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Joshua Delpech-Ramey
Issue 122
...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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Tim Ingold
Issue 160
...complementarity, pitching western naturalists into a world of bodies and indigenous animists into a world of vapors–both demi-worlds which, if only they could be combined, would make a perfect whole–I...
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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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Amy Cook
Issue 110
...player king weep for Hecuba. Nothing is the thing that makes up the king. Nothing comes up thirty times in Hamlet.2 The presence of nothing in the text calls attention...
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Laura Elena Savu Walker
Issue 162
...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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Paul Hernadi
Issue 94/95
...no definition of it commands wide-spread acceptance. 5 One thing seems to me very clear, however: Despite the etymological derivation of “literature” from littera, the Latin word for “letter,” it...
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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 104
“Tout le monde abomine les explications de texte, c’est bien connu. Il n’y a que les professeurs de français pour ne pas le comprendre et commenter pesamment ce qui ne...
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Jean Pierre Sarrazac, Virginie Magnat
Issue 98/99
...of a performance, only to endow the absolute, gaping void of the modern stage with greater power. Behind the velvet curtain, our elders were able to conceive of the munificence...
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Josette Feral, Ronald P. Bermingham
Issue 98/99
...kinds of spectacle—dance, performance art, or multi-media art. It is to bring the nature of theater itself into focus against a background of individual theatrical practices, theories of stage-play, and...
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Virginie Magnat
Issue 98/99
...and research grounded in the French philosopher’s conception of theater contribute to further widen the chasm between theory and practice, for Diderot’s view implies disregarding the process-oriented nature of performance...
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Janelle G. Reinelt
Issue 98/99
...struggles,” enables a challenge to the limits of these discourses in light of an increasingly urgent imperative to rethink and resituate performance theory in relation to our contemporary transnational situation....
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Timothy Murray
Issue 98/99
...Consider the paradoxical situation of theatricality as it moves into the twenty-first century. Enhanced by the dazzling images of computer wizardry and the magical resonance of digitized sound, the public...
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yasser elhariry
Issue 154
...conditions and possibilities of its own rebirth. I take Tarkos’s first recorded video performance as a point of departure for contextualizing the landscape of contemporary French poetry, then define the...
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Johanne Villeneuve, Debbie Blythe
Issue 152
My aim in this essay is to offer a reading of the documentary Havarie (2016), a film by Philip Scheffner that is essentially based on complex and unusual relationship and...
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Erica O'Neill
Issue 149
John H. Muse’s Microdramas: Crucibles for Theatre and Time examines the production of short plays across the history of Western theatre practice, from the late-nineteenth century to contemporary performance. Categorizing...
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José Felipe Alvergue
Issue 140
...of these works, which were written in the 1930s and 1940s, builds a useful bridge between Heidegger’s philosophy on language and the performance of language itself. This distinction, which Ziarek...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 140
In this landmark book, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen combines and culminates the two strands of his substantial scholarly work: ecology and Medieval and Early Modern studies. Stone is ambitiously synthetic and...
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Sam W. Bloom
Issue 106
...the destruction and carnage from September 11. Central to her discussion is Art Spiegelman’s comic book account of events entitled In the Shadow of No Towers, which she compares to...
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Juri Auderset
Issue 165
...in regulating agriculture and the disintegrating impact of industrial capitalism on the livelihoods and way of life of farming communities. In the fall of 1945 and 1947, the URA organized...
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David Cunningham
Issue 107
...and those of a man he calls that “loathsome Leninist Breton” (MacCabe, 82). The comment is an aside—it appears in brackets and in a book devoted to the late 1960s...
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Jan Baetens
Issue 124
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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Antoine Volodine, Ben Streeter
Issue 160
...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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Tim Ingold
Issue 163
...be shy or socially awkward at the best of times–hanker for solitude, but they also crave the company of fellow literati. Hence their compulsive shuttling, back and forth, between town...
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Évelyne Trouillot
Issue 160
...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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B. Venkat Mani
Issue 160
...Barrackpore, Northern India. My name was Mangal Pandey, you called me a Sepoy. You hanged me for standing up against my subjugation by your British East India Company. Against your...
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
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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Frederik Byrn Køhlert
Issue 143
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...
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Rajeshwari Vallury
Issue 135
...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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Richard House
Issue 92
...the rubric of “complexity theory” suggest that the objects of disciplinary study can be categorized together as “emergent complex systems,” and redirect the project of the unification of science. The...
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Peter Szendy
Issue 160
...as simple as it is haunting, is inescapable: if breathing is never complete or completed (jamais définitive, writes Coccia in French), if it has to return again and again, isn’t...
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Kir Kuiken
Issue 148
...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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Martin Paul Eve
Issue 144
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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John Durham Peters
Issue 160
...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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Jan Söffner
Issue 160
...mere comparison: People who are suppressed and metaphorically lack the air to breathe would then simply compare their lives to the suffocation of George Floyd; the similarity between their suppression...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 160
...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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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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Andrew Sobanet
Issue 119
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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Roman Widder
Issue 165
This article reflects on the dynamics of the public sphere in the early modern period by analyzing the figure of the peasant and the notion of the common(s) in dialogue...
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Remy Lestienne
Issue 91
...hard time living without it. This is why the reminder of what evolution owes to chance, coming from certain contemporary biologists and paleontologists like Stephen Jay Gould, is salutory. The...
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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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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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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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Matt Jones
Issue 143
...jokes displays a continuation of the anarchic spirit that CH has developed since it was founded in 1969 as an outlet for far left, countercultural bande dessinée [comics] and critique....
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Michael A. Chaney
Issue 143
...to observe only the memes posted by Black and Red Anarchist on Facebook. Similar messages may be found in anti-racist (and to some extent anti-state) comics by African American artists....
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Ciro Incoronato
Issue 163
In his later writings, Althusser brings to light a repressed materialistic current in Western philosophy, ranging from Epicurus to Heidegger and Derrida. In this article, I argue that the comparison...
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Rosalyn Diprose
Issue 132
...recognition of shared vulnerability and interdependence, Murphy rightly supports the kind of ontology that this emphasis on vulnerability comes from: an ontology of human existence emerging from existential phenomenology that...
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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...