NOTES TO PAGES 611–19- According to William Connolly, ‘‘emergent causality is causal... in that a movement at
[one]... level has effects at another level. But it is emergent in that, first, the character of the...
activity is not knowable in precise detail prior to effects that emerge at the second level. [Moreover,]
... the new effects becomeinfusedinto the very... organization of the second level in such a way
that the cause cannot be said to be fully different from the effect engendered... [Third,]...a
series of... feedback loops operate between first and second levels to generate the stabilized result.
The new emergent is shaped not only by external forces that become infused into it butalso by its
own previously under-tapped capacities for reception and self-organization.’’ Connolly also says that
an emergent cause is one in which the new effect is one about which we lack a clear concept before
it occurs. See William Connolly, ‘‘Method, Problem, Faith,’’ inProblems and Methods in the Study
of Politics, ed. Ian Shapiro, Rogers Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004), 342–43. - Hannah Arendt, ‘‘On the Nature of Totalitarianism: An Essay in Understanding,’’ 1953,
Hannah Arendt Papers of the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/P?mh
arendt:1:./temp/ammem_3YUE. My thanks to John Docker for this reference. See also his ‘‘Apre`s
la Guerre: Dark Thought, Some Whimsy,’’Arena Journal20 (2002–3): 3–16. - Other readings suggest that Arendt, especially given her notion of ‘‘action,’’ may be even
more amenable to a distributive notion of agency than I suggest. My thanks to Paul Saurette for
this point. - I am grateful to George Shulman and Bonnie Honig for pointing this issue out to me.
- Gilles Deleuze and Fe ́lix Guattari,A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapo-
lis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 313. - Franc ̧ois Jullien,The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China(New York:
Zone, 1995), 13. - Archer,Realist Social Theory, 66.
- Recall that reactive power happens when the waves of current and voltage in an electron
stream are ninety degrees out of sync. - Hayden, ‘‘Gilles Deleuze and Naturalism,’’ 187.
- Latour,Politics of Nature, 67.
Kate Khatib, Automatic Theologies: Surrealism and the Politics of Equality
- Karl Marx, ‘‘Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’sPhilosophy of Right’’ [1844],The Marx-
Engels Reader, ed. R. Tucker (New York: Norton, 1978), 53. - Don LaCoss, ‘‘9–11 and the Theology of Terror’’ [2001],Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writ-
ings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States, ed. R. Sakolsky (Brooklyn: Auto-
nomedia, 2002), 371. - Hent de Vries,Philosophy and the Turn to Religion(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity Press, 1999), 11. - Franklin Rosemont, ‘‘The Crisis of the Imagination,’’Arsenal 2: Surrealist Subversions(Chi-
cago: Black Swan Press, 1973), 14. - After the death of Elisa Breton, widow of Andre ́Breton, exorbitant inheritance taxes im-
posed by the French government forced their daughter, Aube Elle ́ouet, to sell her father’s personal
collection of art and artifacts, which had been housed for so long in the legendary flat at 42 Rue
Fontaine. The announcement of the sale and the following appeals to the French government by
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