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Mark Bonta
Issue 121
Though it has been claimed that Deleuze sought to delink his thought from all religion (Bryden), a close examination of his major writings, as well as his collaborative work with...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 129
...[1995]), as well as a seven-volume (and “six-branch”) “récit autobiographique,” which David Bellos has compared to the work of Marcel Proust.1 The three books Roubaud published in 2008 and 2009,...
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Elisabeth Ladenson
Issue 106
Pity the academic book reviewer! Inflation in the language of review is akin to what has happened to letters of recommendation: as a colleague recently observed, hiring and promotion committees...
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Charles J. Stivale
Issue 100
...writer composes two books, one in ink, the other “written in the soul, with silence and blood” (3). This insight inspires Buchanan to find ways to read this “other book”...
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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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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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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 166
On July 12, 2022, a van caught fire on a small road, the “piste 214,” that winds through the pine forest towards the beach south of La Teste. After several...
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Leah Vonderheide
Issue 169
...sacred burial ground referred to as “The Pines.” The protest was famously documented by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin in Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993). As Obomsawin’s film depicts, the...
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Mareike Schildmann
Issue 165
...and progressive opposition like Büchner opened for the integration of peasants into the (liberal) revolutionary project. What is the function of literature in negotiating the political agency of the peasant...
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Sylvano Santini, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
...of cross-roads constantly traversed by thinkers and artists, a perpetually moving nerve center that opens aesthetic and intellectual experiences into countless interpretations. This is what was experienced at Cerisy in...
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Roland Arthur Greene
Issue 109
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s book belongs to a short but dense tradition of retrospectives, proposals, and jeremiads on the topic of Comparative Literature, a discipline always in search of itself. Delivered...
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John Mowitt
Issue 152
...the articulation between racial difference and sound by probing the now common association of color and noise, for example, the “pink” noise routinely used as a sleep aid. Despite the...
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Richard Turner
Issue 146
...object from an ordinary rock to a viewing stone that invites close examination and perhaps contemplation. In this essay, I will examine the act of “re-grounding” rocks that have been...
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Sarah Rocheville, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 109
...rather a writer who ponders the law, it is perhaps because literature opened up a space from which he could observe life in a much more heightened way than was...
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Bryan Counter
Issue 153
...By employing Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism, Gernot Böhme’s discussion of a “new aesthetics” that can account for atmosphere, and Hannah Freed-Thall’s recent Spoiled Distinctions, this article examines the interconnection of...
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S.F. Kislev
Issue 151
At what “resolution” does Hegel’s dialectic operate? Does it dictate the transition between arguments in a chapter, or the transition between chapters in a book, or the transition between books...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 93
...time describes a circle eternally bereft of a center. For Hill, and for us, Blanchot’s oeuvre offers a present that is already past and will always be yet to come....
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Odile Passot, Paul Lafarge
Issue 90
...He cares little whether the common reader understands: “Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential,” he writes in Commentary on the Society of...
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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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Peter Consenstein
Issue 150
...link those images to the photos. The least that can be asked of readers is to keep an open mind when opening La Lecture by Jan Baetens and Milan Chlumsky....
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Irving Goh
Issue 126
...can learn this through yoga) would involve the conscious sharing of air around us. What this sharing does is open us to the fact that the air we breathe is...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 156
...records, and documents the challenging theoretical, national, and literary questions that both French and American poetries of this period address. Lang’s book is composed of an approximately thirty-page introduction, followed...
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Christophe Pradeau, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
Over the last 30 years, Judith Schlanger has devoted a dozen books to the exploration and description of the intellectual world as it consists of invention, of works–a dynamic space...
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David R. Ellison
Issue 115
David Carroll’s new book on Camus is an important contribution not only to Camus studies but to contemporary reflections on postcolonial theory. The book is a model of scholarship and...
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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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Debarati Sanyal
Issue 101
...his oeuvre has fundamentally shaped — and continues to shape— our ways of reading cultural production. As an overview of the past fifty years of Baudelaire scholarship will attest, some...
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H. Porter Abbott
Issue 94/95
...works like Hilary and Stephen Rose’s recent Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Harmony Books, 2000), contributors often freeze their target in order to shoot at it....
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Lynne Huffer
Issue 120
...full English translation of Foucault’s first major book, History of Madness, Anglophone readers now have the opportunity to retrace the ethical thread that runs through Foucault’s work from start to...
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Réal Fillion
Issue 142
Jacques Rancière, it seems to me, is right: politics are rare (Rancière 1999; May 2008). Democratic political action makes manifest the part that has no part—not as a protest against...
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Marie-Pascale Huglo, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 111
In the cartography of the contemporary French novel, Lydie Salvayre’s oeuvre occupies a place apart—she affirms herself with a singular freedom of tone and a refusal of the serious. The...
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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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Daniel Deshays, David F. Bell
Issue 152
...functioning like the accelerator of a motorbike, ridden by an adolescent, screaming through the housing projects in the middle of the night… Examples of gestures to analyze, each with a...
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Eugene W. Holland
Issue 107
...Matrix (“Everyday Matrix” [9-29]), to Slack and Christa Albrecht-Crane’s examination of the implications of affect for pedagogy (“Toward a Pedagogy of Affect” [191-216])—and it varies in quality almost as much...
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Thomas McLean
Issue 94/95
...Communism to neo-capitalism, but it also responds to stereotypes of Poland that predate the Communist era. Centuries before Winston Churchill warned of an iron curtain descending upon Central Europe, writers...
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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...
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Andrew Benjamin
Issue 117
...(Though it should not be forgotten that Goya’s work belongs to the so-called Black Paintings.) The dog’s head interrupts the line. As a result, what is opened is a site....
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Grégory Chatonsky
Issue 160
This text was co-written with an artificial intelligence (AI). This so-called author wrote a sentence, then the software continued, and so on, each influencing the other, completing each other. Another...
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Gail Friemuth Wronsky
Issue 110
...But her emptiness-ness is hemmed in by lines of type, lines of time. By lies. She’s an opening caught up in flesh, or text. A conniving nothing inside a torture...
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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 134
Timothy Scheie’s book on the importance of the theatre in Roland Barthes’ oeuvre begins with what Scheie poses as an enigma: Barthes wrote frequently of the theatre at the beginning...
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Warren Motte
Issue 89
...write about Marcel Bénabou’s books. They present a limpid, armored surface where the kind of handholds one normally looks for in a text are rare and extraordinarily precarious. Every utterance...
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David Herman
Issue 114
...concerns and methods. Indeed, given the voluminousness of Ricoeur’s writings (helpfully assembled in a comprehensive, 9-page bibliography at the end of the book), readers in a variety of fields will...
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Antoine Volodine, Jean-Didier Wagneur, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 101
...marge, the interrogation was carried out on two fronts: that of information and that of literature. For example, in Vue sur l’ossuaire, the truth that the inquisitors seek with such...
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Jeffrey S. Librett
Issue 89
...another as his or her absolute model. The book focuses on the rhetorical and—in the broadest sense—economic dimensions of imaginary identification and idealization. It examines the ways in which the...
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Guy Zimmerman
Issue 151
...of poststructuralist thought. In Ashes to Ashes, for example, the playwright deploys the fundamental form-generating characteristics of the theatre space itself in this contest against the totalizing schemata of neoliberalism....
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Debarati Sanyal
Issue 98/99
...write an experience that defies representation? Are certain forms of inquiry and representation better suited to the transmission of trauma than others? How can a historical writing of trauma attest...
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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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John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Ellen Spolsky
Issue 94/95
...us) cannot accept. For example, for those attempting to construct computational models of the mind, Spolsky’s counterposing of “human, rather than machine processes”–and at other points, consciousness to algorithms, flexible...
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Eric Prieto
Issue 126
...valedictory stage. Coming hard on the heels of the 2007 publication of De la violence à la divinité, a single-volume collection of his four most important books (Mensonge romantique et...
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Tom Conley
Issue 108
Jacques Rancière may have entered a French pantheon of film theory in 2001 after his publication of an array of essays on classical and contemporary films in La fable cinématographique....
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Jean-Jacques Thomas
Issue 103
...is still commented, seminars are still devoted to his work and, in Paris, the Beaubourg Cultural Center recently organized a six-month long exhibit devoted to his life, his times and...