stati quo

English

Etymology

Erroneously formed by treating Latin status as a masculine noun of the second declension, in which, in the nominative case, the singular form ends in -us and the plural form in -i. Status is a fourth-declension noun, the plural of which is statūs.

Noun

stati quo

1. (rare, hypercorrect) plural of status 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:

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

   • 1999, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, original proposal and subsequent outline for Batman: No Man’s Land; published in Dennis O’Neil, The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001, →ISBN, page 109:

     Oracle narrates tour of sectors, introing villains' status quos (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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

   • 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:

     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).

   • 2022, Vangelis Giannakakis, “Prologue”, in Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page xvi:

     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.”

Related terms

• stati