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Rosalyn Diprose
Issue 132
...“yield a prescriptive ethics” of non-violence, given that awareness of vulnerability in oneself or others can just as easily provoke violence (75). There is also a concern that emphasizing vulnerability...
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Thangam Ravindranathan
Issue 160
...Roy, had become “the new currency” on the nation’s “morbid new stock exchange,”with Twitter engorged with pleas for oxygen cylinders and hospital beds with ventilators, while officials got to work...
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Razvan Amironesei, Louis-Étienne Pigeon
Issue 142
...and orients the relation between sensation, politics and the body. In addition, the above example will constitute a thought experiment that will allow us to test our hypothesis that links...
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Samantha MacBride
Issue 116
In Manhattan’s Union Square, residents queue patiently, holding unwanted computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, cables, and monitors. The New York City Department of Sanitation, charged with managing 3.5 million tons...
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Ranjan Ghosh
Issue 127
...of nature? Is living with/in nature all about encountering the spectre of the “unborn”—those who will come after us and who in some sense now must command the unfolding of...
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Suzanne Nash
Issue 143
Pierre-Alain Tilliette is a Breton writer, who lives with his family in Paris, where he is Conservateur des fonds étrangers at the Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville. The tragi-comic inventiveness...
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Mark Bonta
Issue 121
Though it has been claimed that Deleuze sought to delink his thought from all religion (Bryden), a close examination of his major writings, as well as his collaborative work with...
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Michael Sheringham
Issue 123
This article focuses on Alferi’s second book of poetry, Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif, published in 1992. It is a companion piece to my article, “Pierre Alferi and the...
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Charlie Michael
Issue 133
...type of odd couple is common in French farce (as in Hollywood buddy comedies), the film’s strangely inscrutable title gives pause. Lacking an article in French, intouchables becomes a floating...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 159
...in Nazi Germany and want to come to terms with your transformation from a teenage acolyte of Hitler to a famous East-German writer, you should write a brilliant soul-searching memoir...
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Luce Irigaray
Issue 160
...That is not to say that I have merely adopted these cultures as mine, the matter is more complex. For example, we have developed, in the West, a subjectivity that...
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Katherine Ibbett
Issue 160
...in the organizing of English and Dutch and German responses to Huguenot suffering, came a new organization of transnational political community. During the years of the Refuge, at a moment...
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Jeeshan Gazi
Issue 139
...the purpose of this article is to examine what Kracauer actually means when he writes, “My book differs from most writings in the field in that it is a material...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 116
...individual freedom, and communal life in the future? Toward this end, Stoekl explores several related strands of Bataille’s thought on energy, religion, ethics, and community in light of contemporary culture....
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Matthew B. Smith
Issue 150
Rachel Galvin’s News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 is a focused and forceful study of six major modernist poets who crafted similar styles in response to WWII and the Spanish...
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Jean-Philippe Mathy
Issue 135
...who were made responsible for it, while at the same time providing evidence of a new creative community ready to usher in a bright future for literary writing in the...
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Michael A. Chaney
Issue 143
...and Baton Rouge to “a collapse of the social order.” Clarke opined that “many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcends peaceful protest and violates...
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Réal Fillion
Issue 142
Jacques Rancière, it seems to me, is right: politics are rare (Rancière 1999; May 2008). Democratic political action makes manifest the part that has no part—not as a protest against...
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Andrew Barnaby
Issue 128
...our parents coming together. —Justin Martyr, First Apology In discussing the impact of traumatic experience on the workings of memory, Bessel van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart challenge...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 140
I love bringing my six-year-old to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when we are in New York in the summer. On Thursdays, they have a special hour for children. A...
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Laurence Simmons
Issue 132
Jacques Derrida began a lecture entitled “Comment ne pas trembler,” that he delivered on 17 July 2004 at the Fondazione Europea del Disegno in Meina on the shores of Lago...
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Krzysztof Skonieczny
Issue 154
In The Inoperative Community Jean-Luc Nancy suggests that his conception of speech as the cornerstone of community can be likened to the image of two Inuit women engaging in traditional...
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Imani Perry
Issue 160
...wing is bruised and his bosom sore,— When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that...
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Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
Focusing on visual and textual representations of squatting and women’s resistances against apartheid in the comic book series Crossroads (2014-2016), this article examines how graphic history may enable a more...
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Adilifu Nama
Issue 160
...of wealth extraction enshrined the public ruin of Black bodies with public beatings to compel compliance, and later public lynchings to intimidate and psychologically terrorize Black folk into a forever...
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Denis Mellier, Charles La Via
Issue 147
From the fantastic inscribed on bodies, frightening as well as suffering bodies, and cinematic technologies inventing new spectacular forms of these bodies, a history of the one based on the...
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Daveeda Goldberg
Issue 150
...such things by a self-reflective and self-parodic Jewish comedy writer. So, it’s a question that antisemites may imagine Jews to ask, and one that Jews may imagine antisemites imagine Jews...
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Mitchell Kerley
Issue 145
Two recent texts join the field of research on the Oulipo writing group. The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement is a slim volume, mostly comprising two...
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Frida Beckman
Issue 125
Time and history have come to play a particularly important role in the understanding of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. While his conception of time—built among other things on the...
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S.F. Kislev
Issue 151
...in the system? This paper suggests that Hegel’s method can be seen to work at the level of paragraph composition. It proposes that Hegel’s use of a certain form of...
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Peggy Kamuf
Issue 134
...it come, the unexpected world, where all will have come and gone, again, an utterly changed world, not the same and yet still abiding, still awaiting, still bearing what is...
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Agnès Disson, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 123
“L’Hypothèse du compact” is the title of a text by the poet Jacques Roubaud that appeared in the first issue of the Revue de Littérature Générale in 1995, edited at...
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Grégory Chatonsky
Issue 140
It seems that brain, thought and computer have become intertwined and now share a common fate. An important part of neuroscience not only requires a computational paradigm but also relies...
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Aden Evens
Issue 126
...the computer, as active input falls to the fingertips. At the computer, you express yourself, communicate your desires, by executing a gesture chosen from among a very few possibilities: you...
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Leif Weatherby
Issue 135
Romanticism was a philosophical movement concerned with the question of orders—orders of things, of persons, of being. Friedrich von Hardenberg, the Early German Romantic who called himself Novalis, writes that...
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Luk Van den Dries
Issue 160
...tight collaboration with Jan Fabre and the three most important performers/teachers of the Belgian theatre company, Troubleyn (Annabelle Chambon, Cédric Charron, and Ivana Jozič). The book sheds new light on...
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Milisava Petković
Issue 137
Dancing Across the Page is a monograph by New Zealand author Karen Barbour, a contemporary choreographer and performer with scholarly training in philosophy and the social sciences. As her title...
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Andrea Loselle
Issue 118
...antiquity to the ephemeral newspaper—to verify its unreliability. That is not to say that a keen awareness of its origin in speech does not also work itself into examinations of...
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Matthew Scully
Issue 148
...of the new” (1). Citing the familiar maxim of Ezra Pound, “make it new,” Wasser locates in the problem of novelty the problem of modern art as such. Modernity inherits...
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Bruno Chaouat
Issue 138
...dedicated to reading pedagogy and to the pedagogy of reading. Hence, for example, the surprise of finding the theory that the Nouveau Roman and structuralism (Roland Barthes included) are new...
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Melanie Sehgal
Issue 145
“Aesthetics” is not a concern that figures prominently in Isabelle Stengers’s work and it is not difficult to find the reasons why. Reading the discipline of aesthetics through a historical...
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...without respite. Like that boat that didn’t stop pitching like a mean and savage wind. Where am I? Come on! You can do it. Be strong. Come on, breathe! All...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 147
The aim of this paper is to study the relationship of companion robots to the uncanny, using popular depictions of these robots. I start by presenting a few companion robots...
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Andrew Benjamin
Issue 117
The dog appears. Its head is above the line. Is the dog slipping back? Its head is on the line. Is it submerging again, tasting death as the admixture of...
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Craig Fischer, Suzanne Keen
Issue 124
In this era of the graphic novel, we are used to seeing comic books—that is, comic magazines—migrate to the bookshelf in the form of bound collections. Yet do these collections...
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Pascal Lefèvre
Issue 124
...what follows I shall focus on some narrative opportunities and constraints in the medium of comics, as compared to those of other narrative media such as printed texts and cinema....
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David H. Fleming
Issue 141
...survivor testimonies and interviews. The documentary also embeds alarming images from Mohammed Ajmal Kasab’s interrogation, the sole captured terrorist, as he describes his background, training, and the motivation behind his...
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Peter Fenves
Issue 126
While searching for the original meanings of the river names of Germany, the etymologist soon discovers that in many cases the names derive from words meaning “river.” So prevalent is...