... to the fore in the study of IR. Assemblage Body politic Contaminated state International Relations IR Lively vessel Microbiome Whitman Walt Actant Body Latour Bruno Metaphors State Translations Wendt Alexander Capitalism Metagenomics Parasites Anthropocene Nietzsche Friedrich body politic...

...Chapter 2 looks at bodies known as victims of atrocity (Emmett Till, the Syrian boy Hamza al-Khateeb) to understand the ways in which the corpse as object may be called upon to signify a marginalized “body politic” or population, at the expense of the social identity of the deceased. Khateeb Hamza...

... considerations of having “made an ass” in Windsor Forest amounts to an (a)historical pun. Given this detranslation of Falstaff’s line, the play’s incessant wordplay translates the fat knight into the butt of a communal joke and the butt/arse of the Windsor body politic. In this capacity, Falstaff becomes...

...For three centuries the rational and disembodied state has been animated by one of the most powerful metaphors in politics: the body-politic, a claustrophobic and bounded image of the collective, the state, the nation, of the sovereign alienated among sovereigns. Drawing sources from continental...

...The materiality of the body is introduced as a way to provide methodological insight into both the way the body works, and by analogy how society works. This includes an expansion and redefinition of the political lexicon of body politics, and an attempt to tie self-interest to supporting...

... it is about our inter- and intra-dependence on multiple species. Evolution Microbe Organism Whitman Walt Assemblage Metagenomics Body Body politic Human Microbiome Project HMP International Relations IR Lively vessel Microbiome State Ontology Committee on Metagenomics Actant Bodies politic...

... ideas of the “body” in the body politic. Biome depletion theory Body politic Contaminated state Human Microbiome Project HMP Lakoff George Microbe Nested sets of permeable bodies Old friends hypothesis Organism State Whitman Walt Coevolution Evolution Helminths Immunity Metaphors...

... of cities is better replaced with the metaphor of the human body or the body politic. The heart and brain are in the political machine downtown and the public-private partnership called the “growth machine” or regime. The rest of the body politic is made up of networks stretching throughout the metropolitan...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book’s main argument that, photography arrives in India not only as a technology of the colonial state but also as an instrument that extends and transforms sight for photographers and the body politic, British and Indian alike. Such perceptual transformations...

...Chapter 1 introduces photographic indexicality and uses it as the metric to understanding the relationship between the body of the dead leader (Lincoln, Lenin, Eva Peron) and the “body politic” for which it stands. body politic corpse s corpus embalming iconic corpses indexicality photography...

... by understanding the place of difference—not as threatening, but necessary. Body politic Contaminated state Entanglement International Relations IR Lively vessel Metaphors Nested sets of permeable bodies Physics Sagan Carl State Whitman Walt Assemblage DNA Posthuman Systems biology Autopoiesis...