Now and Rome
Subtitle: Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space
By: Ika Willis
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781441120519
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.