Introduction to Civil War
Title | Introduction to Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Tiqqun |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-04-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1584350865 |
Activists explore the possibility that a new practice of communism may emerge from the end of society as we know it. Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of listless implosion.—from Introduction to Civil War Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used to take for granted have all been vaporized. Politics was one of these things, a Greek invention that condenses around an equation: to hold a position means to take sides, and to take sides means to unleash civil war. Civil war, position, sides—these were all one word in the Greek: stasis. If the history of the modern state in all its forms—absolute, liberal, welfare—has been the continuous attempt to ward off this stasis, the great novelty of contemporary imperial power is its embrace of civil war as a technique of governance and disorder as a means of maintaining control. Where the modern state was founded on the institution of the law and its constellation of divisions, exclusions, and repressions, imperial power has replaced them with a network of norms and apparatuses that conspire in the production of the biopolitical citizens of Empire. In their first book available in English, Tiqqun explores the possibility of a new practice of communism, finding a foundation for an ontology of the common in the politics of friendship and the free play of forms-of-life. They see the ruins of society as the ideal setting for the construction of the community to come. In other words: the situation is excellent. Now is not the time to lose courage.
The U. S. Civil War: a Very Short Introduction
Title | The U. S. Civil War: a Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Louis P. Masur |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2020-10-21 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 0197513662 |
"First published in hardback as The Civil War: a concise history"--Title page verso.
An Introduction to Civil War Civilians
Title | An Introduction to Civil War Civilians PDF eBook |
Author | Juanita Leisch |
Publisher | Thomas Publications (PA) |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780939631704 |
Provides basic information on indiviuduals, their families and the society and communities in which Americans lived -North and South- at the time of the Civil War.
An Introduction to Civil War Small Arms
Title | An Introduction to Civil War Small Arms PDF eBook |
Author | Earl J. Coates |
Publisher | Thomas Publications (PA) |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Title | The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Graham |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2005-03-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192803778 |
"Helen Graham highlights the domestic and international context of the Spanish Civil War, and reveals its origins in the political and cultural anxieties provoked by the rapid modernization of Europe. Using personal narratives, she combines a powerfully human account of the war an its aftermath with a disturbing ethical enquiry into its legacy for the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
Introduction to Civil War Photography
Title | Introduction to Civil War Photography PDF eBook |
Author | Ross J. Kelbaugh |
Publisher | Thomas Publications (PA) |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An Introduction to Civil Wars
Title | An Introduction to Civil Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Karl R. DeRouen |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2014-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1452244324 |
Providing a complete overview of the global post-World War II civil wars, this book covers: civil war patterns, types and causes; the effect of natural resources; conflict duration, outcomes and termination; peace agreements; counter-insurgency; terrorism; international intervention; and post-conflict issues.