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Małgorzata Sugiera
Issue 98/99
...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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Stuart Kendall
Issue 116
...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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H. Porter Abbott
Issue 94/95
...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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Robert Elbaz
Issue 89
Between Writing and Memory Postmodernist conceptions of literature have laid claim to the inability of the text to come to terms with its own narrative objects. Thus, the text has...
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Roland Arthur Greene
Issue 109
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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M. Lazzarato, Timothy S. Murphy
Issue 112
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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Anselm Jappe, Donald Nicholson-Smith
Issue 90
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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Jean-Jacques Thomas
Issue 124
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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Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
Issue 90
...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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Darlene Pursley
Issue 91
...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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Paolo Virno, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...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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Ksenia Fedorova
Issue 169
...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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Lisabeth During
Issue 141
...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...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 136
To date, David Mitchell’s fiction comprises six adventurously heterogeneous novels. Three are “cosmopolitan”1 in scope and structure, composed of sections that skip freely around in time and space: Ghostwritten (2001),...
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Chris Danta
Issue 117
...and compose songs, but who really just cheeps like the rest of her folk and whose destiny it is to “be forgotten like all her brothers” (1979: 145). Kafka completed...
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Michael Goddard, Franco Berardi
Issue 112
...strategies of the twentieth-century workers’ movement, to the horizons of democratic socialism or revolutionary communism? Nothing would be more inconclusive. The capitalism of mass networks that was fully implemented in...
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Matthew Elbert Rodriguez
Issue 166
A meal is often a gathering: a group of people coming together to share food. A meal is always a “gathering” in the sense that Bruno Latour uses the word...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 93
...chapter, where he writes that the name of Maurice Blanchot can be found, whether on a commentary or a literary text, alongside nearly all of those proper names that have...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 147
...and Koen Vermeir. It ran for several years. The idea was to meet about once a month and invite scholars from various disciplines around a common machine, or at least...
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Temenuga Trifonova
Issue 104
...condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves. (ibid., 28) Deleuze’s task in the two volumes of Cinema is to demonstrate how...
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Elisabeth Weber
Issue 160
...assumed responsibility for the “inspirited” land. Kimmerer comments: Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They...
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Ralph James Savarese
Issue 159
This essay explores new technologies of communication, mischievously suggesting that an ordinary memoir, on some fundamental level, is no different from what occurred with a young woman in a persistent...
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Christophe Pradeau, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
...have in common the same professional obligation: they are required to invent ideas, or at the very least to displace old ideas, to present them and array them in an...
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Marie-Laure Ryan
Issue 89
Few of us have actually donned a HMD (head-mounted display) and DGs (data-gloves), and entered a computer-generated, three-dimensional landscape in which all of our wishes can be fulfilled: wishes such...
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Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
Focusing on visual and textual representations of squatting and women’s resistances against apartheid in the comic book series Crossroads (2014-2016), this article examines how graphic history may enable a more...
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Bruno Clement, David F. Bell
Issue 106
...bottom of the page), from this commentary in the form of an autobiography (or this autobiography in the form of a commentary—the whole question is there), what I retain is...
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Noëlle Batt
Issue 160
...who would at last be wise enough to remain discreet, and refrain from any untimely interference with the life of the Earth. Works Cited Levertov, Denise. “The Breathing.” AllPoetry.com, .com/The-Breathing...
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Johanne Villeneuve, Will Bishop
Issue 138
...periodization). To write the history of any given medium and separate it into periods, one must also select the components “that gathered together as a way of giving ‘birth’ to...
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Peter Fenves
Issue 126
...this semantic phenomenon that it can be found even in the case of confluent rivers. Thus, the name Rhein, Anglicized as “Rhine,” derives from the same complex of words that...
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Adilifu Nama
Issue 160
...of wealth extraction enshrined the public ruin of Black bodies with public beatings to compel compliance, and later public lynchings to intimidate and psychologically terrorize Black folk into a forever...
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Rocco Gangle
Issue 121
Two issues for Deleuze’s thought converge in its encounter with combinatorial divination: (1) the problem of a philosophical affirmation of the “whole of chance” or of “all chance in a...
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Eric Prieto
Issue 119
Jacques Réda is best known as a poet of place, remarkable precisely for his interest in the unremarkable and his compelling descriptions of nondescript places, the kind that most of...
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André Habib
Issue 110
...1920s. When silent cinema lost its commercial vocation, it was taken in charge by newly created institutions in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York (all between 1934-1936), thereby displacing cinema...
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David F. Bell
Issue 160
...finger, rubbing it lovingly against the front gum of the mouth. Freud’s “Über Coca” looms ominously in the background, the work of a phase in Freud’s professional career complicated by...
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Kay Young, Jeffrey L. Saver
Issue 94/95
...out of the loneliness of being the solitary thinker who contemplates himself into the philosophical mood. Stories, it would seem, offer Aristotle comfort, company, or the sense that others somehow...
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John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Ellen Spolsky
Issue 94/95
...disagreement between us boils down to her belief in the explanatory adequacy of a number of widely credited ideas that unrepentant and hard core believers in materialism and computationalism (like...
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Willard Bohn
Issue 89
...rules. In the latter genre, texts and illustrations comment on each other repeatedly, creating a complex interartistic dialogue. In the former, verbal and visual elements conspire with each other to...
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Ginette Michaud
Issue 106
...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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Antonio Negri, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...the culture industry. European fascism and American commodification were treated as co-extensive. From then (the end of the Second World War) until today, that judgement on Western culture has been...
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Lionel Ruffel, Laura Balladur
Issue 101
Reading an interrogation, and to a greater extent analyzing it, puts one in a complex and ambiguous position. At any moment the researcher experiences the interrogation and thus may be...
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Michael Vaughan
Issue 114
...and biological processes. In the late nineteenth century, the sciences of consciousness and of life were dominated by a commitment to materialism and mechanism that meant they struggled to conceptualize...
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Abigail Culpepper
Issue 166
We cannot see the forest for the trees. It is no mistake that one of the most common English expressions featuring trees is about myopia. So invested in seeing trees...
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Zakir Paul
Issue 155
...So how, if at all, does Blanchot speak to the present? Responses to this question are quickly complicated by the rich and varied reception of his work. A lifelong friend...
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Mario Perniola, Deborah Amberson
Issue 106
...him in the Rivista di Estetica (1966 no. 3), in an article entitled “Grammatology and Aesthetics.” De la Grammatologie would come out the following year, but I had read and...
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Kat Matson
Issue 169
In The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos, Laura U. Marks presents a compelling way of understanding how we experience the modern world. She calls this understanding a cosmology,...
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Andrew Elfenbein
Issue 159
The attractiveness of life writings stems from its promise of exceptional intimacy with a writer. Yet that intimacy can come at a cost, especially in relation to writers from marginalized...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 156
...and studying French and/or American poetry of the mid- to late twentieth century was keenly aware of the fruitfulness of the exchanges between French and American poets. This book archives,...
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Issue 154
What comes after the language model of literary history? This essay considers that question by turning to works of contemporary fiction that operate at the edges of our most dominant...
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Andrey Gordienko
Issue 150
This essay approaches Alain Badiou’s theoretical production during the period of militant fury commenced by May ‘68 in terms of his conflicted relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Badiou’s...
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Robert Doran, René Girard
Issue 115
...Girard: I think that your statement is right. And I would like to begin by making a few comments on that very point. It seemed impossible at the time, but...