Stasis Before the State

Stasis Before the State

Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0823277410

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This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty. In contrast to this “ruse of sovereignty,” Vardoulakis proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism. The term stasis, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty.


STASIS

STASIS

Author: Giorgio Agamben

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1474401546

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Giorgio Agamben investigates two founding moments in the formation of European power in its struggle with its most dangerous enemy: internecine civil strife.


Paradoxes of Stasis

Paradoxes of Stasis

Author: Tatjana Gajic

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1496208420

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Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime’s supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajić analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajić argues that the combination of Francoism’s long duration and the uncertainty surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regime’s politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres—legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir—Gajić examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the Francoist era in the context of the regime’s attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers’ critiques of Francoism’s endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.


Sovereignty and Its Other

Sovereignty and Its Other

Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0823251357

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In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is possible to deconstruct the various justifications of violence. Such de-justifications can only take place by presupposing an other to sovereignty, which Vardoulakis identifies with radical democracy. In doing so, Sovereignty and Its Other puts forward both a novel critique of sovereignty and an original philosophical theory of democratic practice.


Aristotle on Political Enmity and Disease

Aristotle on Political Enmity and Disease

Author: Kostas Kalimtzis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2000-11-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0791492052

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This book explores Aristotle's theory of stasis, a word usually translated to mean "revolution," "civic disorder," or "sedition." It examines Aristotle's writings on stasis, especially Book 5 of the Politics, within the tradition established by ancient Greek poets, medical writers, philosophers, and orators, who held that the root sense of stasis was in fact nosos, or "disease." Aristotle's theory of the causes of stasis is presented in a cohesive manner, as factors that can account for political disease within the entire range of diverse constitutions. Aristotle is shown to have proceeded from the standpoint that the polis had to be cast in a mode of political friendship, what the Greeks called homonoia or "political friendship", and that when other standards for friendship such as wealth or liberty are practiced to an extreme, then the function of the polis may be "arrested." The telic functions of the polis are replaced by disordered "movements" whose paralyzing effect—as evidenced by transformations in values and language, and the pursuit of private-interest ends—is typical of a dysfunctional condition that often ends in senseless violence and civil war.


Motion(less) Pictures

Motion(less) Pictures

Author: Justin Remes

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0231538901

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Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for Face (1965), Michael Snow's So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), he shows how motionless films defiantly showcase the static while collapsing the boundaries between cinema, photography, painting, and literature. Analyzing four categories of static film--furniture films, designed to be viewed partially or distractedly; protracted films, which use extremely slow motion to impress stasis; textual films, which foreground the static display of letters and written words; and monochrome films, which display a field of monochrome color as their image--Remes maps the interrelations between movement, stillness, and duration and their complication of cinema's conventional function and effects. Arguing all films unfold in time, he suggests duration is more fundamental to cinema than motion, initiating fresh inquiries into film's manipulation of temporality, from rigidly structured works to those with more ambiguous and open-ended frameworks. Remes's discussion integrates the writings of Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Tom Gunning, Rudolf Arnheim, Raymond Bellour, and Noel Carroll and will appeal to students of film theory, experimental cinema, intermedia studies, and aesthetics.


Stasis

Stasis

Author: Giorgio Agamben

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474401531

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Giorgio Agamben investigates two founding moments in the formation of European power in its struggle with its most dangerous enemy: internecine civil strife.


A Pause in Space-Time (a Stasis Story #1)

A Pause in Space-Time (a Stasis Story #1)

Author: Laurence Dahners

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781674874814

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This novella length hard Sci-Fi book begins the "Stasis Stories," a series of tales from the near future. They tell us about Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man who uses his extraordinary math talents to work out a way to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. He and Arya Vaii, a business student, set out to develop the phenomenon.It quickly becomes obvious that, beyond the fact that time stops inside the stasis field, the volume of space-time in stasis might be useful for some of its other phenomenal properties. Since it essentially can't be altered (time's stopped inside) it's stronger than any known substance and, unlike matter, does not melt. This makes it the perfect material for building rocket engines. They set out to sell such engines in order to provide their budding business enough profit to let them develop other useful products.Unfortunately, the owner of the lab that tested the properties of their samples also recognizes their potential. His desire to share in their profits unhinges his shaky grasp on reality. When he can't talk them into letting him join their enterprise, he demands a share at gunpoint.


Concerning Stasis - A Major Factor in the Causation of Disease

Concerning Stasis - A Major Factor in the Causation of Disease

Author: Rui Alexandre Gabirro, Emunctologist

Publisher: Hospitallers Order of the Good News

Published: 2022-11-03

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13:

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Concerning Stasis in the Causation of Disease, And Drainage as a Factor in Resolving Disease CONTENTS Introduction 1 The Lymphatic Constitution and its Relation to Some Forms of Sudden Death...................................................................................3 Chapter 1 In All Parts of the Body Free Drainage Is Essential for the Cure of Infection.......................................................................................4 Urinary Stasis..............................................................................7 Degradation And Clearance........................................................9 Stasis Allows the Absorption of Toxins which Enfeeble the Whole of the Connective Tissue Elements....................................10 Intestinal Stasis and Other Foci of Infection.............................10 Chapter 2 Some Fundamental Causes of Disease......................................12 Endocrine to Organ: Drainage, Detoxification and Disease.....19 Lymphatic Drainage and Neurological Disease........................24 Trauma and Lymphatics............................................................28 Chapter 3 Blood Stasis...............................................................................31 Blood Stasis a Factor in the Causation of Disease....................31 Mechanisms of Compensation of the Blood Circulatory Disturbances in Venous Stasis.......................................................32 Blood Stasis and Atherosclerotic Factors on Cognitive Impairment.....................................................................................33 Chapter 4 Chronic Intestinal Stasis............................................................35 Tonic Colon Hardening.............................................................35 Intestinal Adhesions A Factor in Chronic Intestinal Stasis in Epilepsies.......................................................................................40 The Relationship of Chronic Intestinal Stasis to Epilepsy........42 The Relationship of the Intestinal Flora to Chronic Intestinal Stasis..............................................................................................43 Intestinal Stasis a Factor in the Causation of Cancer................50 The Relation of Chronic Intestinal Stasis to Cancer.................54 Chapter 5 Lymph Stasis.......…..................................................................60 Lymph Stasis Promotes Tumour Growth..................................61 Lymph Stasis in the Causation of Disease................................62 The Relation of Obstructed Cardiac Circulation to Lymph Stasis..............................................................................................66 Lymph Stasis the Precursor of Cancer.......................................68 Cancer is a Product of Lymph Stasis.........................................70 Chapter 6 Breast Cancer.............................................................................72 Lymph-stasis the Precursor of Cancer.......................................73 Lymphoid Tissue In Health.......................................................74 Lymphangioplasty.....................................................................75 Lymph-Stasis The Precursor of Breast Cancer..........................78 Lymphatic Obstruction as the Cause of Chronic Mastitis.........79 Chronic Mastitis........................................................................79 Prevention in the Light of Aetiology.........................................80 The Real Story Behind the Pink Ribbon...................................81 Note on Antiperspirants.............................................................86 Breast Cancer Screening Farce.................................................86 Intestinal Toxaemia in its Relation to Cancer............................88 Constipation and Breast Cancer................................................89 National Health and Examination Survey.................................91 Chapter 7 Stasis..........................................................................................95 Copro-stasis...............................................................................95 Apostasis...................................................................................95 Stasis in the Causation of Disease.............................................97 Venous Stasis in Optic Neuritis.................................................97 Stasis of Bile..............................................................................98 Bile Pigment..............................................................................99 Stasis of Bile: Favours Bacterial Colonization.......................107 Chapter 8 Promoting Cellular Drainage..................................................109 Improper Drainage..................................................................109 The Concept of Drainage........................................................115 Setting up Drainages...............................................................116 Manual Therapy Techniques to Improve Drainages...............117 Drainage of the Head and Neck..............................................118 Draining Cervical Lymphatics................................................119 Lymphatic and Venous Drainage.............................................121 Thoracic Lymph Drainage.......................................................122 To Stimulate Lymph Flow.......................................................122 To Increase the Volume of Lymph..........................................123 Treatment for Drainage and Circulation of the Thorax...........123 List of Toxins and Waste Products Lymph Drained by the Lymph..........................................................................................124 Lymph-Stasis Arising as a Primary Condition in Various Organs, or Partly So.....................................................................124 The Concept of Drainages.......................................................126 Perfect Drainage......................................................................130 Chapter 9 Lymph Drainage Therapeutic Method....................................132 Osteopathic Treatment of the Lymphatic System in Disease..137 Stability of the Internal Environment......................................139 Drainage in Glaucoma.............................................................140 Index 143