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Imagining the state Mark Neocleous UNIVERSITY CF NEVADA LAS VEGAS LIBRARY Open University Press Maidenhead - Philadelphia ‘Open University Press ‘McGravi- Hil Education McGran-Hil House ‘Shoppenhangers Road ‘Maidenhead Berkshire England su6 20L ‘emaik enquires@openup.co.uk ‘world wide web: wwva-openup.co.uk and 325 Chestrut street Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA Fist published 2003, Copyright © Mark Neocleous 2003 ‘rights reserved. Except fr the quotation of short passagesfor the purposes of ‘lcm and review, no part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored ina ‘evieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means electronic, ‘mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without he prior permission ‘ofthe publisher or aicence trom the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details ‘of such licences (for teprogrephic reproduction) may be obtined from the ‘Copyright Licensing Agency Lid of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, WIT ALP ‘Acatalogue record of this books avallabe rom the Brish Lbrary IsBN 0.335 20351 5 (pb) 0.335 20352 3 (hb) LUbray of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘CP data applied for “Typeset by RefineCatch Uited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Limited, wiv bdals.o.uk Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1 The body ofthe state ‘Absolute bodies Social bodies Dinty bodies 2 The mind of the state Raison d'tat: a rationality of expedience Character ongelicus: the intelligent state ‘Arcana imperit: secrecy, privacy, idiocy 3. The personality of the state Hobbes’ person The personification of capital The revenge of sovereignty 4. Thehomeof the state ‘The terror of territory ‘The scum ofthe earth, or, once more on the dirty social body ‘The violence of cartography coda Notes Index 10 a 28 39 40 46 a n 3 7 87 98 102 108 n8 12s 130 wm Acknowledgments Parts ofthe argument in what follows have been tried out in the following atticls: ‘The fate ofthe body politi, Radial Philosophy, 108, 2001 Peivacy, secrecy, idiocy’, Social Research, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2002; ‘Staging power: Marx, Hobbes and the personification of capita’, Law and Critique, 2003; and “OMt the ‘map: on violence and cartography’, European Journal of Social Theory, 2003, Part of the argument in Chapter 1 was presented at the University of Sussex in January 2001 and 1 am grateful to Andrew Chitty and Darrow Schecter for the invitation. I fist presented the argument about secrecy and privacy in Chapter 2 in a paper at a conference jointly organized by the Central European University, Budapest, and the New School for Social Research, New York, held at the CEU in March 2001. 1 am grateful to the organizers forthe invitation and their hospitality, and to G.M. Tamas for his ‘encouragement, An updated version of the paper was given to colleagues at Brunel University in January 2002, who once again smiled and complained in the right places. Part ofthe argument in Chapter 3 were read and commented on (cit ally) by Magnus Ryner and Matthew Clayton. Robert Fine acted as external reviewer for Open University Pressand offered many useful suggestions on the final manuscript. The whole manuscript was also read by David Stevens, ‘whose simultaneous encouragement and ‘digging in of liberal heels allowed _me to improve the argument in places; Stuart Elden, who negotiated some of the tensions in our overlapping territories; Nick Moss, who kicked at other

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