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Warren Motte
Issue 91
...poetry may help us come to know the world of phenomena, and that it may in some cases articulate that knowledge in a manner that might be called “scientific.” This...
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Gregg Lambert
Issue 106
...loud display; to hold in confidence and completely away from the “public” the moments (however brief and, no doubt, inconsequential) I may have shared with one who is now departed...
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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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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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Katharine Conley
Issue 96
...of theater and photography to review surrealism’s multicultural aspects, showing how they are “fondamentaux pour une compréhension de l’altérité dans le surréalisme” (179). Antle studies how those surrealists who worked...
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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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Daveeda Goldberg
Issue 150
...such things by a self-reflective and self-parodic Jewish comedy writer. So, it’s a question that antisemites may imagine Jews to ask, and one that Jews may imagine antisemites imagine Jews...
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Matthew B. Smith
Issue 150
...of war poetry and troubling the way literary authority is ascribed. As such, this work is an invaluable contribution to scholars and students of comparative literature, poetry and cultural studies....
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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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Warren Motte
Issue 89
...right of every academic to whine. Moreover, it is a right we must also accord to Bénabou himself as we try to come to some sort of terms with his...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 106
...of the Communist Manifesto) and the ghosts of Marx (broadly, what Derrida means by the “legacy” of Marx, as the constant returns of a kind of spectre in the midst...
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Richard Joseph Golsan
Issue 91
...final judgment on Vichy complicity in the Final Solution, the Papon trial quickly overflowed the historical, judicial, and temporal banks intended to channel its progress to become a seemingly endless...
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Mitchell Kerley
Issue 145
Two recent texts join the field of research on the Oulipo writing group. The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement is a slim volume, mostly comprising two...
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Eran Dorfman
Issue 144
...said, ‘you shall examine’” (320d). So Epimetheus distributed to each animal qualities according to a principle of equilibrium and compensation, each becoming either swift or strong, skilled or large, and...
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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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Debarati Sanyal
Issue 101
...of the most salient developments in twentieth-century literary and cultural theory. If Baudelaire is fertile ground for the development of theory, however, theory rarely contains the complex and contradictory force...
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Elisabeth Weber
Issue 106
...and commentator on issues such as South Africa’s Apartheid, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the bloody civil war in his native Algeria, human rights abuses, French immigration laws, the death penalty, and...
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Elizabeth A. Wilson
Issue 91
...no published replication of LeVay’s key findings. There has, however, been much in the way of further interpretation of his report by academic, scientific, political, legal and media commentators. 1...
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David H. Fleming
Issue 141
...and the motivation behind his participation in the attacks. The mosaic film thus builds up a complicated three-dimensional story that offers viewers an atypical glimpse into and behind this phenomenon....
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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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David F. Bell
Issue 140
...encounter with Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster in the entrance foyer ensued, during which salient details of the Muppet’s appearance were described down to the smell of his constant companion, a...
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Natalia Fedorova
Issue 169
...explore the aesthetic conditions and affordances of pandemic isolation, and to historically contextualize the specific type of virtual presence this isolation suggested. The notion of telematic communication — transmitting messages...
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Marcel Hénaff, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 100
...He must learn to narrow his scope, and to accept a certain arbitrariness. And he does so—”that one there!” he exclaims. Likewise, observers of animal communities tell us that when...
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Andrew Elbon
Issue 89
...Mallarmé’s rendition of this occasion: Cent affiches s’assimilant l’or incompris des jours, trahison de la lettre, ont fui, comme à tous confins de la ville, mes yeux au ras de...
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David Carroll
Issue 106
...is a quotation. To which I will add only one comment: “Me neither.” But in spite of this incapacity, I will nevertheless still try to tell a few stories and...
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Philip Kuberski
Issue 91
...the non-physical, or how does the non-physical lead to the physical? Since by definition the physical and the non-physical have no means of communication or relationship, we have a problem....
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Christopher Norris
Issue 163
...here as a kind of performative commentary on the way that thematic concerns or intentions may get lost once the AI software really starts doing its wondrous, intriguing, or humanly...
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Matthew Mullins
Issue 138
...disrupting and almost asserting themselves as components of the title. The effect is a fitting first impression for an eminently readable book that throws philosophy off balance and then tries...
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Barbara Agnese, Claire-Anne Gormally
Issue 137
...last century, embodies a polyphonic, complex cognitive enterprise which includes both original uses of language and sophisticated patterns of moral reflection. Modern literature thus represents a new model of paradigmatic...
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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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Philippe Despoix
Issue 137
...schism between the natural sciences and the humanities—a position whose horizon intersects Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms, Max Weber’s comparative sociology of religion, and the perspectives opened by American...
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Clément de Gaulejac, Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt
Issue 137
...one of my films.” – Raoul Ruiz Definition In French, the expression “téléphone arabe” has two meanings: 1) An oral communication and, furthermore, a rumor or unreliable information; 2) A...
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Milisava Petković
Issue 137
...and comments on the political aims she has formed through her own life experience as a dancer, dance instructor, academic researcher and author, feminist, woman, mother, and English-speaking Pākehā, the...
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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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Aletha D. Stahl
Issue 90
...cultural ‘purity’” (106). Rather, because the authors originate from the range of regions, cities, islands, and languages that make up the Caribbean, their perspectives combine to “represent our current moment...
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Asger Jorn, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 90
...of Godwin, who was an inspiration to Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, William Blake, and many others, just as Proudhon is the inspiration for Courbet’s painting. From this group comes a large...
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Erick Heroux
Issue 96
...of the contents. Finally, even for the material that is available elsewhere, one would have to search far and wide to find so many of Foucault’s commentaries gathered in a...
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Marcel Benabou, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 100
...World, have almost never ceased to fascinate me since. These are questions of language, of course. Language grasped in its amazing complexity. And first of all in its materiality: the...
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Michele Garneau, James Cisneros
Issue 103
...cognitive psychology and, most recently, narratology and textual analysis – all such attempts to organize a “cinematic system” have been powerless to grasp the film object in all its complexity....
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David Herman
Issue 103
...not just language-based “puzzles” from which (according to the Wittgenstein of this period) it is the sole task of philosophy to help extricate us? How could two former compatriots, both...
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Jean Pierre Dupuy
Issue 115
...the field of the social sciences—and even the common sense attitude—urges us to account or give reasons for the actions of the other, but also for our own actions, by...
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Melanie White
Issue 134
...non-human animals the ability to react, but not respond. And yet, a closer inspection of Durkheim’s theory of society complicates any straightforward application of Derrida’s deconstruction of the human-animal opposition....
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Matthew Chrulew
Issue 134
...Derrida’s argument are as significant as its history is burdened. It returns to elements of the longstanding polemic between Foucault and Derrida over madness and history, complicated here by Derrida’s...