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Shakespeare’s Spam Poethics
This essay argues that amidst the superfluous clutter of spam is a credible ethos combining the poetic consolation of the early modern sonneteer with the indulgent excesses of a capitalist...
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Faciality and Ontological Doubt in Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Photography
...reveal the complexity of Meatyard’s art and explicate their so-called Symbolist suggestiveness as well as to show how the medium-specific boundary between painting and photography is fundamentally put into question....
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Liban. Mémoires fragmentées d’une guerre obsédante: L’anamnèse dans la production Culturelle francophone (2000–2015) by Carla Calargé (review)
...act of recalling the memory of Christ, and performing a memory ritual that is central to communal identity-formation and self-understanding. In modern times, anamnesis has been absorbed into the medical...
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The Synecdoche of Poiesis
...distort our contemporary understanding of production. Nancy inadvertently dramatizes this distortion by mistranslating Plato’s account in a manner compatible with the Heideggerian contrariety, but incompatible with Nancy’s convictions regarding the...
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Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations
In this essay, we identify and discuss three motifs that enable literary narrative to perform a shift from a phenomenological, common-sense understanding of the body to the far more challenging...
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Sestina: Walter Benjamin at Port Bou
...saw myself placed. There is not enough time to write all the letters I would have liked to write. —purportedly Walter Benjamin’s last communication, a postcard dated September 25, 1940)...
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Derrida’s Nonpower—From Writing to Zoopower
...are often taken as foregrounding a compassionate ethics in the face of the vulnerable (animal) other. This paper traces a genealogy of Derrida’s occasional remarks on power and passivity to...
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Writing a Different Ending to the “World War” Pitting Humanity Against the Biosphere in Michel Serres and Jacques Derrida’s Philosophy
...philosophical, and ideological roots. Specifically, they problematize two of the most pervasive and lethal social constructs, the Genesis myth and the bêtemachine theory, which continue to breed complacency and ignorance....
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The Hyperbolic Logic of Constraint in the Poetic Works of Jacques Jouet
...defines when, where, and to whom he writes as well as which form it adopts. This raises the question of how it compares with earlier forms of the Oulipian constraint,...
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CO-MODIFIED: Rocks on Vinyl comprises nine 6′ x 3′ banners displayed like convention signage. They are presented as a series of speculative geomedia landscapes that explore contemporary human entanglements and...
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Geology, Myth, Media
This article argues for the relevance of mythical signification in our geological epoch. More than this, it contends that we need to revise our assumptions about media and communication systems...
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Baudelaire and the Literary Fabrication of the Poor
...Diable (1846) or Francois le Champi (1847–48). At that time, Hugo’s masterpiece, Les misérables (1862), which would have a tremendous impact on Baudelaire’s prose poem project, is still to come....
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A Question of Faith? : Stengers and Whitehead on Causation and Conformationhale
...comments on how their remarks could help us reorient how we approach some of the unexpected interrelations between faith and cause in science, philosophy, and social science. Stengers’s stance does...
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The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement by Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito, and: Une nouvelle pratique littéraire en France: Histoire du groupe Oulipo de 1960 à nos jours / Creating a New French Literary Style: A History of the Oulipo Circle by Cécile De Bary (review)
Two recent texts join the field of research on the Oulipo writing group. The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement is a slim volume, mostly comprising two...
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Intermedial Relations: A Critique of Reification Theory
...the fixtures and fittings of a building or shop, or the parts of a machine” (108). Agencement is, in this regard, a compelling word in ways that assemblage is not....
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Pre-Political Topology Emerging from Biotechnology’s Secretions
...discourse, it seems more meaningful to come back first of all to the rough material of research in play in this specific area. That is, starting from the perspective of...
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Le Fils and the Limits of Philosophical Ethics
...a kind of achievement: the Wittgensteinian achievement of elucidating the inner connections between aspects of a thing, but also a representation that captures some of its richness, complexity and ambiguity....
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Belief in this World: The Dardenne brothers’ The Son and Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
...the boy Francis out to the sawmill (the trip being compared to Abraham and Isaac’s journey to Moriah) in order to seek personal retribution for the murder of his son....
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A Note on Deleuze and Renaissance Art
...Withdrawn and private, the Renaissance appears not as a compelling or enticing adversary, but a bureaucratic administrator of the state machine, instituting universal regulations and a system of surveillance without...
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Michel Serres’ Great Story: From Biosemiotics to Econarratology
...and calls of the natural world.1 To date, the Anglophone reception of this complex and varied oeuvre has been slender to the point of emaciation, but one area where he...
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Orality and Objectification: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Filmmakers and Translators
...an artificial set of constraints, designed to complicate a game that would otherwise be too simple; rather, they define the artist’s position in the world, in the historical moment and...
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The Meridian and the Eastern Front: Contemporaneity and the Ethos of Translation
...This essay argues that translation is more than the communication of meaning or the transmission of information through time, that it displays a powerful way of disclosing a future in...
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Téléphone arabe
...one of my films.” – Raoul Ruiz Definition In French, the expression “téléphone arabe” has two meanings: 1) An oral communication and, furthermore, a rumor or unreliable information; 2) A...
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Dancing Across the Page by Karen Barbour (review)
...and comments on the political aims she has formed through her own life experience as a dancer, dance instructor, academic researcher and author, feminist, woman, mother, and English-speaking Pākehā, the...
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Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe (review)
Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics has become one of today’s most compelling sociocultural theories informing study of the relationship between power and life. While Foucault deployed the concept in a...
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Archimedean Points in a Network of Cosmological Metaphors: Fontenelle, Locke, Fichte, and Kant
...the Earth doubles as a planet in the universe and the foundation upon which people raise buildings. Both metaphorical fields come together most prominently when Fichte draws on the anecdote...
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February 13: Paul Celan’s Political, Spiritual and Poetical Anarchies
...3 190). In his biography John Felstiner briefly mentions Celan’s affiliation, noting that the poet soon relinquished his communist sympathies but stood loyal to the ethoi of socialism and anarchism...
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French Global: A New Approach to Literary History ed. by Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman (review)
...who were made responsible for it, while at the same time providing evidence of a new creative community ready to usher in a bright future for literary writing in the...
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Causeries, or Critical Chit-Chat, or A Gift for Slighting the Gifted
Marcel Proust, as a writer, was even more, shall we say (in order to invoke the first near-complete and also tea-based experience of involuntary memory had by the would-be-writer narrator...
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An Actor of the Street: Events, Agencies, and Gatherings
Beginning with the mid-century rise of computing, the practice of tracking has relied on observational experts installed in the control rooms of military and intelligence operations—specialists skilled in the detection...
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Archiving in the Age of Digital Conversion: Notes for a Politics of “Remains”
Over the last few decades, the public institutions responsible for archiving have been confronted with new challenges arising from electronic communication. Nevertheless, as a specialist in such national institutions has...
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Introduction: Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory
This special issue assembles an international group of scholars to explore emerging connections between comics studies and narrative theory—two fields which, until the last five to ten years, have developed...
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Fast Tracks to Narrative Empathy: Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization in Graphic Narratives
...neocortex. In comics and graphic narratives, illustrations of faces and bodily postures may capitalize on the availability of visual coding for human emotions, eliciting readers’ feelings before they even read...
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Poems and Monsters: Pierre Alferi’s “Cinépoésie”
...to one of his recent titles, everything begins. Ça commence à Séoul (2007) is the result of a collaboration between Pierre Alferi and sculptor Jacques Julien. In this poetic and...
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Perception, Imagination, and the Self: Pierre Alferi’s Fmn
...by the philosopher Colin McGinn. My aim is to suggest that Alferi’s concentration on the visual is bound to his belief that actual experience cannot be compartmentalized into experience of...
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Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience (review)
...silence nor noise nor mere sound, music is sound marked, qualified, stereotyped, somehow distinctive, and thus communicative. Music research presents practical challenges as well. While a scholar discussing a painting...
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The Navel of the Dream: Freud, Derrida and Lacan on the Gap where “Something Happens”
...in a 1996 essay entitled “Resistances” (“Resistances” 5). The dream has, to borrow a phrase from another context and J. Hillis Miller, “an inexhaustible power to generate commentary” (Miller 177)....
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The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (review)
...that abolition did not end racism, economic exploitation, and colonization in the French territories. In contrast, Miller’s meticulously researched and comprehensive coverage of France’s involvement in and profit from the...
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Liberation Theology: Deleuze and Althaus-Reid
The contemporary relation between theology and philosophy is a complicated one, but there is at least one strand in theology that has always explicitly used philosophical mediations to clarify and...
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Exemplary or Singular?: The Anecdote in Historical Narrative
Although coming from different perspectives and periods, the two quotations above speak of the ambivalence that modern historiography has systematically displayed toward the anecdote since Voltaire. An anecdote—defined here as...
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Explorations in Poetics, and: La Poésie du lieu : Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge (review)
...Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His Marc Chagall and His Times (Stanford, 2004) won the American Koret Award for fiction and biography....
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Against the Image: Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal
...community of dwarves in an institution on the island, and the insurrection they launch against their keepers. The revolt is by turns, farcical, incompetent and destructive – setting fire to...
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Habit, Reason, and the Limits of Normativity
...count as a reason it must be able to be recognized as a reason by our interlocutors and be something that we can individually and collectively commit ourselves to—that is,...
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Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K
...I tried to take it all in and to be as comprehensive as possible, close reading letters and poring over drafts. When running out of time, I developed a more...
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“There’s no Lack of Void”: Waste and Abundance in Beckett and DeLillo
...distribution of resources—commodities as well as capital and mineral reserve—has traditionally been understood as an unequal sharing, as balancing the wealth of the few against the poverty of the many,...
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Wong Kar-wai’s Films and the Culture of the Kawaii
...Western directors. The twofold concentration on Wong’s Hong Kong origins on the one hand, and his compatibility with Western cinema on the other, can be explained through Wong’s almost unique...
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Feux et Signaux de Brume: Virginia Woolf’s Lighthouse
...the invading brambles. Just as the faces and hands of old men become wrinkled, so the rooftop and walls of the house come to bear the marks of bad weather...