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Danièle Meaux
Issue 88
...dont la photographie constitute le repoussoir. Comme le montre Charles Grivel dans sa préface, le daguerréotype apparaît comme le degré zéro de l’art, tel que le conçoit Töpffer; il est...
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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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Eric Prieto
Issue 93
...to Discours sur le métissage, could serve as a screening question for potential readers of the book. The progressive (or politically-correct) but too-hasty reader, making the cognitive jump from rabbits...
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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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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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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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Franc Schuerewegen, David F. Bell
Issue 105
Are there any shepherds left in America? I suppose you have replaced them with computers or robots. It’s less expensive and cleaner. Jules Verne would have liked to live in...
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Jacques Rancière
Issue 103
...or embodiments imply that you are taken into account as subjects sharing in a common world, making statements and not simply noise, discussing things located in a common world and...
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Marie-Laure Ryan
Issue 89
Few of us have actually donned a HMD (head-mounted display) and DGs (data-gloves), and entered a computer-generated, three-dimensional landscape in which all of our wishes can be fulfilled: wishes such...
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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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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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Asger Jorn, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 90
...of Godwin, who was an inspiration to Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, William Blake, and many others, just as Proudhon is the inspiration for Courbet’s painting. From this group comes a large...
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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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Christian Delacampagne, David F. Bell
Issue 106
...carrying De la grammatologie under my arm at the time. In his Comédie (1997), Bernard-Henri Lévy recounts a similar scene, which in his case took place a year earlier. For...
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Mark B. N. Hansen
Issue 104
...as social actors: as it becomes increasingly mediated by the communication networks of the new media, interpellation comes to materialize a “self that is no longer a subject since it...
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Noah D. Guynn
Issue 98/99
...of a desire, lack, or defect toward an end-point of fulfillment, completion, or perfection. To give merely the most famous examples, Arthur, the once and future king, is in some...
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Jacques Jouet, Ian Monk
Issue 96
What is a Subway Poem? From time to time, I write subway poems. This poem being an example. Do you want to know what a subway poem consists of? Let’s...
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Karim Larose, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
...historic and linguistic reasons, finds itself among “minority” and marginalized cultures. Indeed, Deleuze and Guattari use it as an example in their demonstration. 2 However, despite the pertinence of this...
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Conor Spence
Issue 170
This article develops the concept of “necromantic media” using the works of Chris Chesher, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Gilbert Simondon. Examining the productive dynamics of LLMs (large language models),...
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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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William Donoghue
Issue 85
...warns about how we start with soft drugs, but soon move up to the hard stuff. In the case of skepticism that would surely mean coming to a bad end....
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 147
...around machines with a common function. There were historians of science and technology, scholars in literature, art, media studies, gender studies, philosophers of science, and the list remained open. The...
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Antonio Negri, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...to transform itself into its own opposite, not only into the open barbarism of fascism but also into the totalitarian subjection of the masses effected by the new seductions of...
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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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David F. Bell
Issue 140
In March 2012, Joshua Foer presented a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talk to a mesmerized audience. As he began, Foer asked the audience members to close their eyes, and he...
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Barbara Agnese, Claire-Anne Gormally
Issue 137
...last century, embodies a polyphonic, complex cognitive enterprise which includes both original uses of language and sophisticated patterns of moral reflection. Modern literature thus represents a new model of paradigmatic...
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Laurence Simmons
Issue 132
Jacques Derrida began a lecture entitled “Comment ne pas trembler,” that he delivered on 17 July 2004 at the Fondazione Europea del Disegno in Meina on the shores of Lago...
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Krzysztof Skonieczny
Issue 154
In The Inoperative Community Jean-Luc Nancy suggests that his conception of speech as the cornerstone of community can be likened to the image of two Inuit women engaging in traditional...
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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...
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David Cunningham
Issue 107
...and those of a man he calls that “loathsome Leninist Breton” (MacCabe, 82). The comment is an aside—it appears in brackets and in a book devoted to the late 1960s...
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Roland Racevkis
Issue 98/99
...book. As is often the case with compendia of this type, the quality of the chapters is somewhat uneven. Nevertheless, the volume as a whole is a highly valuable contribution...
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Michel Lacroix
Issue 97
...it fascinating? How do French critics and historians resist its fascination? While there has been a plethora of articles, books and theses written about it in the United States in...
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Jean-Louis Hippolyte
Issue 111
...remarkably unconcerned with pathos (mania). It is a love tempered by stoicism; this love does not amount to indifference, but seeks freedom from passion, which, etymologically, incorporates “anguish” and “suffering.”...
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Julian Murphet
Issue 113
...the other standing in for subjective particularity and the gesture of free will – are ceaselessly reabsorbed into one another in the phenomenology of reading, as what had at first...
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Arnaud François, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 114
...thing-in-itself.4 As for Bergson, it is following Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (TFW, 1889) that he suggests that we can have access to...
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Marie Larose
Issue 166
...Me” campaign, part of the National Tree Planting Initiative, whereby parents or guardians of children born after 2019 were invited to national nurseries to collect a free fruit seedling (“Forestry”)....