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Inhabiting a Viral Culture
...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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Dilection: On the Phenomenology of Child Drawing and the Genesis of Poetic Expression
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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The Postlingual Turn
...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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Exceedingly Non-Monolingual: Associating with Uljana Wolf and Christian Hawkey’s sonne from ort
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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The Inappropriable: On Oikology, Care, and Writing Life
...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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Shakespeare’s Spam Poethics
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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Faciality and Ontological Doubt in Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Photography
...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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Siren Enchantments, or, Reading Sound in Medieval Books
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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The Synecdoche of Poiesis
...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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Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations
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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(Auto)immunity, Racism, and Crisis: From the Biopolitical to the Allopolitical
...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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Sestina: Walter Benjamin at Port Bou
...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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Derrida’s Nonpower—From Writing to Zoopower
...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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Writing a Different Ending to the “World War” Pitting Humanity Against the Biosphere in Michel Serres and Jacques Derrida’s Philosophy
...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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The Hyperbolic Logic of Constraint in the Poetic Works of Jacques Jouet
...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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Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet (review)
...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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Deep Blue Geomediations: Following Lapis Lazuli in Three Ecological Assemblages
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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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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Geology, Myth, Media
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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Talking Before the Dead
...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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A Question of Faith? : Stengers and Whitehead on Causation and Conformationhale
...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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Primal Weaving: Structure and Meaning in Language and Architecture
...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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Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts by Daniel Albright (review)
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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Pedagogical Subversion: The “Un-American” Graphics of Kevin Pyle
...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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Intermedial Relations: A Critique of Reification Theory
...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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Le Fils and the Limits of Philosophical Ethics
...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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Belief in this World: The Dardenne brothers’ The Son and Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
...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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The Problem of Wild Minds: Knowing Animals in Grizzly Man and Ming of Harlem
...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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A Note on Deleuze and Renaissance Art
...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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Intermediality: Axis of Relevance
...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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Orality and Objectification: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Filmmakers and Translators
...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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The Meridian and the Eastern Front: Contemporaneity and the Ethos of Translation
...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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Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe (review)
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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Archimedean Points in a Network of Cosmological Metaphors: Fontenelle, Locke, Fichte, and Kant
...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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February 13: Paul Celan’s Political, Spiritual and Poetical Anarchies
...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...
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Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted
Marcel Proust, as a writer, was even more, shall we say (in order to invoke the first near-complete and also tea-based experience of involuntary memory had by the would-be-writer narrator...
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Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and the Theatre by Timothy Scheie (review)
...of his career and then ceased to do so, without comment, after 1960. Scheie argues that Barthes’ abandonment of the theatre reveals something important about the development of his thoughts...
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Mimesis & Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005 (review)
...valedictory stage. Coming hard on the heels of the 2007 publication of De la violence à la divinité, a single-volume collection of his four most important books (Mensonge romantique et...
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Fast Tracks to Narrative Empathy: Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization in Graphic Narratives
...neocortex. In comics and graphic narratives, illustrations of faces and bodily postures may capitalize on the availability of visual coding for human emotions, eliciting readers’ feelings before they even read...
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Poems and Monsters: Pierre Alferi’s “Cinépoésie”
...to one of his recent titles, everything begins. Ça commence à Séoul (2007) is the result of a collaboration between Pierre Alferi and sculptor Jacques Julien. In this poetic and...
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Perception, Imagination, and the Self: Pierre Alferi’s Fmn
...by the philosopher Colin McGinn. My aim is to suggest that Alferi’s concentration on the visual is bound to his belief that actual experience cannot be compartmentalized into experience of...
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Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience (review)
...silence nor noise nor mere sound, music is sound marked, qualified, stereotyped, somehow distinctive, and thus communicative. Music research presents practical challenges as well. While a scholar discussing a painting...
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The Navel of the Dream: Freud, Derrida and Lacan on the Gap where “Something Happens”
...in a 1996 essay entitled “Resistances” (“Resistances” 5). The dream has, to borrow a phrase from another context and J. Hillis Miller, “an inexhaustible power to generate commentary” (Miller 177)....
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Liberation Theology: Deleuze and Althaus-Reid
The contemporary relation between theology and philosophy is a complicated one, but there is at least one strand in theology that has always explicitly used philosophical mediations to clarify and...
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Exemplary or Singular?: The Anecdote in Historical Narrative
Although coming from different perspectives and periods, the two quotations above speak of the ambivalence that modern historiography has systematically displayed toward the anecdote since Voltaire. An anecdote—defined here as...
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Explorations in Poetics, and: La Poésie du lieu : Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge (review)
...Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His Marc Chagall and His Times (Stanford, 2004) won the American Koret Award for fiction and biography....
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Against the Image: Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal
...community of dwarves in an institution on the island, and the insurrection they launch against their keepers. The revolt is by turns, farcical, incompetent and destructive – setting fire to...
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Habit, Reason, and the Limits of Normativity
...count as a reason it must be able to be recognized as a reason by our interlocutors and be something that we can individually and collectively commit ourselves to—that is,...
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Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K
...I tried to take it all in and to be as comprehensive as possible, close reading letters and poring over drafts. When running out of time, I developed a more...
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“There’s no Lack of Void”: Waste and Abundance in Beckett and DeLillo
...distribution of resources—commodities as well as capital and mineral reserve—has traditionally been understood as an unequal sharing, as balancing the wealth of the few against the poverty of the many,...