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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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Scott Robinson
Issue 170
...Theory for the World to Come (2019) and Ben Ware’s On Extinction (2024) all cover, at varying levels of insight, the strength of the apocalyptic narrative in modern culture. These...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mario Perniola, Olga Vasile
Issue 90
...in the various arts, works keep being produced that correspond to the features of contained power, classical rigor and unbounded certainty; unfortunately they come to the attention of experts and...
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Elvira Laskowski-Caujolle
Issue 96
...concentrates on the reciprocal relations between literature and mathematics. The group’s intention is to demonstrate the complementarity of these two modes of discourse in their work. One of the first...
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Stephen Adam Schwartz
Issue 91
...exactly what such specialists in fact do within the context of French studies is as yet undefined (Petrey 382). While this question continues to work itself out within hiring committees...
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Solange Guenoun, Richard Cassidy
Issue 103
...competence to speak from the point of view of psychoanalytic theory”? (L’inconscient esthétique, 9). Jacques Rancière, thus solicited in January 2000, responds by inventing a new formula of the unconscious....
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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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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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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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Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Gwenola Wagon
Issue 169
...of the lockdown in France during the first year of the pandemic, is composed of found footage and videoconference recordings. The two authors—or rather, the three figures involved in this...
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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...
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Paul Patton
Issue 134
...In these and other ways, these lectures function as a workshop in which analyses, interpretations and commentaries can be worked out, perhaps with a view to future, more formal publication....
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David Wills
Issue 134
...a writing that attempts to address what we call current events, particularly an academic writing—as distinct, for example, from journalistic writing—whose rhythms of composition and publication obey particular protocols and...
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John Champagne
Issue 134
...critical practice will be adequate to the political commitments that inspire it” (2-3). Wiegman’s book is an attempt to do so. The remainder of the book is divided into chapters...
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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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Marc Lapprand
Issue 96
...genre in its two complementary aspects: its mode of enunciation, which in effect “kills” the draft version, and the response it imposes upon the reader, making it almost impossible to...
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Greg Ellermann
Issue 163
...in digital photography and metrology–Brown demonstrates the necessity of “a mutual interruption of reason and experience” (31) for any theoretical or political practice that would avoid falling into ideological complacency....
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Suzanne Keen
Issue 124
...neocortex. In comics and graphic narratives, illustrations of faces and bodily postures may capitalize on the availability of visual coding for human emotions, eliciting readers’ feelings before they even read...
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David Herman
Issue 124
...I, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and underscore the superiority of the Soviet space program vis-à-vis its U.S. counterpart, Laika is rocketed into orbit with no...
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Éric Trudel, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 123
...to one of his recent titles, everything begins. Ça commence à Séoul (2007) is the result of a collaboration between Pierre Alferi and sculptor Jacques Julien. In this poetic and...
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Kate Lermitte Campbell
Issue 123
...by the philosopher Colin McGinn. My aim is to suggest that Alferi’s concentration on the visual is bound to his belief that actual experience cannot be compartmentalized into experience of...
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Christopher Roberts
Issue 123
...silence nor noise nor mere sound, music is sound marked, qualified, stereotyped, somehow distinctive, and thus communicative. Music research presents practical challenges as well. While a scholar discussing a painting...
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Kristien Justaert
Issue 121
The contemporary relation between theology and philosophy is a complicated one, but there is at least one strand in theology that has always explicitly used philosophical mediations to clarify and...
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Zahi Zalloua
Issue 120
...this kind of designation, while useful in pointing to a perceived shift in the concerns of interpretive communities, risks homogenizing the unruly voices responsible for such a turn. A genealogy...
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Warren Motte
Issue 96
...that word, a writer whose work comes to us fresh, each book a “new” book, all of them clearly the product of a literary imagination animated by a keen, ludic...