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This article commemorates Jean Baudrillard's career with an account of the consistency of his interventionist logic, the subtlety of his styles of argument and the prescience of his observations. It provides an account of Baudrillard's sustained engagement with the intensification of simulation that has increasingly codified trends in communications, technology politics, the social, the psychological and economics in the name of functionality. The consistency of Baudrillard's arguments belies the many superficial judgements made about them, which were anyway often knowingly encouraged by Baudrillard's rhetorical strategies.

Violence is spoken of in several senses but its most basic definition, as a force exerted by one thing on another, harbors serious problems, especially when it comes to a consideration of its source or cause. We begin this article by identifying some of the aporias of violence with reference to philosophical and religious discourses and then we go on to analyze how violence problematizes concepts of law and justice in world historical contexts. We examine several traditions including Indo-European mythology, as well as Hindu, Taoist, and ancient Greek philosophy, before addressing the concept of violence in modern thought, as a revision of Christianity. We conclude with some discussion of epistemological violence and its critics.

In this article we outline the ways in which questions of language have both revealed problems with conceptions of knowledge and suggested constructive ways of addressing those problems. Having examined the limitations of instrumental notions of language, we outline some alternatives, especially those developed from the middle of the 19th and throughout the 20th century. We locate forceful and influential philosophical interventions in the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger and foundational revisions in the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and his structuralist inheritors. We also chart the parallel path of literary theory from Mallarmé through Blanchot and poststructuralism to deconstruction. We conclude, after making some observations about the politicization of language in the works of feminist and postcolonial theorists, with some remarks about how the question of language helps to problematize global knowledge.

The article examines the distinction between the state of emergency and the normal state and an inherent undecidability at the base of the distinction. We argue that states of emergency arise from strategic sovereign decisions to divide visible from invisible, enemy from ally, underground economy from above-ground, illegitimate war from legitimate war. The capacity to so divide is manifested, for instance, in the technology of air raid sirens in a way that indicates the momentum of the technicity that covertly underlies sovereign power. The article, furthermore, shows how the distinction between the visible and the invisible can serve as a mystification, perpetuating the state of emergency by disguising the intrinsic connection between the two domains.

The five papers in this e-book are intended to provide a basis for the re-conceptualisation and re-contextualisation of the military and militarization in relation to international business. The contents critically explore, address and challenge petrified conceptual and contextual notions as well as organizational cultural and political sociologies while gesturing toward the multifarious internal ways in which military ideas, experiences, technologies and organizations infuse and affect cultural theory and practice. The e-book contains a range of paper types, and covers a wide national and c

A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to inves

1. Cities as targets / Ryan Bishop, Greg Clancey and John Phillips -- 2. "But with malice aforethought" : cities and the natural history of hatred / Nigel Thrift -- 3. Targeting the imaginist city / John Armitage -- 4. Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman -- 5. Theme park archipelago : convergences of war, simulation and entertainment in urban targeting / Stephen Graham -- 6. Rescripting visions : towards a 'subaltern' architecture / Pal Ahluwalia -- 7. The city as target : retargeting the city : French intellectuals and city spaces / Verena Andermatt Conley -- 8. Tokyo : water, earthquake, and island universe / Suzuki Hiroyuki -- 9. Vast clearings : emergency, technology, and American de-urbanization, 1930-45 / Gregory Clancey -- 10. Concealment and exposure : imagining London after the Great Fire / Li Shiqiao -- 11. Moscow : fortress city / Irina Aristarkhova -- 12. Unbombing the world, 1911-2011 : 100 years of aerial bombing of the human habitat : a proposal for an installation on the history and future of planned destruction and reconstruction / Tjebbe van Tijen -- 13. London : the imperial target / Rajeev S. Patke -- 14. Keizu to Nendaiki : making and erasing history in Tsukuba Science City at the edge of empire / Sharon Traweek -- 15. The city and the economy of "losing" : targeting competitive bodies in an era of global competition / Robbie B.H. Goh -- 16. Between targeting and display : absorptive affiliations / Jordan Crandall -- 17. "The target is the people" : representations of the village in modernization and national security doctrine / Nick Cullather.