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Teleiopoetic World
...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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Arbitrary Limbs
...fantasy, and lead to derangement, or madness. To own such a view would lead to worse, I suspect. However, my fancier friend argued it was not deranged to demand common...
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Haïti Can’t Breathe
...turmoil that threatened the company’s commercial interests, among other things. If you will excuse these numerous dates, in 1957, François Duvalier came to power. Less than two years later, with...
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An Interview with Jacques Rancière: Playing Freely, from the Other, to the Letter
When I first contacted Jacques Rancière in March 2017, nearly three-and-a-half years before the completion of this interview, a few basic questions were growing heavy. Questions limited to current political...
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Interpreting Intouchables: Competing Transnationalisms in Contemporary French Cinema
...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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The Story of the Raven and the Robot*
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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Comment on “The Story of O as Told by E”
O is nothing. O is not even a blow-up doll or a bundt cake. She very much wants you to put one of your possessions into one of her emptinesses....
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Composing in Fragments: Music in the Essay Films of Resnais and Godard
...or pictorial components of audio-visual work all too often comes at the expense of examining systems of representation and signification that are not based on purely linguistic or visual constructions....
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Inspiration/Expiration (Completion)
This text was co-written with an artificial intelligence (AI). This so-called author wrote a sentence, then the software continued, and so on, each influencing the other, completing each other. Another...
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Politics and Commonality of Sensation from a Reading of Merleau-Ponty
In this paper, we will not discuss revolutionary events in Europe or elsewhere. Rather, we will use the above event as a concrete exemplar—the symptom of a problem that enables...
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Assemblages and the Un-Timeliness of Democratic Commitments
...commitment can find, through the notion of assemblages, an ally, a space encouraging its manifestation and eluding capture by that which speaks in its name and allots it its place....
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The Commotion of Souls
...last time? No, he says, he didn’t. I cajole and bribe, and keep hoping that a day will come when he will remember how he felt about it last week....
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Rhizome of Boehme and Deleuze: Esoteric Precursors of the God of Complexity
...ontological project of explaining the workings of the chaotic cosmos. There IS religion in Deleuze, even God, but It comes as one of H.P. Lovecraft’s Outsider abominations, via witchcraft, trickery,...
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Come Rain or Shine
Lui: So, Mr. Scholar-Critic, you say you’ve lost interest in the usual questions of your discipline? Bravo, I’m all for being undisciplined—but tell me then, what are the questions that...
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Breathing with Mountains
...Compositions Pierre Jardin’s geologic aspirations began with a Composition of Place, a meditative technique deployed in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola stipulates that “for contemplation or meditation...
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Another Naming, a Living Animal: Blanchot’s Community
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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Commentary: The Le Pen Moment
...a guitar case containing a .22 rifle he had recently purchased. The day before, on the British neo-Nazi website Combat 18 (18 signifying AH, the first and eighth letters of...
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To Hate Shepherds: Letter to an American Friend about a Jules Verne Story (or Why Technological Objects Sometimes Complicate Our Lives)
Are there any shepherds left in America? I suppose you have replaced them with computers or robots. It’s less expensive and cleaner. Jules Verne would have liked to live in...
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The Politics of Literature
...or embodiments imply that you are taken into account as subjects sharing in a common world, making statements and not simply noise, discussing things located in a common world and...
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From Interests to Inter-esse: Jean-Luc Nancy on Deglobalization and Sovereignty
...hot issues are touched upon philosophically by Nancy’s thesis of “l’être-à-soi du peuple, son unité comme communauté ou comme corps social (…) comme inatteignable autant que nécessaire” (La démocratie à...
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The Immorality of Waste: Depression-Era Perspectives in the Digital Age
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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The Avenging Tree
...Burma—60,000 people killed by Cyclone Nargis—while mechanically nodding my head to modify the composition of the lilac bunches through a windowpane. It is impossible to take stock, to make sense...
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In media res : Interceptions of the Work of Art and the Political in Jean-Luc Nancy
...the philosophical and political reflections of Jean-Luc Nancy, especially his analysis of the disjointed articulation of the cum in community1 (community without communitarianism, exposed, shared, held in common) and his...
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Stoned Thinking: The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin
PETRIVERSE. Noun. 1). A world composed of rocks; e.g., a rock garden. 2). Words composed of rocks; i.e., verse written in and/or about stone. [Latin petra, rock; Old English vers,...
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The Politics of the Diagram as Graphic Narrative: Chris Ware and Chad McCail
...social norms,” thereby “help[ing] us to think about and envision a better world” (Worden, “Politics of Comics” 69-70). Critical treatment of the works of American comics creator Chris Ware (b....
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The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature (review)
...to its dictates the feeling that they belong to a community of the elect, a circle of solidarity . . . set apart from the common herd” (ibid.). Romance signifies...
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Touch in the Abstract
...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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Subway Poems
...suppose you do. Here, then, is what a subway poem consists of. A subway poem is a poem composed during a journey in the subway. There are as many lines...
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Math Anxiety: Making Room to Breathe
...positively rewarded as opportunities for learning; students compose questions instead of answers; students solve problems together rather than perform solo (Boaler). Return now to that opening scenario to watch it...
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A Fable of Film: Ranciere’s Anthony Mann
...a text coordinated with a picture. The combination was aimed to convey a lesson or to impose, often obliquely or through visual strategies, a reassuring mode of conduct.1 But in...
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A Diary, Some Poems (French irregular plural)
...diary, which is to say, ideally, an entire lifetime. In preparation for this long journey, he arms himself with a strange sort of compass, composed of the assemblage of a...
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Digitizing the Racialized Body or The Politics of Universal Address
...as social actors: as it becomes increasingly mediated by the communication networks of the new media, interpellation comes to materialize a “self that is no longer a subject since it...
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Kateb Yacine and the Ruins of the Present
...and effect between political struggle and literary style, two of his life-long commitments; it also suggests a relationship between history and the means of its expression. Still, the relationship between...
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Portrait of Guy Debord as a Young Libertine
...He cares little whether the common reader understands: “Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential,” he writes in Commentary on the Society of...
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After Derrida
...carrying De la grammatologie under my arm at the time. In his Comédie (1997), Bernard-Henri Lévy recounts a similar scene, which in his case took place a year earlier. For...
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A Vulnerable World: Heidegger on Humans and Finitude
The notion of vulnerability comes from the Late Latin vulnerabilis, derived from vulnerare “to wound,” which comes from vulner-, vulnus “wound.” As the Merriam-Webster dictionary suggests, it is probably akin...
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The Salvayre Method
...least spiritual, making it problematic for the critic, in that it cannot be reduced to a predetermined type, even though it borrows from nearly all registers of the comic. Salvayre’s...
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Teeth, Sticks, and Bricks: Calligraphy, Graphic Focalization, and Narrative Braiding in Eddie Campbell’s Alec
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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Theatricality and Cognitive Science: The Audience’s Perception and Reception
...personal beliefs, assumptions, inferences, and inner mental representations involved in the communicative event. Nevertheless, both share many common methods and basic views, and their specific concept of communication may help...
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Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, Postsustainability (review)
...relationship between expenditure and community in contemporary culture. How, in short, is our use of energy related to our ability to create and experience community? And how must our culture...
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Humanists, Scientists, and the Cultural Surplus
...difference is the issue of limits, which is not so much an issue as a maze of issues. My own epigraph resonates with this complexity. Since it comes early in...
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Death of a Discipline (review)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s book belongs to a short but dense tradition of retrospectives, proposals, and jeremiads on the topic of Comparative Literature, a discipline always in search of itself. Delivered...
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Strategies of the Political Entrepreneur
When Silvio Berlusconi won the elections in 1994, the international press unleashed an avalanche of not particularly well-meaning commentary, while the left and the democrats expressed their own quite understandable...
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Sic Transit Gloria Artis: “The End of Art” for Theodor Adorno and Guy Debord
It is now difficult to resist the impression that “the end of art”—so often and so noisily announced, and just as vociferously rejected, during the 1960s—has finally come about, albeit...
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The Narrativity of Post-Convergent Media: No Ghost Just a Shell and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “(ghost reader C.H.)”
While comics today have entered the world of what used to be called Western “high art,” manga—Japanese comics strongly associated with fan culture and genre—less publically breaks through into Anglo-European...
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Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle
...sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest...
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Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine (review)
...or film studies seem the most hesitant to give serious thought to Deleuze’s philosophical engagement of the cinema. D.N. Rodowick, author of the only comprehensive study devoted to these two...
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On the Parasitic Character of Wage Labor
...commedia dell’arte character masks; to comment on each of them individually would be not just tedious, but also futile. It seems more worthwhile to concentrate on a single aspect of...
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Telehaptic Sense-acts and Distancing Effects
...the apparatus of perception as the mediating component, which is pre- and trans-subjective. Through examples like Marnix de Nijs’s TAST and Michel van der Aa’s opera Upload, I investigate how...
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Saints, Scandals, and the Politics of Love: Simone Weil, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini
...philosopher, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) is a good example. In the years 1932 to 1933, she was connected to the dissident, Trotsky-leaning Communist Boris Souvarine and his Cercle communiste...