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The results of 140 total hip revision procedures for "non-septic" loosening, dislocation, and fracture of the femoral stem or shaft have been personally reviewed and rated by the Harris method. The minimum follow-up period was six months: thirty-three (24 per cent) showed excellent or good results, seventy-two (51 per cent) showed fair or poor results. Subsequent excision arthroplasty was performed in thirty-one patients. The infection rate for these revision procedures was very high, suggesting that many were already infected at the time of revision, and that every "loose" hip must be assumed to be infected until proved otherwise. The mortality rate of 3 per cent was surprisingly low after more than one major surgical procedure in these elderly patients.

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This essay examines the temporal logics of contemporary disaster management. I discuss episodes from the expansion of the global disaster management complex—in the United States after WWII, and in Indonesia after the New Order—to characterize the form of futurity established through the technocratic administration of systematically-envisioned catastrophe. Disaster management projects a shallow future whose indeterminacy does not stimulate aspiration toward transcendence of the given, but rather motivates an endless procedural loop of anticipation and pre-emption in order to delay the destruction of the present order. Disaster management thus refashions “action” as the postponement of the future, and in doing so explicates a basic but neglected temporality of liberalism—that of vigilance toward continually-renewed danger.