What happens if the homo sacer kills before he can be killed? What if the dispossessed repossess what was taken from them? What if some agent declares a state of exception to the state of exception? Starting from the observation that Agamben and Butler/Athanasiou characterize bare life and the dispossessed, respectively, in terms of radical…[Read more]

Figure 7: Links, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 6: Corpus Terms, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 5: Cirrus word cloud, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 4: “New England Reformers” Collation, Side-by-Side Comparison

Figure 3: “New England Reformers” Collation, Heat Map

Figure 2: “New England Reformers” Collation, 1844 and Centenary Edition, Side-by-Side Comparison

Figure 1: “New England Reformers” Collation, 1844 and Centenary Edition, Heat Map