Article
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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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,...
Article
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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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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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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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...
Article
Frederik Byrn Køhlert
Issue 143
At least since their modern inception in the late nineteenth century, comics have been deeply entwined with anti-authoritarian politics and resistance. As the various contributors to this special issue point...
Article
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...
Article
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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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...
Article
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....
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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”)....
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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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Liliane Campos
Issue 162
...Earth through analogy, allegory and metaphor. Within and against this scale-free reading, I argue that the microcosm has become a fracturing trope that troubles relations between scales. Drawing on fiction...
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Anne-Sophie Milon, Jan Zalasiewicz
Issue 162
...for many paleontologists been a blessedly human-free zone, detached from the busy realities of our everyday lives. The science of paleontology, though, is simply one obscure part of a burgeoning...
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Anthony Mellors
Issue 130
...what she sees as a wasteland of lumpen, non-productive whingers. Yet her epic free-market fantasy centers on a utopia populated by refuseniks—industrialists, bankers, academics, engineers, artists—who have fled to a...
Article
Downing A. Thomas
Issue 102
...combat superstition of all stripes. For Cassirer, Gay, and a generation of literary critics and historians influenced by their work, the Enlightenment represented an antidote to the moral and political...
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Frederick Turner
Issue 94/95
...as impossible to understand, dreams as unimportant, freedom as a meaningless term, and art as snobbery combined with a kind of masturbation of pleasure centers that nature designed for more...
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Pierre Laszlo, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 105
...to distance it, simply by having summoned it before me. Having looked at it in the light of day, I will free myself, superstitiously, from its shadow. There is an...
Article
Lawrence R. Schehr
Issue 107
...high—the war in Vietnam, mai 68, the free speech movement, various movements of liberation and decolonization—theory, with a capital “T,” was seen by many as an powerful antidote to a...
Article
Angela Carr
Issue 144
...an excessive duration. Monotony never wavers, never falters, never surprises. Monotony cannot seduce; there is no attraction of fleeting adventure or freedom in monotony, which is absolute prolongation without hesitation...
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Christine Daigle
Issue 142
Scholars have often taken Foucault by his words and insisted that his philosophy is completely at odds and opposed to Sartre’s—and Beauvoir’s—existentialism. However, it is my contention that Foucault’s own...
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Casey Shoop, Dermot Ryan
Issue 136
...and the Future of Humanity (2010), this generic gesture shows up in the “Big History Project,” a free online course for secondary schools, whose final unit is entitled “The Future”...
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Thangam Ravindranathan
Issue 157
...to produce, as the condition and obverse of all in the world that is beautiful and comfortable (i.e., giving one a sense of security, identity, freedom, opportunity, growth, meaning), another...
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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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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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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...
Article
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...
Article
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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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...
Article
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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David H. Fleming
Issue 141
...survivor testimonies and interviews. The documentary also embeds alarming images from Mohammed Ajmal Kasab’s interrogation, the sole captured terrorist, as he describes his background, training, and the motivation behind his...