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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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André Habib
Issue 137
The common denominator of any translation is delay: this delay is a matter of time and space, a temporal displacement (which is one of the ways of defining “translation”), a...
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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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Matthew Chrulew
Issue 134
Jacques Derrida’s lectures on La bête et le souverain, given at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales from 2001-2003, comprise a remarkable set of reflections on sovereignty and...
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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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Allyson Field
Issue 90
...their artistic and political endeavors, reaching its apex during the events of May 1968. Détournement comprises both an aesthetic and political critique. The technique is defined by Guy Debord 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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Heidi Peeters
Issue 123
The days of poetry seem to be coming to an end. Many theorists have been predicting the fall of the verbal regime and many theoretical volumes hailing the new visual...
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Jan Baetens, Douglas Basford
Issue 123
...possible to tell a story, even to recount oneself, and “outdated notions” of personhood, chronology, mankind, narrative, psychology, history, etc. (Robbe-Grille, 1963) are quietly coming to the fore again. This...
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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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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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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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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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Marco Caracciolo
Issue 168
...in which contemporary fiction imagines and negotiates the ambiguity of digital play. Building on Brian Sutton-Smith’s play theory, I examine how the literary imagination invokes, combines, and opposes many of...
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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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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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Kevin Bell
Issue 155
...1973 film Ganja & Hess. Conceived by its corporate producers as a “blaxploitation/vampire” vehicle, it becomes instead Gunn’s unofficial Cannes triumph; it is, for one venerated critic, “the most complicated,...
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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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Gai Farchi
Issue 170
...its identity, contemporary capitalism produces commodities that are obsolete from the outset, prone to be replaced by new ones.1 This devaluation of the old introduces new ways of addressing temporality...
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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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Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Issue 132
At least since the 1970s, vulnerability has emerged as a significant area of research in international social sciences. Combining sociology, studies of climate change, politics, and cultural geography, these interdisciplinary...
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Joanne Faulkner
Issue 132
...complexly overdetermined by a variety of adult exigencies, desires, and crises which, once exposed to scrutiny, may become less self-evident—even questionable. As a virtue, innocence is not cultivated through self-discipline,...
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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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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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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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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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Taylor Schey
Issue 130
But just what sort of Oedipus complex does Freud depict in Totem and Taboo? His entire account of the murder and the history it unfolds concerns the actions of a...
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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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Judd D. Hubert
Issue 130
This issue of Mélusine pursues the research initiated in 1982 on the surrealist book, without giving the last word on such a complex subject. Demonstrating erudition worthy of La Revue...
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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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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 104
...a comparison of Beckett’s theatre to that of Marguerite Duras, as a mise en relief for Beckett’s particular type of théâtre-récit. The analysis of both authors’ contrasting uses of narrative...
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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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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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Ursula K. Heise
Issue 127
...them public. The slogan “Think globally, act locally,” coined by René Dubos in 1970, similarly summed up environmentalists’ commitment to a vision of planetary connectedness, as did Kenneth Boulding and...
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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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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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Rita Charon
Issue 159
Life-writing combines, collates, or colludes many lives into one text. No work of fiction, biography, poetry, drama, memoir, journaling, blogging, or autobiography—all of them life-writing—does not do this, either blatantly...
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Ellen Spolsky
Issue 159
...her life by writing it. She turns a traditional genre of a young person’s coming of age into a neurologically realistic portrait of the growth of an artist by multiplying...
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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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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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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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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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Glenn W. Fetzer
Issue 101
...art that succeeds in “unsettling” the boundaries between them that we have come to expect. Invoking poststructuralist critics as theoretical touchstones, [End Page 121] the author inscribes her study in...
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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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Michael Naas
Issue 106
...letting this language resonate within me, this French language that I will never feel absolutely at home in but that I nevertheless have come to love—and perhaps because of its...
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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...