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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...