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Introduction: Translation Matters

Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, André Habib
Issue 137
...in the transnational circulation of ideas and cultural productions in a global cultural context. Yet translation – and the untranslatability it elicits and sometimes implies – has come to embody...
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Introduction

Giuseppina Mecchia, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...departing significantly from the state-centered and reformist policies of the Italian Communist Party (Partito comunista italiano, PCI). The theoretical investigations of the workerists were rooted in an intense practical engagement...
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Zoopolitics

Patrick Llored, Matthew Chrulew, Brett Buchanan
Issue 134
...heart, beckoning toward the establishment and institution of a border between the two, but rather one that comes to blur, to rework and accordingly to complexify the limits between them....
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Authorial Shadows in Marcel Benabou

Catherine Lorente, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 89
...Lautréamont and the Surrealists and all of this century’s authors, artists and composers who have made recycling an important component of their practice. The past—literary and personal, historical and memorial—severely...
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Painting’s Figural Territory: An Impossible Refrain

Christopher Gontar
Issue 121
...“supersensible” or thing-in-itself. In a section of his Third Critique, Kant grappled with taste as a judgment that is subjective yet relies on a sensus communis. This gives rise to...
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How to Live with Roland Barthes

Patrick ffrench
Issue 120
...will in time attain completion. Barthes values the proleptic, or dilatory gesture over the completed whole; the statement “Plus tard…,” moreover, works in secret as a denunciation of the “monstre...
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Of Journals and Eternity

Sydney Levy, Michel Pierssens
Issue 100
The journal whose 100th issue we celebrate here has little in common with what it was when we launched issue “numéro zéro” in 1971. Not only because its editors, format,...
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Cultures du Surrealisme (review)

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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Sade Before the Law

Eric Méchoulan, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 109
...complains during more than 28 years of incarceration that he is an (almost) virtuous victim of immoral persecutors, and the Sade of libertine novels, who vaunts immorality and praises torturers....
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Varieties of Nothing

John Brenkman
Issue 155
...with Nietzsche in the antifoundationalist, postmodern philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, and with Pascal in the reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, occasions pertinent comparisons to Blanchot as a reader of Pascal...
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Going Parallel

Brian Rotman
Issue 91
...DNA? Has evolution selected starlings that naturally flock? Apparently, none of the above. The effect–less complex in origin and perhaps more profound in implication than any of these–is the result...
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Guy Debord and the Problem of the Accursed

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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Wooden Dice Without Numbers

Perwana Nazif
Issue 166
...movement then becomes fingers gesturing downwards, in a sort of ecstatic frenzy, before resuming the rolling. The camera closes in on him. Meanwhile, the older man comes into the frame...
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Encounters with Impact

Wendelin Werner, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 130
One of the recurring themes in discussions among mathematicians, whether in informal lunch hour talks or in more formal committees, is what might be called “simplistic impact-bashing.” We are more...
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Love in the Time of Capital

Mark Steven
Issue 147
...cinema has evolved. These two theses are explored concurrently as they advance through the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century, evolving a visual language of what Badiou calls “minimal communism.”...
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1, 2, 3, 4 Futures—Ludic Forms in Narrative Films

Henriette Heidbrink
Issue 130
...rely on well-known narrative schemata, and on the other hand they comprise something that is actually impossible: alternative futures. One central thesis raised by spokespersons of the forking-path-debate claims that,...
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Rules for the Incommensurable

Christian Marazzi, Giuseppina Mecchia
Issue 112
...in its full gravity and complexity. The recession of the early 1990s simply tore away the “veil of ignorance” that allowed us to postpone addressing the new socio-economic paradigm politically....
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A Globe of One’s Own: In Praise of the Flat Earth

Claire Colebrook
Issue 127
...in any ethical theory, then this virtual universalism would always struggle alongside moral valorizations of specified communities. How do we, from the particular world we inhabit, begin to think of...
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Lire Patrick Modiano, and: Lectures de Modiano (review)

Vanessa Doriott Anderson
Issue 127
...Magazine littéraire dossier devoted to Modiano, Maryline Heck, the dossier’s editor, announced the author’s “entry into the pantheon of French academia” while adding that “it seems the time has come...
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La carte et le territoire (review)

Louis Betty
Issue 127
La carte et le territoire, winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt and Michel Houellebecq’s first novel since La possibilité d’une île in 2005, may be the author’s most compelling work...
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Introduction: Telehaptics

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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Derrida: Notes Toward a Memoir

Jeffrey Mehlman
Issue 106
...of feeling” comes to mind). And for years, I had found myself subliminally noting deconstructive touches on the op. ed. page of one prominent newspaper or another, trying to imagine...
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The Inappropriable: On Oikology, Care, and Writing Life

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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Shakespeare’s Spam Poethics

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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Digression in Mallarme

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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Introduction: On the Edges of Jacques Ranciere

Eric Méchoulan
Issue 103
...remote position. Coming from an Althusserian position, after years of archival work on nineteenth-century workers’ writings, Jacques Rancière began to wander between social history and the poetics of historiography, between...
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Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations

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...