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The Freedom to Breathe
...this feeling for and the experience of freedom is not new. It is certainly not by chance, not when, for example, cigarette ads link freedom (of choice and attitude) to...
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The Air of Liberty: A Transatlantic Perspective
...Guardian, 8 June 2020, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/i-cant-breathe-george-floyds-words-reverberate-oppression. Accessed 10 July 2021. Rediker, Marcus. Foreword. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott, 2018, pp....
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Overtones: A Collage
...Afflicted with perfect pitch, Newborn couldn’t follow their cries and whispers. They flew free from the comforting staff. Still you feel them, hear their immeasurable sound. Don Cherry: “I’ve always...
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At the Beginning, There Was the Mask
...Joyce. “What is the Environmental Impact Of The Mining Industry?” WorldAtlas, 25 April 2017, www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-mining-industry.html Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of spirit.” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/spirit. Kilomba, Grada. “The Mask: Remembering Slavery,...
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Breathing Without a Head: Plant Respirations in John Gerrard’s Smoke Trees
...compares to other years,” National Geographic, Aug. 29, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-fires-cause-deforestation-graphic-map. Accessed March 29, 2021. Choy, Timothy K. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. Duke University Press,...
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Gasping for Breath: Democracy à bout de souffle?
...introduced was impelled by its fervent desire to reinvent democratic life and to imagine bold new forms of human emancipation, expression and collective self-actualization. Consider, for example, the throngs of...
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Or, Why the Body is Not Embodied
...things we claim can be entered into the process must come before it. Thus, the dualism of mind and body, to take just one example, is still there, just as...
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The Problem with Breath
...regular basis, falling in and out of love with the same wrong comrades, over and over again, and always out of sync. The loving gestures we composed were barely legible...
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Respire, Con-spire
...not exactly a responsibility, but something comparable to a compromise, commitment, or promise. It is a familiar tragedy that we breathe in a suffocating world and share in air polluted...
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Spirometer, Whale, Slave: Breathing Emergencies, c. 1850
...at least, it was common up until recently to routinely discount Black lung capacity by 10-15% compared to white. A difference in the means of two very varied populations became...
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Oppression
...and with the community that inhabits it. Going out of the mother, I come into the air, I enter into the world, and into the community of living beings. (312)...
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Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology
...readers. This story can be short and limited, like those in newspaper comic strips, or it can be sprawling, complex, and ambitious, like many comics series and graphic novels. Thus...
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Two Narracts
...l’horreur de la nuit continuait. Il courait au hasard, comme s’il était poursuivi ou comme s’il avait commis un crime. Les repères manquaient, rien n’était visible, et il comptait sur...
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Surfing the Sublime: Tim Winton’s Breath and Eco-Heroism
...role himself.5656On Winton’s solitary and somewhat macho persona in contemporary Australia, see this profile in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/books/tim-winton-shepherds-hut-australia-novelist.html. Accessed 8 June 2021. The last counter-heroic element in Breath...
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breathe
...the music/poetic balance of Cage’s work and features mesostic-generating programs by Jim Rosenberg, a pioneer of language art with computation. Remarks in the discussion signal the loss, once computation is...
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Conspiring (Sympnea and Dyspnea)
...when, during the second semester of this lecture course (§ 42), Heidegger follows “the path of a comparative examination of three guiding theses: the stone is worldless, the animal is...
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Learning to Breathe | FiveFragments Against Racism
...behind the thin veil of not one, but several diversity and solidarity statements, anti-racism trainings, commemorative plaques, climate surveys, and festive atmosphere of faculty-of-color receptions. Chauvin’s knee in the academe...
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Homeostasis and Extinction: Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”
...air sharing in the strictest sense, there is camaraderie derived from the awareness that all our air comes from the same source” (38). It is at a filling station that...
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Asphyxiations
...Shorter Prose 1945-1980, John Calder, 1984). Connor, Steven. “Choralities.” Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 3-23. —. “Ludicrous Inbodiment.” StevenConnor.com, Steven Connor, 2017, .com/inbodiment.html Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden: A...
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Be Strong, Breathe
...wind. Where am I? Come on! You can do it. Be strong. Come on, breathe! All my life I wanted to breathe, and now that they are urging me to,...
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Sublime Comedy: On the Inhuman Rights of Clowns
...those of a modern comedy. Beckett—whose theater, when “completed” correctly, is truly hilarious—was well aware of this. (75) Now of course the comedy Badiou has in mind here is not...
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Haïti Can’t Breathe
...few snippets of news come to me: the rise of kidnapping, political instability, the opposition declaring that the presidential mandate has ended, a government sponsored referendum to change the constitution,...
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Take My Breath Away
...immense comfort, confronts the (equally understandable) demand to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the building of factories, and the like. We’ve had our development, the West says. But you...
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From Where Do We Draw Breath? Air’s Absence and Blackness
...of Being/Power/ Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 2003, pp. 257–337.; and “1492: A New World View.” Race,...
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An Interview with Jacques Rancière: Playing Freely, from the Other, to the Letter
...shaped by Rancière’s most unexpected engagement. His surprisingly timely and committed responses via email kept allowing for more preparation, more consideration, and his ongoing encouragement eventually led to two initial...
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Comme Elle Respire: Memory of Breath, Breath of Memory
...exhaling and inhaling is learned for life—je t’aime comme je respire, elle parle comme elle respire, il ment comme il respire7676Translator’s note: these three expressions use breathing in ways that...
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Math Anxiety: Making Room to Breathe
...disparity suggest themselves: appointing more women and people of color in the profession; one-on-one tutorial assistance; research projects about the students’ personal environment; privileging pre-test, low-stakes work over timed tests;...
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Introduction: Breathe
...2020, SubStance‘s editorial committee expanded to include four new members: Églantine Colon, Marion Froger, Thangam Ravindranathan, and Rebecca Walkowitz. Emerging from a year darkened by a deadly global pandemic, yet...
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Breathing with Mountains
...Compositions Pierre Jardin’s geologic aspirations began with a Composition of Place, a meditative technique deployed in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola stipulates that “for contemplation or meditation...
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Fresh Air
...components. Again, we make science-fiction in found footage. We just look for commercials, images, and newspaper articles on the Web. When we give numbers, these numbers may be wrong (but...
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Breathing: Proustian Therapy
...is distilled into comedy, all terrifying thoughts temporarily banished as Proust the satirist comes out to play. His young narrator suffers periodic breathing “crises,” but for the most part these...
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Vomiting on New Friends: Charlie Hebdo and the Legacy of Anarchic Black Humor in French Comics
...editors made a show of their irreverence towards their new supporters, mocking the way their cause was being taken up by their erstwhile political nemeses. They poked fun at conservative...
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The Reject: Community, Politics and Religion After the Subject by Irving Goh (review)
...and Community,” attempts to uncover a theory of the reject in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship, in Deleuze’s thinking about community (specifically his conception of “nomadology”) and in several of Cixous’s...
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Abstraction in Comics
The study of narrative in comics (which I will use as a general term covering both mainstream comics and more highbrow graphic novels) has often been a mere copy of...
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On Sharing Breath
...of Matter, Duke University Press, 2007. Brennan, Teresa. Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy. Routledge, 2000. Burtner, Matthew. “Ecoacoustics.” MatthewBurtner.com, Matthew Burtner, 2022, www.matthewburtner.com/ecoacoustics. Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought....
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Pairing breaths: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmech’s Terminal Sud (2019)
...can provoke. The “vital affects” (Stern)9797“On ne peut parler d’affect ou de niveau d’activation comme on parlerait d’éléments statiques. Il faut tenir compte de la courbe exprimant son déroulement dans...
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“Survive”
...see how pervasive it is, from what we say of the “lifespan” of an institution to the trite “Live TV,” just to name a couple of examples that immediately come...
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The Touch of the Real in New Historicism and Psychoanalysis
...on the New Historicism since 1997, without recognizing its context in Greenblatt and the New Historicists’ querying of historiography. Would our fantastical student first assume that Greenblatt was a Lacanian?...
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Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons ed. by Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru and Andrei Terian (review)
...and its power to build an ever-expanding world community of practioners who are forming what has come to be known as a “theory commons” (ix). As the collection’s editors point...
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On the Nose
...uniqueness, see, for example, Ingold, pp. 349 We remarked earlier that olfaction has connections to various parts of the brain in ways that are not completely parallel with the other...
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“Everything is Breath”: Critical Plant Studies’ Metaphysics of Mixture
...assumed responsibility for the “inspirited” land. Kimmerer comments: Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They...
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Deleuze and World Cinemas by David Martin-Jones (review)
...industry. Among the works that comprise this body of writing, the offerings from Martin-Jones have been reliably lucid and instructive. His readership likely extends beyond committed scholars who are looking...
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French Writers and the Politics of Complicity (review)
In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes...
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Introduction: Comics and The Anarchist Imagination
This special issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on comics and the anarchist imagination. The curators of the 2014 British Library exhibition, “Comics Unmasked: Art and...
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Madness and the Night of the Poetic Community: The Just Desert of Malika Mokeddem’s Century of Locusts
...the supposedly unified essence of a community, a tear within the fullness of an immanence completely present to itself. The gap is the sign of a community confronted with itself...
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Life/Force: Novelty and New Materialism in Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter
New Materialism and Speculative Realism have obtained their avant-garde status by creating a simple division between their work and a past they characterize as constructivism or correlationism. While this satisfies...
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Inspiration/Expiration (Completion)
This text was co-written with an artificial intelligence (AI). This so-called author wrote a sentence, then the software continued, and so on, each influencing the other, completing each other. Another...
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Composing in Fragments: Music in the Essay Films of Resnais and Godard
...or pictorial components of audio-visual work all too often comes at the expense of examining systems of representation and signification that are not based on purely linguistic or visual constructions....
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Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Reading literature with the aid of computational techniques is controversial. For some, digital approaches apparently fetishize the curation of textual archives, lack interpretative rigor (or even just interpretation), and are...
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Comics, Form, and Anarchy
At least since their modern inception in the late nineteenth century, comics have been deeply entwined with anti-authoritarian politics and resistance. As the various contributors to this special issue point...