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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...
Article
Paul Sheehan
Issue 117
...community of dwarves in an institution on the island, and the insurrection they launch against their keepers. The revolt is by turns, farcical, incompetent and destructive – setting fire to...
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Simon Lumsden
Issue 117
...count as a reason it must be able to be recognized as a reason by our interlocutors and be something that we can individually and collectively commit ourselves to—that is,...
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Catherine Bates
Issue 116
...I tried to take it all in and to be as comprehensive as possible, close reading letters and poring over drafts. When running out of time, I developed a more...
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Peter Boxall
Issue 116
...distribution of resources—commodities as well as capital and mineral reserve—has traditionally been understood as an unequal sharing, as balancing the wealth of the few against the poverty of the many,...
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Issue 116
...Western directors. The twofold concentration on Wong’s Hong Kong origins on the one hand, and his compatibility with Western cinema on the other, can be explained through Wong’s almost unique...
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Michel Serres, Judith Adler
Issue 116
...the invading brambles. Just as the faces and hands of old men become wrinkled, so the rooftop and walls of the house come to bear the marks of bad weather...
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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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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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Steven Winspur
Issue 101
Philippe Met’s study begins with an important insight into twentieth-century poetry: namely, that many post-surrealist French poets did not compose works around images but instead around what Michel Leiris called...
Article
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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Stamos Metzidakis
Issue 101
...obscure, French poetry. Their book represents an extraordinary case in which a combination of old and new materials far exceeds the mere sum of its constitutive parts. Indeed, with the...
Article
Peter De Bolla
Issue 109
...June 5, 1756, the day Charles Viner died, and the way of knowing that enables the entire architectonics of modernity is what we have come to recognize as the law....
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Ross Benjamin, Heesok Chang
Issue 110
...co-signed by Derrida, the publication signaled a startling gesture of unity between two philosophers who had, to say the least, failed to find common ground for the past several decades....
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Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Issue 110
In this complex analysis of the genre of the fragment, Camelia Elias shows us that while there is no such thing as a fragment in the singular, there are always...
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
Issue 110
...are taken to indicate a tendency toward a sense of failure or loss in the self. Thereafter, the Doppelgänger has been commonly viewed as an aberration, the stencil of a...
Article
Inge-Birgitte Siegumfeldt
Issue 106
...These secrets revolve around circumcision, but “circumcision” with the peculiarly Derridean spin that combines “cutting” with “cutting to,” with special reference to language as contingent on scission. And Derrida has...
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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...
Article
Suzanne Guerlac
Issue 112
...a first, deceptively simple gesture, Bell turns to the realist novel as a reflection of the real, asking it to provide “real insight into the way speed and communication were...
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Julian Wolfreys
Issue 96
...in Specters of Marx and Jabès’s thinking on a “Jewish community of limits.” While Jabès has gone relatively unremarked, except among French scholars in the Anglo-American academy, Derrida’s suggestive figure...
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Issue 169
...movements, and local political contingencies are enmeshed in the sensorial production of charismatic communities. With deft detail, de Abreu pays close attention to how kinetic worship, materiality, and media practices...
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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...
Article
Toby Miller
Issue 115
...downtown lofts and polymorphous pleasure; words dropped from a laptop while hurtling across the so-called fly-over states? No. The quotation comes from a true son of the Midwest, Garrison Keillor...
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Robert Doran
Issue 115
...cries out for interpretation, explanation, or reckoning, cultural theory brings us back to integrated modes of thought that have by and large been lost with the increased specialization and compartmentalization...
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David R. Ellison
Issue 115
...might call this territory the domain of the ethical – a domain in which the central notions are those of community, dialogue, responsibility, and the sharing of strong feelings, including...
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John E. Drabinski
Issue 115
Is it possible to conceive a language of absolute difference? Or, is absolute difference always complicated by the identity-function of language? These questions have occupied French philosophy at least since...
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Jean-Didier Wagneur, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 96
...a single person. (La Scène usurpée, 37) “La République roman” is the name of a cycle of novels undertaken by Jacques Jouet. To date, this project is composed of the...
Article
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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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...
Article
Jennifer Gutman
Issue 166
...bowl of two gently sloping hills, its wide, generous branches fan out across a shifting canvas of open sky. In addition to its striking composition, the lone giant seemed to...
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Christy Wampole
Issue 166
...remain buried, like the unseen part of the plant. Contemporary conditions of globalization have complicated these meanings of the root metaphor. More and more frequently, locating one’s deepest ancestors—and even...
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Éric Trudel
Issue 166
...inseparable from its opposite: against. To head toward a tree would thus mean to come up against its unintelligible presence, its silence, at the risk of finding oneself, in turn,...
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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 166
...consciously on this ‘illusory writing’ and noticed that when it tended to combine rhythmically with itself, a second illusion was born: the image of something vague, often biological and naturalistic....
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Morgane Cadieu
Issue 166
...Darmon’s Socialization. Far from being green ornaments, these editorial choices point to a trend in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives of emancipation. Texts are developing what could be called an...
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Florian Cord
Issue 164
...(Jackson), combining a focus on pain and possibility, destruction and creativity. Consisting of a set of strategies whereby subjects salvage possibilities and sustenance from the world, repair emerges expressly in...
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Pierpaolo Antonello, Olga Vasile
Issue 90
...turning Debord and SI into a spectacular commodity.2 This volume adds new voices to the work of analysis, reconstruction, and rethinking of a particularly significant period in the cultural and...