-7002-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-180) and indexAcknowledgements \ 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 IndexNow 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.Continuum Studies in Classical ReceptionPolitical scienceClassical influencesAncient history: to c 500 CEPolitical sciencePhilosophyPolitics in literatureSovereignty in literatureSpace in literaturePolitical scienceClassical influences.Political sciencePhilosophy.Politics in literature.Sovereignty in literature.Space in literature.871/.01Willis Ika1975-617472UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910155209503321Now and Rome1085722UNINA