However, because a number of textbooks that were consulted did not engageeither with the myth of 1648 or the myth of 1919, for the sake of space we have chosennot to cite them here

Whiggish reading

9/11 as a Deleuzian fragment i

To work against totalizing pulls within each approach andacross them—for example by seeking to build a synthesis that incorporates severalapproaches—can then mainly be done by including multiple approaches and fore-grounding the limits and tensions between them (

Not really. Fragments here arenot anomalies or problems that can be dealt with

imply openings—non-sense

YouTube video of torturingdevices operate as fragments that set series of actual practices (e.g., series of whattorturers do) and virtual sense making (e.g., formalized prohibitions of torture) atplay in thought that raises questions about familiar modes of criticizing torture.

Althusser’s structuralism derived from two antagonistic concepts of structure.

His critique of historicism and of subjectivism is crucial to under-stand how, in his later writings, it was possible to decouple structure from totality.

By staging the need for “sovereignty” in this way, Dean is not fracturingsovereignty through Foucaultian dispositifs that foreground relationality in hetero-geneity but rather reintroduces sovereignty as a master rationale that defines inter-national relations.

Breadsworth argues that a renewed critique of actual (and histori-cal) forms of domination has to answer to the challenge of “shaping the world asworld” in which any local processes are to be understood under a global framing ofthe economic and the political.

Hegelian dialectics

Drawing mostly on post-structural lineages,

Its aim is not to delete or fragment critique but torevisit criticality through a distinct mode of doing IPS that reconceptualizes the re-lation between fragment and structure in ways that explicitly work against returns ofgrand narratives and presumed wholes.

Keeping the main thrust of deconstructing the international, 3 we propose a revis-iting of criticality through fracturing analytics

theproblem of totalization and how to do structuralist analysis without totalizing.

We are par-ticularly concerned with how an intensified interest in the local, micro, and situatedis understood to be insufficient for critical knowledge, and how this assumption ofinsufficiency inscribes horizons of totalization into international political sociology

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