What Is an Event?
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Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Why a Book about Events?
Advances and Limitations of Existing Scholarship
Form and Flow
1 • Political Semiosis
Inside or Outside
Deconstructing Political Semiosis
Summary
2 • Ground
L’Origine du Monde: Birth
Et in Arcadia Ego: Death
Background
Ground as Surface, Point of Contact, Scene of Action
Underground and Overground
3 • Rupture
Suspended Animation
Time and Space in Rupture
Event and Series: The Financial Crisis of 2008
“The Trigger Gave”
4 • Resonating Forms
Violence and Event Formation
The French Revolution
Jacques- Louis David: Eventful Moments and the Pause
5 • Fragmenting Forms
The Representational Uncertainty of the Paris Commune
Styles and Genres of the Paris Commune
Formal Fault Lines of Il Quarto Stato
6 • Sedimentation and Drift
9/11
Sedimentation and the Official Report
Insiders and Outsiders
Event Spaces
9/11 in Lower Manhattan
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Philosophy: Philosophy of Society
Sociology: Social History | Theory and Sociology of Knowledge
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