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JANE BENNETT gate effect of such acts is disastrous: in a world of finite resources, ‘‘freedom in a commons bring ruin to all.’’ ...

THE AGENCY OF ASSEMBLAGES attempts to hold individuals responsible for their actions or to hold officials accountable to the pub ...

JANE BENNETT casionally) exercised by humans finds a counterpart—not an equivalent—in the feedback loops operative in nonhuman ( ...

THE AGENCY OF ASSEMBLAGES an architectural structure, or an arrangement of public space, this vitality is nervously referred bac ...

JANE BENNETT come into existence through a parsimonious process, (i.e., in the fewest possible steps); and it must be of suffici ...

THE AGENCY OF ASSEMBLAGES ity delinked from the strict logic of purpose or intentionality. I myself remain agnostic about whethe ...

JANE BENNETT The elements of totalitarianism form its origins if by origins we do not understand ‘‘causes.’’ Causality, i.e., th ...

THE AGENCY OF ASSEMBLAGES human agency is, or what humans are doing when they are said to act. In the face of every analysis, hu ...

JANE BENNETT A coffee house or a schoolhouse is a mobile configuration of people, insects, odors, ink, electrical flows, air cur ...

THE AGENCY OF ASSEMBLAGES tonomy and strong responsibility seem to me to be empirically false, and thus their invo- cation seems ...

JANE BENNETT problems. It is ultimately a matter of political judgment what is more needed today: Should we acknowledge the dist ...

Automatic Theologies Surrealism and the Politics of Equality Kate Khatib To write about surrealism and theology seems an almost ...

KATE KHATIB equation of a particular moment in the history of artistic practice with a particular set of messianic categories. I ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES a world in which language was flexible enough to allow any and all concepts—theological and otherwise—to be ...

KATE KHATIB ment with aesthetics, like its involvement with theology, has been premised, more often than not, upon the spectacul ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES the supernatural. Basing their project in reality itself, surrealism’s founders put forth their collective ...

KATE KHATIB meant taking intoxication and madness, dreams and delusions, and the most ignoble of actions in stride, incorporatin ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES the truest understanding of Benjamin’sprofane illumination. The surrealists, by their own admission, were e ...

KATE KHATIB together, suggesting that a redemptive potential could be unleashed if one could manage to interact with the world o ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES significance in the hierophany are ‘‘transformed into something supernatural—or, to avoid using a theologic ...