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.

Oracle narrates tour of sectors, introing villains' status quos (stati quo?)

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.

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.

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

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).

It is this particular notion of philosophy as a correlative of social-historical forms of resistance against repressive stati quo, Marcuse claims, that allows (critical) theory to “continually confront the already attained with the not yet attained and newly threatened,” but also to determine “on one side the cause of freedom and on the other the cause of suppression and barbarism.”