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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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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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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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Michael Lundblad
Issue 126
...kind much at all in this otherwise erudite, wide-ranging, and impressive new book. But the cover art points toward the “two different senses of posthumanism” (xix) that are brought together...
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Kélina Gotman
Issue 143
...this English-speaking world–my habitus–I have come into the habit of buying books in English even when they were written in my father’s French, because I can use them to teach....
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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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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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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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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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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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Laura Otis
Issue 159
...as vision and touch) that blend as in lived experience. In this study of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive, I will examine...
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Luke Munn
Issue 161
...oil and gas industry) with insights from media, cultural, and environmental studies, this article explores this grappling with uncertainty. To manage uncertainty, companies strive to internalize the complexity and contingency...
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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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Kevin Kopelson
Issue 133
...mother to whom both the coming-out testament and its continued refusal to come out are addressed?” asks Sedgwick. “And isn’t some scene like that,” she asks as well, “behind the...
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Marie-Pierre Le Hir
Issue 103
...unfair—criticism that Bourdieu’s work is “intrinsically resistant to social change”(5). While Bourdieu’s political activism and visibility in the media from the early 1990s on clearly attest to the importance he...
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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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Rosalyn Diprose
Issue 132
...recognition of shared vulnerability and interdependence, Murphy rightly supports the kind of ontology that this emphasis on vulnerability comes from: an ontology of human existence emerging from existential phenomenology that...
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Joanna Howard
Issue 166
...fantasy, and lead to derangement, or madness. To own such a view would lead to worse, I suspect. However, my fancier friend argued it was not deranged to demand common...
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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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Jean-Jacques Thomas
Issue 124
While comics today have entered the world of what used to be called Western “high art,” manga—Japanese comics strongly associated with fan culture and genre—less publically breaks through into Anglo-European...
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Mark B. N. Hansen
Issue 129
...theorize the “agency” of the environment that comes to the fore as we humans enter, as we do increasingly today, into alliances with sophisticated, computational technologies.1 In concert with researchers...
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Tom Conley
Issue 155
In L’Entretien infini (1969), in two essays on René Char, Blanchot engages what he calls a parole de fragment, an open-ended and ever-approximate form of writing that disorients, displaces, and...
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Alex Moskowitz
Issue 149
...seeks to form a theoretical framework that contains the two eponymous figures. Bidet rightfully argues that most scholarship that strives to open a dialogue between Marx and Foucault merely results...
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Anthony Purdy
Issue 135
...reproachfully like jetsam on a beach: pens, pencils, piles of books and papers, a terracotta bowl containing paper clips, a small crescent-moon tin from the 1950s with the image of...
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Gerald Bruns
Issue 120
...also because any effort of conjunction threatens to limit the autonomy that opens the practice of poetry to its multifarious futures. (On my desk, as I write this, is a...
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Phyllis Taoua
Issue 102
A few years ago, Ania Loomba explored a number of critical approaches to the vigorously debated relationship between the local and the global in her book Colonialism/Postcolonialism (1998). Since then,...
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Bruno Clement, David F. Bell
Issue 106
...that Circonfession works so hard to bring into the realm of thought. What I retain from this stunning book (hardly a book, in fact—more a series of annotations at the...
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Mario Perniola, Deborah Amberson
Issue 106
...His influence on my thinking grew significantly during the 1970s and ’80s, as is evident in my books Ritual Thinking: Sexuality, Death, World, (New York: Humanity Books 2001), Sex Appeal...
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Tom Conley
Issue 104
...own commercial motivations. A compelling chapter on the haeccity and quiddity—the “thisness”or “thatness”—of the musical performances determines how, for participants, sensation, movement, and affect conspire to produce “events” in the...
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Kat Matson
Issue 169
...task for herself to create “a book of practical philosophy about living in a folded cosmos” (5), and that playfulness keeps her book much more accessible than it could otherwise...
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Zahava Caspi
Issue 131
The present article will examine this constant tension between the dangerously seductive power of the apocalyptic aesthetic, on the one hand, and the inherently ethical intent of apocalyptic art, on...
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Mathieu Triclot, Charles La Via
Issue 147
...examined: the immersive multimedia installations of psychedelic culture, the flicker and its physiological effects, biofeedback devices, and the digital translations, in the world of computing, of these first analogical devices....
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Bruno Chaouat
Issue 138
Leon Sachs’s The Pedagogical Imagination: the Republican Legacy in 21st-Century French Literature and Film sets out to examine the “parallels in the discourses of modern pedagogy and modern literary and...
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Chantal Jaquet
Issue 160
...woman’s scent, which re-enchants his morose universe, dazzles him with its brilliance and eclipses vision by taking possession of its attributes. It is only afterward that he begins to examine...
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Ryan Prewitt, Max Accardi
Issue 161
...the digital age has accelerated the process through examples ranging from medieval saints to Lenin’s mausoleum to the Tupac hologram. It then examines cultural necromancy’s implications for counterculture and resistance....
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Gabriel Rockhill
Issue 103
...the nature of literature. The empirical approach, for example, accepts the self-evidence of the historical conventions that establish a well-circumscribed catalogue of literary works. This positivistic attitude is countered by...
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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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Toby Miller
Issue 115
I begin with a quotation about the United States in 2004: [H]airy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat...
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Melanie White
Issue 134
...law, rights, justice, freedom and morality. For Émile Durkheim, founder of the French sociological tradition, the question of society is one such great question.1 Indeed, it was the question for...
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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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Krzysztof Ziarek
Issue 132
The notion of vulnerability comes from the Late Latin vulnerabilis, derived from vulnerare “to wound,” which comes from vulner-, vulnus “wound.” As the Merriam-Webster dictionary suggests, it is probably akin...
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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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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 144
I undertook this review to celebrate Daniel Albright’s contributions to the theory of interrelations among the arts, and had nearly completed it before learning that he had died early in...
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Yuk Hui
Issue 167
...book, but more concentratedly in Part III, “The Genesis of Technicity.” Simondon often uses the term to describe the process of a bifurcation of phases; for example, the magical phase...
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Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf
Issue 168
One of the reasons to study the past has always been that it casts our connection to the present in relief. At its best, a careful examination of history offers...