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<html><body><h1>The Art of Surrender</h1>DECOMPOSING SOVEREIGNTY AT CONFLICT'S END<hr noshade size="1">By Robin Wagner-Pacifici</hr><h4>The University of Chicago Press</h4> Copyright &copy; 2005 The University of Chicago All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-226-86979-7 <hr noshade size='1'></hr><h3>Contents</h3><pre>Preface ixAcknowledgments xi1 THE PROBLEM OF SURRENDER...................................................1The End......................................................................2Archetypes in Action: A Word on Method.......................................3Cases of Surrender...........................................................8The Archaism of Surrender....................................................11The Conditions of Surrender: Toward a Political Semiotic.....................13Converging to Convert........................................................15The Etymology of Surrender...................................................17Etymological Coda............................................................22Surrenders as Actions in the Interstices.....................................23The Copies of Surrender......................................................252 WITNESS TO SURRENDER.......................................................29Bearing Witness at Breda.....................................................29What Is a Witness?...........................................................36The Visual Order of the Witness..............................................44Where Is the Witness?........................................................44What Does the Witness Do?....................................................47Signatories to the Scene.....................................................48Witness to a Disappearance...................................................50Looking at the Vanishing Point...............................................52Paper and Responsibility.....................................................563 THE EXCHANGES OF SURRENDER.................................................59The Dangers of Surrender.....................................................61The Case of the Unconditional Surrender......................................64The Nature of the Surrendering Exchange......................................69The Objects of Exchange......................................................74Originary and Secondary Objects of Contention................................74A Note on the Work of Maps...................................................76Civil War Territory..........................................................77The Fates of Warriors and Civilians..........................................78Transactional Objects of the Process of Surrender............................82Pledges, Oaths, Promises, and Pardons........................................86Instruments and Weapons of War...............................................88Symbolic Objects of Authority and Solidarity.................................90Tributes, Demonstrations, and Gestures.......................................91Sites of Exchange............................................................94Convergence and Divergence...................................................964 SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS AFTERLIFE..............................................98What Is Sovereignty?.........................................................100Types of Sovereignty.........................................................101Erotic Exchange and Vicarious Surrender......................................105Actions of the Sovereign.....................................................107Assumption and Divestment of Responsibility..................................109The Itinerant Sovereign......................................................111How to Recognize the Sovereign...............................................114Mapping Sovereign Relations..................................................118Agency without Sovereignty...................................................119How to Represent the Sovereign...............................................120The Multiplicity of Singularity..............................................122Sovereignty at the Scene?....................................................126The Uncopied.................................................................1285 THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF SURRENDER............................................133Borderline Scrutinies........................................................135Uneasy Appearances...........................................................137The Political Semiotic at Conflict's End.....................................138Demonstration and Deictics...................................................139Deictic Deferrals............................................................142Performatives and Transformations............................................144Representations..............................................................145Copies and Their Inversions..................................................147Underrepresentation and the Civil War........................................149On the Threshold of Assumptions and Divestments..............................149Notes........................................................................153Bibliography.................................................................189Index........................................................................199Color plates follow page 148</pre> </pre><blockquote><hr noshade size='1'>Excerpted from The Art of Surrenderby Robin Wagner-Pacifici Copyright &copy 2005 by The University of Chicago. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.<hr noshade size='1'></blockquote></body></html>

xii, 210 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory

The art of surrender : decomposing sovereignty at conflict's end