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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Verdana"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">hello all,</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">this new book by Associate Professor Joseph Pugliese may be of interest to CS scholars and postgrads.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">cheers,</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">holly.</font></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><br></p>
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<p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 28px/normal Calibri; "><b>State Violence and the Execution of Law </b></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Calibri; "><i>Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones </i></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Calibri; "><span style="font: 16.0px Calibri">By <b>Joseph Pugliese, </b></span>Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Calibri; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Calibri; "><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Calibri; min-height: 14px; "><br></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style="font-size: 16pt; "><i>State Violence and the Execution of Law </i>stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the United States government deploys law in order to consolidate and further imperial relations of power, Pugliese tracks the networks that enable the diffusion and normalization of the state’s monopoly of violence both in the US and in an international context. He demonstrates how networks of state violence are embedded within key legal institutions, military apparatuses, civilian sites, corporations, carceral architectures, and advanced technologies. The author argues that the exercise of state violence, as unleashed by the war on terror, has enmeshed the subjects of the Global South within institutional and discursive structures that position them as non-human animals that can be tortured, killed and disappeared with impunity. Drawing on poststructuralist, critical race and whiteness, and critical legal theories, the book is transdisciplinary in its approach and value. It will be invaluable to university students and scholars in Critical Legal and Socio-Legal Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, International Politics, and Postcolonial Studies.</font></p></p></font><br><br><span class="ecxecxecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><div><span class="ecxecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal;"><span class="ecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></pre><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Dr. Holly Randell-Moon</span><br>Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies<br>Faculty of Arts<br>Macquarie University, NSW 2109<br>Australia</pre><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal;"><span class="ecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"></span></pre></span></div></span><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span"></span></div><div><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;"><pre style="white-space:normal;"><font class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_Apple-style-span"><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_Apple-style-span"><pre style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:normal;">Editor<br><i>Critical Race and Whiteness Studies</i><br><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:rgb(12, 12, 12);"><a href="http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal</a></span></pre><pre style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:normal;"><i>Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century</i><br><a href="http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12018&title_id=9001&calctitle=1" target="_blank">http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12018&title_id=9001&calctitle=1</a></pre><pre style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:normal;"><font class="ecxecxApple-style-span" face="Verdana">------</font></pre><pre style="white-space:normal;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="2" face="Verdana"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;min-height:1px;">"Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive. <br></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;min-height:1px;">Now, no one’s got anything to say. Write a song? No thanks, I’ll say it on Twitter. It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records" - Noel Gallagher</p></font></pre></span></font></pre></span></div> </div></body>
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