Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Missed Understandings -- 1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France -- 2 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking -- PART II Dispositionalities -- Preface -- 3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete -- 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy -- 5 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon's Sentimental Empiricism -- 6 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection -- 7 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…XII : America meridionale, Oceania, Antartide : Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Cile, Isole Falkland, Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Nuova Guinea, Nuova Zelanda e dipendenze, Nauru, Isole Figi, Samoa occidentali, Isole Tonga, Oceania britannica (Salomone britanniche, Gilbert e Ellice, Pitcairn), Nuove Ebridi, Oceania francese (Nuova Caledonia, Wallis e Futuna, Polinesia francese), Oceania degli USA (Hawaii, Samoa americane, Midway, Guam, Micronesia), Isole Cilene, Antartide, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction -- Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve -- Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless -- American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth -- Noise and signal : information theory in Don Delillo's White noise -- The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association -- The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow -- The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age…”