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Abstract. Regional hurricane risk is often assessed assuming a static housing inventory, yet a region's housing inventory changes continually. Failing to include changes in the built environment in hurricane risk modeling can substantially underestimate expected losses. This study uses publicly available data and a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model to forecast the annual number of housing units for each of 1000 individual counties in the southeastern United States over the next 20 years. When evaluated using testing data, the estimated number of housing units was almost always (97.3 % of the time), no more than 1 percentage point different than the observed number, predictive errors that are acceptable for most practical purposes. Comparisons suggest the LSTM outperforms the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and simpler linear trend models. The housing unit projections can help facilitate a quantification of changes in future expected losses and other impacts caused by hurricanes. For example, this study finds that if a hurricane with characteristics similar to Hurricane Harvey were to impact southeastern Texas in 20 years, the residential property and flood losses would be nearly USD 4 billion (38 %) greater due to the expected increase of 1.3 million new housing units (41 %) in the region.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 'Subjectivity Without the Subject': Thinking Beyond the Subject with / through Spinoza -- 2. Spinoza's Non-Humanist Humanism -- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology -- 4. Spinoza's Architectural Passages and Geometric Comportments -- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism -- Interlude LANCE BREWER, 'SHADOWS' -- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today -- 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology -- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism -- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature -- 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This book is the first to apply the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis. As such it is likely to become a key text in the development of this area, providing a stimulating introduction to the subject. Authors explore the two-way relationship, showing not only that post-structuralism can enhance the study of politics, but also that advocates of post-structuralism can benefit from being open to the lessons political studies can teach. The book aims to (i) clarify the relationship of contemporary theory to politics; (ii) open up a new intellectual interface; (iii) create a space for exchange between disciplines; (iv) provide a statement of the role of post-structuralist theory in politicsCovering three main sections - What is Post-structuralist Political Theory?; Post-structuralism and Political Analysis; and The Question of the Political - the authors draw on themes raised by Continental thinkers such as Derrida, Nancy and Deleuze, and Anglo-American thinkers such as Butler and Connolly in their questioning of the theoretical and empirical understanding of contemporary politics.Key Features First systematic examination of post-structuralism to see what it may mean for political studies Advances its own rigorous and theoretically informed position Cutting edge: provides a vibrant introduction to this area of political thought and analysis Brings clarity to the two-way relationship between post-structuralism and politics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Giorgio Agamben (1942-) -- 2 Alain Badiou (1937-) -- 3 Zygmunt Bauman (1925-) -- 4 Homi K. Bhabha (1949-) -- 5 Judith Butler (1956-) -- 6 Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-97) -- 7 Green Critical Theorists -- 8 Donna J. Haraway (1944-) -- 9 Ernesto Laclau (1935-) and Chantal Mouffe (1943-) -- 10 Bruno Latour (1947-) -- 11 Antonio Negri (1933-) -- 12 Jacques Rancière (1940-) -- 13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-) -- 14 Paul Virilio (1932-) -- 15 Slavoj Žižek (1949-) -- Names index -- Subject index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence -- Introduction -- 1. Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy -- 2. From Marxism to Poststructuralism -- 3. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism -- Part II: Methods -- Introduction -- 4. A History of the Method: Examining Foucault's Research Methodology -- 5. Derrida, Deconstruction and Method -- 6. Écriture Féminine -- 7. Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project -- Part III: Themes -- Structure and Subject -- Introduction -- 8. Structure and Subject -- 9. How do we Recognise the Subject? -- 10. Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices -- Language and Text -- Introduction -- 11. Derrida's Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text -- 12. Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language -- 13. Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce) -- Form and Institution -- Introduction -- 14. Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System -- 15. Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory -- 16. The Museum of Now -- 17. Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Resistance and Limit -- Introduction -- 18. 'Here and Nowhere': Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia -- 19. The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous -- 20. Politics in-between Nihilism and History -- Part IV: Trajectories -- Introduction -- 21. The Receptions of Poststructuralism -- 22. From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn -- 23. The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler -- Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today? -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index