... savagery to civility happens. Davenant and Cavendish both imagine solutions to this problem, envisioning savages and commoners who are dazzled and civilized by theatrical and “magical” technological productions. Cavendish’s writings also imagine a homology between women and sovereigns as beings external...

... represent violence as inevitable in establishing ostensibly free and civilized individuals and spaces in Britain and overseas. Defoe’s colonial fictions narrate the progress of gunpowder from lawmaking prop to lawless weapon: beginning as a figure for sovereign performance, it develops in his fiction...

... and torture that highlight reason’s continued dependence on sovereign violence. Africa Atkins John Foucault Michel Haywood Eliza monarchy periodicals privacy sovereignty Steele Richard surveillance Backscheider Paula R civility Ingrassia Catherine oriental tales savagery women command objects...

...Chapter 1 elaborates the concept of crip/tography, mapping the lines of force, psychosocial and economic, that reproduce the aestheticization of fear in the global city within the regime of late capitalism and under the rubric of enforcing “civility.” Proposing to renegotiate the values of urban...

... Jacques Sangiovanni Andrea citizenship civility constituent power dignity insurrection intensive universality radical democracy rights structural violence transformation Étienne Balibar’s political philosophy innovates a complex constellation of concepts aimed at reviving and renewing the great...

... and exploration in this period attempt to imagine the forms that civilizing narratives might take. It examines the role in these fictions of the “first gunshot topos,” a recurring moment of technologically-simulated magic. It then discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political theory and the narratives...