I recently finished the first chapter of my dissertation, or at least the penultimate version thereof. The following is the Table of Contents:
Chapter One: On the Making and Unmaking of Life; or, Slavery as a Practice of Mastery
I. The State of War Continued
II. Veritable Lovers of System
The moderation of the body
The cultivation of sentiment
The inculcation of habits
III. The Symbolic Chain
The plantation as social psychosis
“A want of information…”
IV. The Ethopoiesis of the Slave
The Columbian Orator
Free association in the woods
Becoming a freeman; or, on the absence of a subject of enunciation
I’ll be posting a synopsis here fairly soon, but for now the outline will do. *update: dissertation can now be found here
Absalom, Absalom! 