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Customised Down Under
Michael Abdul-Karim's second book after Observation Status, Customised Down Under tells the story of Antoun El Hani, a middle aged businessman, and his wildest and worst nightmare. An unexpected trip to Sydney for a period of two weeks paid for by a friend results El Hani being charged with the importation of large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs contrary to section 23B(1)(d) of the Customs Act, a charge that could carry a life sentence. After accepting advice and entering a guilty plea, El Hani is sentenced to 20 years jail with 15 years non-parole. The unforgivable mistakes of the high profile defence team retained by El Hani's French wife and daughter to represent him in a simple plea that was listed for one day. The court room drama that followed over a four day plea hearing makes reading this book a must for those who appreciate the art of advocacy at its worst by those who claim to be its masters and charge accordingly. Mrs. El Hani and her daughter paid in excess of $140,000 in legal fees for a one day guilty plea.
The Exploitation of Individuation
This project develops out of the simple question: how does information function within today’s so-called Information Age? In contemporary critical theory, specifically in the thought of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, the answer has been posed in terms of immaterial labor and a new mode of “informatized production.” Though this project is not meant as a total critique of Negri and Hardt’s work, it is meant as a particular critical intervention: one proposing that their understanding of this new, “informatized” process of valorization functions via a reified understanding of information. In positing information as always-already complete, value-rich pieces of wealth, Negri, Hardt...
The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology
Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.
Metrical Stress Theory
In this account of metrical stress theory, Bruce Hayes builds on the notion that stress constitutes linguistic rhythm—that stress patterns are rhythmically organized, and that formal structures proposed for rhythm can provide a suitable account of stress. Through an extensive typological survey of word stress rules that uncovers widespread asymmetries, he identifies a fundamental distinction between iambic and trochaic rhythm, called the "Iambic/Trochaic law," and argues that it has pervasive effects among the rules and structures responsible for stress. Hayes incorporates the iambic/trochaic opposition into a general theory of word stress assignment, intended to account for all languages ...
Virality
In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson, contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is how society comes together and relates. Sampson argues that a biological knowledge of contagion has been universally distributed by way of the rhetoric of fear used in the antivirus industry and other popular discourses surrounding network culture. This awareness is also detectable in concerns over to...
Libertarian Socialism
The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation. Bringing together specialists workin...
Without History
On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a primarily indigenous group that has declared war on the state of Mexico. The massacre has been attributed to a paramilitary group composed of ordinary citizens acting on their own, although eyewitnesses claim the attack was planned ahead of time and that the Mexican government was complicit.In Without History, Jose Rabasa contrasts indigenous accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with state atte...
