By Ghassan Hage

During this wealthy and insightful choice of essays, top anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings jointly teachers throughout political technology, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an exam into the event of ready. what's it to attend? What will we stay up for? and the way is ready attached to the social worlds within which we live?
From Beckett's darkly comedian play Waiting for Godot, to the perpetual ready of refugees to come domestic or to moments of extreme anticipation equivalent to falling in love or the start of a toddler, there are various ways that we wait. This compelling number of essays means that this event is likely one of the crucial stipulations that make us human and fasten us to others.

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Nealon, ‘Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern’. Beckett, Waiting for Godot, p. 37. , pp. 35, 38. Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5. This whole speech of Macbeth resonates powerfully with Waiting for Godot. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; Nandy, The Intimate Enemy. Waiting for Sociality 37 16 Feldman, Formations of Violence. 17 In Australia, the long history of settler-indigenous relations is the principal exception. One could also point to events or moments, such as the Cronulla riots. In China, of course, such scope for multiple coding is a recent phenomenon.

Dwyer and Minnegal, ‘Waiting for Company’. Knauft, Good Company and Violence, p. 1. , pp. 62–3. Dwyer and Minnegal, ‘Waiting for Company’, p. 27. Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom. html. For example Conrad, ‘It’s Boring’, p. 466; Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom, p. 21. Musharbash, ‘Boredom, Time, and Modernity’. Minnegal and Dwyer, ‘Money, Meaning and Materialism’. htm Ratner, ‘Agency and Culture’, p. 413. Although universal, the agentive capacity may be impaired as a consequence of, for example, neurological problems, senility, or extreme isolation through the early years of life.

These recurring language-games establish the identities (for the moment) of the individuals as related to each other through a third, 28 Waiting itself on trial—the faltering, perhaps collapsing, symbolic order, the demise of symbolic efficiency. Beckett enables us to see these moments of formation and collapse—the formation of what we might term a social-institution-for-the-moment—and then in the next moment to see how this falls away. Hence, his characters, perhaps like all of us, are waiting, caught between boredom and the lure of intensity.

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