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Paolo Virno, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...commedia dell’arte character masks; to comment on each of them individually would be not just tedious, but also futile. It seems more worthwhile to concentrate on a single aspect of...
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Lipeng Liu
Issue 170
...demonstrate that Marx’s critique of political economy remains an indispensable tool for examining today’s capitalist structures. Berardi’s work can complement this perspective, contributing to a more comprehensive analysis of contemporary...
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Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
Issue 90
...sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest...
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Lisabeth During
Issue 141
...philosopher, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) is a good example. In the years 1932 to 1933, she was connected to the dissident, Trotsky-leaning Communist Boris Souvarine and his Cercle communiste...
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Ksenia Fedorova
Issue 169
...the apparatus of perception as the mediating component, which is pre- and trans-subjective. Through examples like Marnix de Nijs’s TAST and Michel van der Aa’s opera Upload, I investigate how...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 136
To date, David Mitchell’s fiction comprises six adventurously heterogeneous novels. Three are “cosmopolitan”1 in scope and structure, composed of sections that skip freely around in time and space: Ghostwritten (2001),...
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Darlene Pursley
Issue 91
...or film studies seem the most hesitant to give serious thought to Deleuze’s philosophical engagement of the cinema. D.N. Rodowick, author of the only comprehensive study devoted to these two...
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Chris Danta
Issue 117
...and compose songs, but who really just cheeps like the rest of her folk and whose destiny it is to “be forgotten like all her brothers” (1979: 145). Kafka completed...
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Michael Goddard, Franco Berardi
Issue 112
...strategies of the twentieth-century workers’ movement, to the horizons of democratic socialism or revolutionary communism? Nothing would be more inconclusive. The capitalism of mass networks that was fully implemented in...
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Matthew Elbert Rodriguez
Issue 166
A meal is often a gathering: a group of people coming together to share food. A meal is always a “gathering” in the sense that Bruno Latour uses the word...
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Willard Bohn
Issue 89
...rules. In the latter genre, texts and illustrations comment on each other repeatedly, creating a complex interartistic dialogue. In the former, verbal and visual elements conspire with each other to...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 147
...and Koen Vermeir. It ran for several years. The idea was to meet about once a month and invite scholars from various disciplines around a common machine, or at least...
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Elisabeth Weber
Issue 160
...assumed responsibility for the “inspirited” land. Kimmerer comments: Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They...
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Ralph James Savarese
Issue 159
This essay explores new technologies of communication, mischievously suggesting that an ordinary memoir, on some fundamental level, is no different from what occurred with a young woman in a persistent...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 93
...chapter, where he writes that the name of Maurice Blanchot can be found, whether on a commentary or a literary text, alongside nearly all of those proper names that have...
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Bruno Clement, David F. Bell
Issue 106
...bottom of the page), from this commentary in the form of an autobiography (or this autobiography in the form of a commentary—the whole question is there), what I retain is...
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Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
Focusing on visual and textual representations of squatting and women’s resistances against apartheid in the comic book series Crossroads (2014-2016), this article examines how graphic history may enable a more...
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Lionel Ruffel, Laura Balladur
Issue 101
Reading an interrogation, and to a greater extent analyzing it, puts one in a complex and ambiguous position. At any moment the researcher experiences the interrogation and thus may be...
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Temenuga Trifonova
Issue 104
...condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves. (ibid., 28) Deleuze’s task in the two volumes of Cinema is to demonstrate how...
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Noëlle Batt
Issue 160
...who would at last be wise enough to remain discreet, and refrain from any untimely interference with the life of the Earth. Works Cited Levertov, Denise. “The Breathing.” AllPoetry.com, .com/The-Breathing...
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Christophe Pradeau, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
...have in common the same professional obligation: they are required to invent ideas, or at the very least to displace old ideas, to present them and array them in an...
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Johanne Villeneuve, Will Bishop
Issue 138
...periodization). To write the history of any given medium and separate it into periods, one must also select the components “that gathered together as a way of giving ‘birth’ to...
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Peter Fenves
Issue 126
...this semantic phenomenon that it can be found even in the case of confluent rivers. Thus, the name Rhein, Anglicized as “Rhine,” derives from the same complex of words that...
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Adilifu Nama
Issue 160
...of wealth extraction enshrined the public ruin of Black bodies with public beatings to compel compliance, and later public lynchings to intimidate and psychologically terrorize Black folk into a forever...
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Kay Young, Jeffrey L. Saver
Issue 94/95
...out of the loneliness of being the solitary thinker who contemplates himself into the philosophical mood. Stories, it would seem, offer Aristotle comfort, company, or the sense that others somehow...
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Rocco Gangle
Issue 121
Two issues for Deleuze’s thought converge in its encounter with combinatorial divination: (1) the problem of a philosophical affirmation of the “whole of chance” or of “all chance in a...
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Eric Prieto
Issue 119
Jacques Réda is best known as a poet of place, remarkable precisely for his interest in the unremarkable and his compelling descriptions of nondescript places, the kind that most of...
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David F. Bell
Issue 160
...finger, rubbing it lovingly against the front gum of the mouth. Freud’s “Über Coca” looms ominously in the background, the work of a phase in Freud’s professional career complicated by...
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John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Ellen Spolsky
Issue 94/95
...disagreement between us boils down to her belief in the explanatory adequacy of a number of widely credited ideas that unrepentant and hard core believers in materialism and computationalism (like...
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André Habib
Issue 110
...1920s. When silent cinema lost its commercial vocation, it was taken in charge by newly created institutions in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York (all between 1934-1936), thereby displacing cinema...
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Ginette Michaud
Issue 106
...the philosophical and political reflections of Jean-Luc Nancy, especially his analysis of the disjointed articulation of the cum in community1 (community without communitarianism, exposed, shared, held in common) and his...
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Antonio Negri, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...the culture industry. European fascism and American commodification were treated as co-extensive. From then (the end of the Second World War) until today, that judgement on Western culture has been...
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Michael Vaughan
Issue 114
...and biological processes. In the late nineteenth century, the sciences of consciousness and of life were dominated by a commitment to materialism and mechanism that meant they struggled to conceptualize...
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Abigail Culpepper
Issue 166
We cannot see the forest for the trees. It is no mistake that one of the most common English expressions featuring trees is about myopia. So invested in seeing trees...
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Marie-Laure Ryan
Issue 89
Few of us have actually donned a HMD (head-mounted display) and DGs (data-gloves), and entered a computer-generated, three-dimensional landscape in which all of our wishes can be fulfilled: wishes such...
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Zakir Paul
Issue 155
...So how, if at all, does Blanchot speak to the present? Responses to this question are quickly complicated by the rich and varied reception of his work. A lifelong friend...
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Anthony Uhlmann
Issue 104
Working from a detailed diary Beckett wrote of his thoughts on painting while travelling through Germany and visiting art galleries before World War II, and directed by comments made by...
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Andrew Elfenbein
Issue 159
The attractiveness of life writings stems from its promise of exceptional intimacy with a writer. Yet that intimacy can come at a cost, especially in relation to writers from marginalized...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 156
...and studying French and/or American poetry of the mid- to late twentieth century was keenly aware of the fruitfulness of the exchanges between French and American poets. This book archives,...
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Issue 154
What comes after the language model of literary history? This essay considers that question by turning to works of contemporary fiction that operate at the edges of our most dominant...
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Andrey Gordienko
Issue 150
This essay approaches Alain Badiou’s theoretical production during the period of militant fury commenced by May ‘68 in terms of his conflicted relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Badiou’s...
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Robert Doran, René Girard
Issue 115
...Girard: I think that your statement is right. And I would like to begin by making a few comments on that very point. It seemed impossible at the time, but...
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Michael Krimper
Issue 144
In 1956, Emmanuel Levinas devoted a provocative essay to the writing of his friend and companion in thought, Maurice Blanchot, entitled “The Poet’s Vision.” Therein, Levinas closely examines Blanchot’s meditations...
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Liran Razinsky
Issue 144
This paper explores the autobiographical desire for a complete, comprehensive recording of a life. As long ago as 1762, Diderot wrote in a letter to his love, Sophie Volland: How...
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Robert Sinnerbrink, Lisa Trahair
Issue 141
...that intersect with, without being reducible to, philosophical inquiry. Inspired by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell, many theorists are now engaged in what has come to be...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 140
...more likely, he just wants to make sure that he will be able to read the room temperature next time he comes. He is afraid to be too hot. He...
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Ken Rinaldo
Issue 169
This article examines cognition, identity, and agency as distributed across biological, microbial, and algorithmic systems. It challenges the notion of the individual by framing humans as holobionts—complex assemblages of human...
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Jean-Louis Deotte, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 103
...chose to teach and engage in activism at Vincennes, the recruitment was, according to F. Chatelet, politico-philosophical. Each non-Communist Marxist group sent their representatives: the Althusser-Maoists from the Ecole Normale...
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Mario Perniola, Deborah Amberson
Issue 106
...him in the Rivista di Estetica (1966 no. 3), in an article entitled “Grammatology and Aesthetics.” De la Grammatologie would come out the following year, but I had read and...
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Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François
Issue 166
...figure of Joséphin in Devi’s 2003 poetic novella, La vie de Joséphin le fou, with Aimé Césaire’s “Le cri,” and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Lionnet’s comparative analysis reveals...