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Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space

Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space

Ika Willis
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Now and Romeis 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 Willisargues 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 with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory. "
Pages
208
Format
ebook
Release
January 01, 2010
ISBN 13
9781441196262

Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space

Ika Willis
0/5 ( ratings)
Now and Romeis 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 Willisargues 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 with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory. "
Pages
208
Format
ebook
Release
January 01, 2010
ISBN 13
9781441196262

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