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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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Peter Consenstein
Issue 129
...[1995]), as well as a seven-volume (and “six-branch”) “récit autobiographique,” which David Bellos has compared to the work of Marcel Proust.1 The three books Roubaud published in 2008 and 2009,...
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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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Ursula K. Heise
Issue 127
...them public. The slogan “Think globally, act locally,” coined by René Dubos in 1970, similarly summed up environmentalists’ commitment to a vision of planetary connectedness, as did Kenneth Boulding and...
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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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Chris Crews
Issue 159
...Most readers are likely familiar with some version of the Anthropocene by now, and its usage in these books (with a few exceptions) follows a common refrain in the humanities...
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Églantine Colon
Issue 158
...any other “post-exotic” text (I will come back to this label shortly). One has to learn how to orient oneself to the ruination of Modernity, within the dysfunctional memories of...
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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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Kamil Lipiński
Issue 158
In Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Ethnography, Paolo Magagnoli has undertaken the complex task of linking different aesthetic contexts through a study of experimental documentary audiovisual projects, treating...
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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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Sarah Kay
Issue 152
This paper reflects on the complexity of reading medieval voiced texts, where “reading with one’s ears” puts literary criticism on a convergence course with the history of the book. The...
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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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Chris Hall
Issue 150
...to-come. The article therefore moves from the biopolitical, to what I term the allopolitical, an unknown politics of alterity that allows for the welcoming of political alternatives capable of bringing...
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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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Alex Moskowitz
Issue 149
...in monologues where Foucault mobilizes categories of race and gender while Marx focuses on class analysis. While any comparative study runs the risk of descending into banality, Bidet’s refreshing attentiveness...
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Patricia Pisters
Issue 146
On my desk, next to my laptop, a small piece of lapis lazuli. My eye is captured by the intense blue from its most important component, the mineral lazurite. The...
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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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Vinciane Despret
Issue 145
...suspicion or may even generate propositions of ironic complicity: “Of course, for sure, for you and for me, we know this is nonsense; that which you are talking about is,...
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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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Jason Rhys Parry
Issue 144
...from the blaze, moved closer to it and began to throw more wood on it. Using sign language, those feeding the flames communicated to the others the virtues of the...
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 144
I undertook this review to celebrate Daniel Albright’s contributions to the theory of interrelations among the arts, and had nearly completed it before learning that he had died early in...
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Allan Antliff
Issue 143
...of graphic artist Kevin Pyle, an American-born artist with a substantive body of illustrated books and comics addressing a myriad of issues. I am interested in how Pyle undermines and...
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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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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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Mathew Abbott
Issue 141
...Look at Animals?”2 There, Berger inquires into what it is for “man” to encounter “the animal” – which, as he puts it, “scrutinizes him across a narrow abyss of non-comprehension.”...
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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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Rémy Besson
Issue 138
...digital productions. In such cases, intermediality is a tool that is placed in the service of a comparativist and multidisciplinary approach to research (Mueller). As a concept, then, it is...
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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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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...
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Monika Tokarzewska
Issue 135
...the Earth doubles as a planet in the universe and the foundation upon which people raise buildings. Both metaphorical fields come together most prominently when Fichte draws on the anecdote...
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Antti Salminen
Issue 135
...3 190). In his biography John Felstiner briefly mentions Celan’s affiliation, noting that the poet soon relinquished his communist sympathies but stood loyal to the ethoi of socialism and anarchism...