Now and Rome

Ika Willis

ISBN 10: 1441170022 / ISBN 13: 9781441170026

Published by Continuum Publishing Corporation, US, 2012

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" Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory. ".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Now and Rome
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, US
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441170022
• ISBN 13: 9781441170026
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 308 grams

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Synopsis

Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'.

This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory.

About the Author

Ika Willis is Lecturer in Reception at the University of Bristol, UK.