In the present paper a research has been done on the essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ by’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’. It has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references. Also the criticism has been done by various critiques from various sources which is helpful from examination point of view. The paper has been divided into various contexts with an introduction and the conclusions. Also the references has been written that depicts the sources of criticism.

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Can the Subaltern Speak

How to address empirically the calculative character of markets without dissolving it? In our paper, we propose a theoretical framework that helps to deal with markets without suspending their calculative properties. In the first section, we construct a broad definition of calculation, grounded on the anthropology of science and techniques. In the next sections, we apply this definition to three constitutive elements of markets: economic goods, economic agents and economic exchanges. First, we examine the question of the calculability of goods: in order to be calculated, goods must be calculable. In the following section, we introduce the notion of calculative distributed agencies to understand how these calculable goods are actually calculated. Thirdly, we consider the rules and material devices that organize the encounter between (and aggregation of) individual supplies and demands, i.e. the specific organizations that allow for a calculated exchange and a market output. Those three elements define conc...

Peripheral Vision Economic Markets as Calculative Collective Devices

A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant" Part I: Foundations Chapter 1 "Planning & Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State Chapter 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State Chapter 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion Chapter 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy Chapter 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety Part II: Transformations Chapter 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 Chapter 7 Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688 Chapter 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century Chapter 9 "A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure" Abbreviations Glossary Notes Index

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Review(s) of: Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things, by Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, ISBN 0521539455, 310 pp.

Book review - Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy (eds) (2004) - Law, Anthropology and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things

This article draws together two trajectories of legal scholarship: the turn to the visual in legal studies and the emergence of the subfield of law and comics, or ‘graphic justice’. It does this via an analysis of superhero comics as fitting within a particular genealogy of the ius imaginum, or law of images. This is not to argue simply that superhero comics are dominated by narratives of law, justice and legality—they are—but rather that the very theatrical figure of the superhero and its encompassing of a dual persona is a presentation of a particular political theology of the image. The article analyses the way in which this political theology is rendered visible in Charles Soule’s Daredevil: Back in Black, highlighting the image of the superhero and its connection to both sovereignty and the biopolitics of personhood.

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Daredevil as Legal Emblem

Where is the Law in Star Wars? Why in films so resonant with our current times, saturated with technology, enmeshed in political turmoil and structured by international—or, rather, intergalactic—commerce has the law been jettisoned like space trash from an Imperial Cruiser? My argument is that despite the lack of any overt references to law and legality, the Star Wars franchise in its mythological creation, as well as its capitalist construction, is in fact saturated with law. This law can be found in both the mythology and legality of ‘the Force’—that mystical energy field that supposedly binds the galaxy together, desires a sense of universal order and balance and seeks to regulate destiny itself. This is not simply to read ‘the Force’ in its mythical trappings as a form of natural law that seeks to provide balance to the universe, but, rather, as a representation of modern law and its concern with the defence and preservation of order. As such, this article seeks to ‘read’ Star Wars and ‘the Fo...

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'The Force' as Law: Mythology, Ideology and Order in George Lucas's Star Wars

'It's a classic depiction of Good versus Evil' Elijah Price tells the potential buyer of a piece of art. This 'piece of art' is an early sketch of a battle between two characters in a comic book and is on display at Price's art gallery, Limited Edition, in the world of M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 film Unbreakable. Popular culture is replete with such dualities of Good and Evil - the good hero invariably battling the evil villain. One of the clearest spaces where this battle is given visual and bodily form is in the comic book superhero genre that Shyamalan draws upon in Unbreakable and to which Elijah Price is referring. While this genre is inherently absorbed with matters of justice, legality and criminality - and of Good and Evil - it has traditionally been dismissed as not only a form of popular culture and mere entertainment but as the lowest form of popular culture - that is, as 'crude, poorly-drawn, demi-literate, cheap, disposable kiddie fare...' (McCloud 1993: 3). That is not to say that the comic books and graphic novels have not been recognised as being able to deal with serious issues or engage with serious social problems. However, given the connection of recent superhero comics and their filmic adaptations to post-September 11 anxieties around terrorism and the need for 'extraordinary measures' to contain, overcome or respond to terrorist action, this genre is too easily seen as reinforcing an over-simplified, Manichaean, un-nuanced perspective on the world and the existence of forces of Good and Evil as opposed to a legitimate space for discussion of philosophic or jurisprudential matters.

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Comic book mythology: Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and the grounding of good in evil

From Star Trek to Star Wars, popular culture is replete with images and signs of what might be called theological bad infinity that is, a law of endless binarism, of recurrent dualities of good and evil, the one (Anakin Skywalker) turning into the other (Darth Vader). I want to interrupt this disseminatory flow, in order to investigate how this essentially pagan cosmology of replicating balance, of law s symbolic harmony is challenged, even undone, by an alternative, radical Christian theology as embodied in the figure of Batman-as-Christological type. In so doing, I will use popular culture (specifically Batman Begins) to propound a theology, as well as legality, of the Real, drawing upon such sources as Slavoj i ek, Alain Badiou, and Joseph Campbell.

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Timothy D Peters

Papers

Book review - Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy (eds) (2004) - Law, Anthropology and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things

Daredevil as Legal Emblem

'The Force' as Law: Mythology, Ideology and Order in George Lucas's Star Wars

Comic book mythology: Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and the grounding of good in evil

Unbalancing Justice: Overcoming the Limits of the Law in Batman Begins