stati quo

In the second place, as I have shown, coercion can be defined only in terms of an infinite variety of arbitrary alternative stati quo.

1963, Paul A[nthony] Samuelson, “Modern Economic Realities and Individualism”, in The Texas Quarterly, volume 6, Austin, Tex.: The University of Texas, page 136

More particularly, there is no suggestion of introducing residency requirements, meaning that the current trickle of terminally ill patients into Switzerland from more conservative countries in search of an ‘easy death’ may grow substantially in future years if other jurisdictions maintain their stati quo.

2006, J[ohn] K[enyon] Mason, G[raeme] T. Laurie, “[Euthanasia] Passive voluntary euthanasia”, in Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics, 7th edition, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 615

Quite the opposite, such events ‘ruptured’ (2003: 2) the prevailing scientific, religious, political or artistic stati quo, retroactively affecting the symbolic coordinates of their situation in such a way that what had hitherto been unthinkable suddenly became possible.

2010, David Vilaseca, “Antigone in Hyde Park: Homosexuality and the Ethics of the Event in Antonio Roig’s Autobiographical Trilogy”, in Queer Events: Post-Deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s to 1990s, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 66

The HPS should consider the existing stati quo of the organisations involved (and interested) in harbour protection.

2012, Kalin Kalinov, “The Asymmetric Nature of Terrorist Organisations and Its Impact on Maritime Security System Structure”, in Silvia Ciotti Galletti, editor, Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: Logistics, Strategies, Scenarios (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series; E: Human and Societal Dynamics; 95), Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, page 102

The poles of ideology and critique are, respectively, naturalising and historicising operations, but they need not refer only to a bipartisan historical struggle between a present bourgeois culture and a future communist utopia. Instead, these can also be understood as operations that seek to perpetuate or interrogate various stati quo in relation to what Antonio Gramsci calls ‘hegemony’, or a ‘war of position’ (1971).

2019, Brad Haylock, “What is critical design?”, in Gretchen Coombs, Andrew McNamara, Gavin Sade, editors, Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN