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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 147
Contemporary companion robots are designed to be the least uncanny creatures or the most endearing ones. But, of course, it is a bit uncanny to specifically design un-uncanny creatures....
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Eric Méchoulan, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 130
...of the public and the construction of a common ground. On the contrary, it seems that this allows the university to be appropriated by those with the means to do...
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Impact Boom! The Commodification of the University
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Adelheid Voskuhl
Issue 147
...the relationship between mechanistic philosophy and mechanical artisanship correlate with our methodological and epistemic commitments, such as intellectual history, Marxist social history, or internalism and externalism, and also with our...
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Sydney Levy
Issue 147
What does it take to make a machine that you may love and that has the potential of loving you back? It is the necessary conceptual components, as opposed to...
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Wendelin Werner, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 130
One of the recurring themes in discussions among mathematicians, whether in informal lunch hour talks or in more formal committees, is what might be called “simplistic impact-bashing.” We are more...
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Taylor Schey
Issue 130
But just what sort of Oedipus complex does Freud depict in Totem and Taboo? His entire account of the murder and the history it unfolds concerns the actions of a...
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Henriette Heidbrink
Issue 130
...rely on well-known narrative schemata, and on the other hand they comprise something that is actually impossible: alternative futures. One central thesis raised by spokespersons of the forking-path-debate claims that,...
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Eric Méchoulan, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 129
...a methodological point of view, they share the same scrupulous concern with the text and the same conceptual richness that allows them to combine, with exemplary rigor, philology and philosophy....
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David Oscar Harvey
Issue 128
...Wave in that both share the same historical moment and geographic space, as well as a common interest in exploring personal expression within cinematic signifying practices, and advancing the aesthetic...
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Andrew Ritchey
Issue 128
...us more about what is being classified” (24)? Perhaps the time has come to ask whether the distinction between a Left Bank group and the Nouvelle Vague still “tells us...
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Michael Jay Lewis
Issue 128
...that what prevents the logical use of fictional narrative as a model for actual behavior is not a discrepancy but rather a similarity between the two signifying fields: the common...
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Vincent B. Leitch
Issue 128
...interest, scholarly and popular receptions. This work is not an intellectual history, nor is it a hagiography, nor an exemplary life. Instead, it combines biography of Derrida’s personal life, professional...
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Claire Colebrook
Issue 127
...in any ethical theory, then this virtual universalism would always struggle alongside moral valorizations of specified communities. How do we, from the particular world we inhabit, begin to think of...
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Vanessa Doriott Anderson
Issue 127
...Magazine littéraire dossier devoted to Modiano, Maryline Heck, the dossier’s editor, announced the author’s “entry into the pantheon of French academia” while adding that “it seems the time has come...
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Ellen Spolsky
Issue 159
...her life by writing it. She turns a traditional genre of a young person’s coming of age into a neurologically realistic portrait of the growth of an artist by multiplying...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 159
...1976), available at the Berlin Academy of Arts. The author shows that later versions of Patterns of Childhood have more complex embedments in the chapter describing the adolescent protagonist’s relationship...
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Casey Schoenberger
Issue 159
...this paper uses the notion of “biological handicap,” proposed by Amotz Zahavi. As a peacock’s cumbersome tail feathers reduce its individual chances of survival but communicate valuable information to potential...
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Ben Streeter, Antoine Volodine
Issue 158
...was a can of beer or of Coke. Empty, light, the tin cylinder followed its noisy course then stopped, no doubt because it had come up against heavier, grimier trash....
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Saswat S. Das
Issue 158
Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence attempts a creative mapping of the forces of nonviolence. With leading thinkers of the world coming up with creative cartographies of violence, Butler’s mapping...
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Verena Andermatt Conley
Issue 157
...habitat and habitus. The depredations of COVID-19 tell us that we must urgently reset our physical and ethical compasses if we are to inhabit our many worlds with greater care....
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Thomas Gould
Issue 156
In light of a contemporary reinvigoration of the discourse of drawing, this article reconsiders the frontier between writing and drawing as expressive comportments, specifically through the theoretical discourse of child...
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yasser elhariry, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Issue 154
...the words we are producing on this page right here. It is, second, an axiom about the technologies of religion, media, communication, performance, translation, and circulation that distribute and also...
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Brigitte Rath
Issue 154
The pervasive default assumption that “normal” texts are monolingual erases a complexity that, when acknowledged, spills over the boundaries of disciplines. sonne from ort, an erasure project by Berlin-Brooklyn-based poets...
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Kélina Gotman
Issue 154
...thought, that come with parenting in an economy in crisis. Obliquely rearticulating the ‘work/life balance’ dyad to better think performative productivity in terms of oikological investments, the article performs another...
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Christine Hoffmann
Issue 154
This essay argues that amidst the superfluous clutter of spam is a credible ethos combining the poetic consolation of the early modern sonneteer with the indulgent excesses of a capitalist...
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Atėnė Mendelytė
Issue 154
...reveal the complexity of Meatyard’s art and explicate their so-called Symbolist suggestiveness as well as to show how the medium-specific boundary between painting and photography is fundamentally put into question....
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Ghenwa Hayek
Issue 154
...act of recalling the memory of Christ, and performing a memory ritual that is central to communal identity-formation and self-understanding. In modern times, anamnesis has been absorbed into the medical...
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Jeremiah Bowen
Issue 151
...distort our contemporary understanding of production. Nancy inadvertently dramatizes this distortion by mistranslating Plato’s account in a manner compatible with the Heideggerian contrariety, but incompatible with Nancy’s convictions regarding the...
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Marco Caracciolo, Shannon Lambert
Issue 150
In this essay, we identify and discuss three motifs that enable literary narrative to perform a shift from a phenomenological, common-sense understanding of the body to the far more challenging...
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Christopher Norris
Issue 150
...saw myself placed. There is not enough time to write all the letters I would have liked to write. —purportedly Walter Benjamin’s last communication, a postcard dated September 25, 1940)...
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Robert Briggs
Issue 149
...are often taken as foregrounding a compassionate ethics in the face of the vulnerable (animal) other. This paper traces a genealogy of Derrida’s occasional remarks on power and passivity to...
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Keith Moser
Issue 149
...philosophical, and ideological roots. Specifically, they problematize two of the most pervasive and lethal social constructs, the Genesis myth and the bêtemachine theory, which continue to breed complacency and ignorance....
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Peter Poiana
Issue 149
...defines when, where, and to whom he writes as well as which form it adopts. This raises the question of how it compares with earlier forms of the Oulipian constraint,...
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Paul A. Harris, Richard Turner
Issue 146
CO-MODIFIED: Rocks on Vinyl comprises nine 6′ x 3′ banners displayed like convention signage. They are presented as a series of speculative geomedia landscapes that explore contemporary human entanglements and...
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A.J. Nocek
Issue 146
This article argues for the relevance of mythical signification in our geological epoch. More than this, it contends that we need to revise our assumptions about media and communication systems...
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Maud Meyzaud
Issue 146
...Diable (1846) or Francois le Champi (1847–48). At that time, Hugo’s masterpiece, Les misérables (1862), which would have a tremendous impact on Baudelaire’s prose poem project, is still to come....
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Michael Halewood
Issue 145
...comments on how their remarks could help us reorient how we approach some of the unexpected interrelations between faith and cause in science, philosophy, and social science. Stengers’s stance does...
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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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Davide Panagia
Issue 142
...the fixtures and fittings of a building or shop, or the parts of a machine” (108). Agencement is, in this regard, a compelling word in ways that assemblage is not....
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Béatrice de Montera
Issue 142
...discourse, it seems more meaningful to come back first of all to the rough material of research in play in this specific area. That is, starting from the perspective of...
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Damian Cox
Issue 141
...a kind of achievement: the Wittgensteinian achievement of elucidating the inner connections between aspects of a thing, but also a representation that captures some of its richness, complexity and ambiguity....
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Lisa Trahair
Issue 141
...the boy Francis out to the sawmill (the trip being compared to Abraham and Isaac’s journey to Moriah) in order to seek personal retribution for the murder of his son....
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Jimena Berzal de Dios
Issue 139
...Withdrawn and private, the Renaissance appears not as a compelling or enticing adversary, but a bureaucratic administrator of the state machine, instituting universal regulations and a system of surveillance without...
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Christopher Watkin
Issue 138
...and calls of the natural world.1 To date, the Anglophone reception of this complex and varied oeuvre has been slender to the point of emaciation, but one area where he...
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Benoît Turquety
Issue 137
...an artificial set of constraints, designed to complicate a game that would otherwise be too simple; rather, they define the artist’s position in the world, in the historical moment and...
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Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt
Issue 137
...This essay argues that translation is more than the communication of meaning or the transmission of information through time, that it displays a powerful way of disclosing a future in...
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Clément de Gaulejac, Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt
Issue 137
...one of my films.” – Raoul Ruiz Definition In French, the expression “téléphone arabe” has two meanings: 1) An oral communication and, furthermore, a rumor or unreliable information; 2) A...
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Milisava Petković
Issue 137
...and comments on the political aims she has formed through her own life experience as a dancer, dance instructor, academic researcher and author, feminist, woman, mother, and English-speaking Pākehā, the...
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Kazutaka Sugiyama
Issue 137
Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics has become one of today’s most compelling sociocultural theories informing study of the relationship between power and life. While Foucault deployed the concept in a...