Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The State/Market Duopoly—Definitions Forthcoming 1
5. 1. Gramsci: Subalternity and Common Sense 19
6. 2. Biopolitics and Duopolies: Toward Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended” 40
7. 3. The People, the Uncounted, and Discardable Life in Rancière 59
8. 4. Dictatorship, Human Rights, and Psychoanalysis in Derrida’s Argentina: One Discourse or Three? 79
9. 5. Levinas and Civil/Human Liberties after September 11:What’s God Got to Do with It? 100
10. 6. If It Goes without Saying: Notes toward the Investigation of the Ideological State Apparatus 123
11. 7. Laclau and Mouffe: The Closure of an Open Politics, or, Undecidability on the Left 144
12. 8. Negri and Marx on Language and Activism: Has Deconstruction Anything to Say Now to Marxism? 164
13. 9. The Culture Wars, Interdisciplinarity, Globalization: Meditations on Cultural and Postcolonial Studies 190
14. 10. “Empire”: Anti-aestheticism, Leftist Solutions, and the Commodification of the Multitude 214
15. 11. Biopolitics/Foucault II: Statements on the New Media 230
16. Conclusion: The Frail Empire and the Commodity’s Embrace 245
17. Notes 267
18. Index 277