Showing all 2 books
The essays collected in this volume deal with one central theme: How do we now make sense of existence in a world that is constantly threatened by destruction of sense. The contributors, exploring answers to this complex problematique from different disciplinary perspectives maintain that the question concerning the sense of existence and its destruction is essentially tied up with the question of violence: violence as radical destruction of sense for and of ...
The volume probes the relationship between sovereignty, power and truth. Offering a new set of formalisations to explore the relationship between the three facets, it invents the three fictions, namely theatre, number and event. It argues that ‘theatre’ can be seen as the physical assembly wherein sovereign exercise of power and the performative transformation of a multitude into a congregational subject of sovereignty are articulated together. By ...