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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Jean-Francois Fourny
Issue 93
...formulated by philosophy. Bourdieu’s approach has placed him at the center of French public life and provoked vigorous debates, for it aims at nothing less than reshaping entire “fields” (to...
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Beate Krais
Issue 93
Bourdieu first entered the sociological discussion of the gender relationship in 1990 with his essay on “male domination,” which appeared (revised) as a book in 1998. This makes him one...
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Kenneth Berri
Issue 92
“The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.” –Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being “Ah! Monsieur, combien notre entendement est modifié par les signes.”...
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Claude Burgelin, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 89
...(a questionable position), the two other books surely belong in this tradition. Nonetheless, neither Narcissus nor Job is taking up the pen here. Most autobiographers write from the position of...
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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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Remy Lestienne
Issue 91
...hard time living without it. This is why the reminder of what evolution owes to chance, coming from certain contemporary biologists and paleontologists like Stephen Jay Gould, is salutory. The...
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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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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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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...