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Jan Söffner
Issue 160
...(one day) perhaps resonate in the theory of freedom, too. The freedom to breathe–unlike the freedom theorized in philosophic and political theory–indeed has little to do with “free will” (i.e.,...
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Iwona Janicka
Issue 164
...48] is the diametrical opposite of good science, which equates, ultimately, to creating a common world with an animal (“The Body” 124). Due to our different biosemiotic makeup, this common...
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Florian Cord
Issue 164
...absolute distinctiveness of contemporary theoretical approaches and a significant complication of the common notion of earlier theorizing as “nothing-but-critique” (Haraway, Staying 178n32). If talk of a broad reparative ‘turn’ is...
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Kieran M. Murphy
Issue 160
...Guardian, 8 June 2020, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/i-cant-breathe-george-floyds-words-reverberate-oppression. Accessed 10 July 2021. Rediker, Marcus. Foreword. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott, 2018, pp....
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Françoise Vergès
Issue 160
...Joyce. “What is the Environmental Impact Of The Mining Industry?” WorldAtlas, 25 April 2017, www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-mining-industry.html Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of spirit.” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/spirit. Kilomba, Grada. “The Mask: Remembering Slavery,...
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Tim Ingold
Issue 160
...or closed. But for a folded configuration like the body, this binary, on-off or open-closed option is not available. It can never be completely open or completely closed. It is...
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Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 160
...of Paris near the Bois de Vincennes, the Center (later named L’Université de Paris VIII–Vincennes), sought to provide emphatically egalitarian modes of learning that were open to all. The ramshackle...
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Paul Youngquist
Issue 160
...Afflicted with perfect pitch, Newborn couldn’t follow their cries and whispers. They flew free from the comforting staff. Still you feel them, hear their immeasurable sound. Don Cherry: “I’ve always...
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Églantine Colon
Issue 160
...regular basis, falling in and out of love with the same wrong comrades, over and over again, and always out of sync. The loving gestures we composed were barely legible...
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Marielle Macé, Alexis Stanley
Issue 160
...not exactly a responsibility, but something comparable to a compromise, commitment, or promise. It is a familiar tragedy that we breathe in a suffocating world and share in air polluted...
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Antoine Volodine, Ben Streeter
Issue 160
...l’horreur de la nuit continuait. Il courait au hasard, comme s’il était poursuivi ou comme s’il avait commis un crime. Les repères manquaient, rien n’était visible, et il comptait sur...
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Steven Connor
Issue 160
...release, of a piece with open windows and unbounded spaces. Human beings have brewed up fantasies for centuries of more complete modes of breathing that would overcome the constriction represented...
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Françoise Lionnet
Issue 160
...and with the community that inhabits it. Going out of the mother, I come into the air, I enter into the world, and into the community of living beings. (312)...
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Orchid Tierney
Issue 160
...compares to other years,” National Geographic, Aug. 29, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-fires-cause-deforestation-graphic-map. Accessed March 29, 2021. Choy, Timothy K. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. Duke University Press,...
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Peter Szendy
Issue 160
...“inhabitable” (128, 153). In his latest book on the concept of home, “breath” (respiro) is strikingly torn between designating the ontological structure of general exchangeability that Coccia now conceptualizes as...
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John Durham Peters
Issue 160
...invisible.) Breathing is a good test case for the notion, common to many variants of critical theory, that nature for humans is always second nature: what would it mean to...
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Évelyne Trouillot
Issue 160
...morning, they entered the yard making a great din. The rooster fled beating its wings. Papa had guessed they might come again. Ever since they had come the week before...
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Tim Ingold
Issue 163
...“I-walk-therefore-I-am” Grassendi, and the eminently sensible, country-walk loving Beauvoir, come out looking remotely tolerable. Reading this book, I could not help wondering how men and women who have reflected at...
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Karin Kukkonen
Issue 124
Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics...
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Steve Mentz
Issue 160
...role himself.6363On Winton’s solitary and somewhat macho persona in contemporary Australia, see this profile in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/books/tim-winton-shepherds-hut-australia-novelist.html. Accessed 8 June 2021. The last counter-heroic element in Breath...
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Valerie Allen, Todd Stambaugh
Issue 160
...positively rewarded as opportunities for learning; students compose questions instead of answers; students solve problems together rather than perform solo (Boaler). Return now to that opening scenario to watch it...
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Joshua Delpech-Ramey
Issue 122
...those of a modern comedy. Beckett—whose theater, when “completed” correctly, is truly hilarious—was well aware of this. (75) Now of course the comedy Badiou has in mind here is not...
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Marion Froger, David F. Bell
Issue 160
...for his four films made before 2011. His latest film, Le gang du bois du temple, selected at the Berlin Festival (February 2023), is forthcoming in theaters. The poisoned atmosphere...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 160
...book cover. Photo by author. Jardin composes a life centered in absorbing stone(s), encompassing both a physical process of soaking in a substance slowly and psychological experience of becoming engrossed...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 160
...is distilled into comedy, all terrifying thoughts temporarily banished as Proust the satirist comes out to play. His young narrator suffers periodic breathing “crises,” but for the most part these...
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B. Venkat Mani
Issue 160
...Hitler, you collected my entire library and burned all my books in a public pyre in front of the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University. According to you, my books...
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Eric Hayot
Issue 160
...immense comfort, confronts the (equally understandable) demand to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the building of factories, and the like. We’ve had our development, the West says. But you...
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Delali Kumavie
Issue 160
...June 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/191079. Véronneau, S. J. H., et al. “Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers.” United States Federal Aviation Administration Civil Aeromedical Institute, Office of Aviation Medicine, October 1996, www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/1990s/media/am96-25.pdf...
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John Cayley
Issue 160
View the current version of this digital work. To view Cayley’s notebook with digital code, visit observablehq.com/@shadoof/breathe. breathe is a brief, prose-poetic essay in explicitly paragrammatic language art. The ‘supply...
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Joseph R. Shafer, Jacques Rancière
Issue 155
...follow-up questions were also welcomed over the coming months, and, for one reason or another, every item received equal attention, which was a trait likely to leave the greatest impression....
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Frédérique Berthet
Issue 160
...exhaling and inhaling is learned for life—je t’aime comme je respire, elle parle comme elle respire, il ment comme il respire9292Translator’s note: these three expressions use breathing in ways that...
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Kir Kuiken
Issue 148
It is rare these days to read a book as ambitious as Irving Goh’s The Reject. Taking up the question that Jean-Luc Nancy posed in 1988—”Who comes after the subject?”—Goh’s...
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Jody Sperling
Issue 160
...into the atmosphere as an eddy or gust. With “Wind Rose” (2019),9797www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1kPOOcZQ8 a collaboration with composer Matthew Burtner, I focused on making the connections between breath and wind palpable. Wind...
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Issue 160
...when one is alone, the act of opening one’s chest and replacing one’s lungs can seem little better than a chore. In the company of others, however, it becomes a...
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Jan Baetens
Issue 124
The study of narrative in comics (which I will use as a general term covering both mainstream comics and more highbrow graphic novels) has often been a mere copy of...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Gwenola Wagon
Issue 160
To view Virusland, please visit: .com/547675919. Password: virusland. To view the entire Virusland 2020 project, visit www.virusland.org. Science fiction in found footage. This is not the future. You could buy...
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Gerald Sim
Issue 148
...industry. Among the works that comprise this body of writing, the offerings from Martin-Jones have been reliably lucid and instructive. His readership likely extends beyond committed scholars who are looking...
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Laura Elena Savu Walker
Issue 162
...and its power to build an ever-expanding world community of practioners who are forming what has come to be known as a “theory commons” (ix). As the collection’s editors point...
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Andrew Sobanet
Issue 119
In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes...
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
...of Ernest Riebe and Ern Hanson in the IWW’s Industrial Worker in the early twentieth century, comics and cartoons have been prominent fixtures in anarchist publications, while comic books themselves...
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Elisabeth Weber
Issue 160
In her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin W. Kimmerer contrasts two creation stories that are thoroughly incompatible. One starts with an all-powerful...
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Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, David F. Bell
Issue 160
...Haiti was not accepted into the concert of nations. The country, founded by hordes of previously enslaved Blacks and by freed Mulattos, was a bad example, a model not to...
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Rajeshwari Vallury
Issue 135
...the supposedly unified essence of a community, a tear within the fullness of an immanence completely present to itself. The gap is the sign of a community confronted with itself...
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Sharon Jane Mee
Issue 153
This paper seeks to understand the pulse in the body and its “Open” receptiveness to the image/world as an opening to sensation in cinema. Georges Franju’s film Le Sang des...
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Jeeshan Gazi
Issue 139
...the purpose of this article is to examine what Kracauer actually means when he writes, “My book differs from most writings in the field in that it is a material...
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Michael A. Chaney
Issue 143
...to observe only the memes posted by Black and Red Anarchist on Facebook. Similar messages may be found in anti-racist (and to some extent anti-state) comics by African American artists....
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Craig Fischer, Suzanne Keen
Issue 124
In this era of the graphic novel, we are used to seeing comic books—that is, comic magazines—migrate to the bookshelf in the form of bound collections. Yet do these collections...
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Michael Sheringham
Issue 123
This article focuses on Alferi’s second book of poetry, Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif, published in 1992. It is a companion piece to my article, “Pierre Alferi and the...
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Nora M. Alter
Issue 128
...or pictorial components of audio-visual work all too often comes at the expense of examining systems of representation and signification that are not based on purely linguistic or visual constructions....
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Martin Paul Eve
Issue 144
Reading literature with the aid of computational techniques is controversial. For some, digital approaches apparently fetishize the curation of textual archives, lack interpretative rigor (or even just interpretation), and are...