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Matthew B. Smith
Issue 150
...many respects the book’s central figure, who is treated in two consecutive chapters. As can be seen in her choice of poets, Gavin’s approach is transnational and multilingual. This allows...
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Jason Rhys Parry
Issue 144
In Book II of the ancient architectural treatise, De architectura, Vitruvius gives a mythical account of the conjoined origins of architecture and language: “[I]n ancient times,” he writes, “men were...
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Mathew Abbott
Issue 141
Near the end of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, the book’s eponymous protagonist recalls visiting the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes with his friend Marie.1 The zoo is in bad...
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Matthew Mullins
Issue 138
...disrupting and almost asserting themselves as components of the title. The effect is a fitting first impression for an eminently readable book that throws philosophy off balance and then tries...
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Greg Ellermann
Issue 163
Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism is, above all, a book about philosophical method. It is also a highly significant study of the conceptual architecture of Marxism, developed by way of a...
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Morgane Cadieu
Issue 166
Polity Press, in its Key Concept series, favors natural elements for the covers of its books on social issues: lush rice fields for Will Atkinson’s Class; close-up leaves for Muriel...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 106
...play that occupies the first part of Spectres of Marx. What is Hamlet doing in a book about Marx and ghosts—both Marx’s ghosts (the famous spectre mentioned at the beginning...
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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 104
...théâtre-récit est une nette manifestation de cette suppression des frontières génériques” (8). Engelberts challenges this argument in his book, Défis du récit Scénique: Formes et enjeux du mode narrative dans...
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Marcel Benabou, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 100
...World, have almost never ceased to fascinate me since. These are questions of language, of course. Language grasped in its amazing complexity. And first of all in its materiality: the...
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Jean-François Hamel, Bernard Schutze
Issue 155
This article aims to highlight the politics of emotions that govern Maurice Blanchot’s insurrectional writings. Starting from the example of Simone Weil, who contrasted the “joy” of the general strike...
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Joshua Armstrong
Issue 148
This article examines Olivier Rolin’s use of stream of consciousness narration in L’invention du monde (1993). It draws upon philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Paul Virilio to propose that the novel—with...
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Kelley Conway
Issue 133
...really a French film or a Warner Brothers’ film, the “national” in French national cinema was complicated. And yet a quick glance at the course offerings of most film departments...
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Eric Méchoulan, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 130
...on the side of an economically viable 21st century. Thus it appears useful, in our highly utilitarian times, to examine the notion more closely and to grasp the very impact...
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Frederick Luis Aldama
Issue 129
...mental capacity to ascribe a function to objects (a chair is to sit, etc.) and an essence to living creatures (the posited unchanging, ungraspable spirit or soul, for example). Zunshine’s...
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Jan Baetens
Issue 128
...biography recently published in France (and forthcoming in English translation at Polity Press) can be seen as an example of how to confront many of the difficulties presented by attempts...
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Barry Nevin, Aoife O'Connor
Issue 158
...spectator-identification. This analysis ultimately aims to demonstrate the import of Kristeva’s theories to a more comprehensive understanding of the abject’s complex relationship to Refn’s œuvre and to spectator-identification in cinema....
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Niels Wilde
Issue 158
...Anthropos? The latter examines the ethical challenges we face in the wake of deep timespans and fragmented agencies. This article presents the upshots of this ongoing debate and suggests an...
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Allan Stoekl
Issue 157
This essay is a discussion of two works by contemporary French writer Olivier Rolin: Le Météorologue (2014) and Bakou, derniers jours (2010), both examples of empiritext, a contemporary genre of...
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Vincent Bruyere
Issue 157
...IV proposes a complete replica integrated within an interactive museum environment. The replication project continues: Chauvet II in 2015; Cosquer II in 2022. How these replicas were built is well...
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Joshua Schuster
Issue 157
...and make it more inhabitable. I examine historical efforts to think aliens philosophically in the work of Kant, to conclude with a reflection on the trope of contact between humans,...
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Wen Yongchao
Issue 154
4E cognition (embodied, embedded, extended and enactive cognition) is the defining feature of second-generation cognitive science, which replaces a computer-like cognitive processing model with one that highlights the interactive dynamism...
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Ara H. Merjian
Issue 153
...history yet simultaneously alien to it – that figures prominently in Pasolini’s aesthetics throughout the period: the African-American community and its particular cultural and counter-cultural expressions. By virtue of the...
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Danielle Sands
Issue 153
In this article, I examine Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers’s recent writings on Gaia, the mythological goddess repurposed in the 1970s by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis as geobiological trope....
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Erica O'Neill
Issue 149
John H. Muse’s Microdramas: Crucibles for Theatre and Time examines the production of short plays across the history of Western theatre practice, from the late-nineteenth century to contemporary performance. Categorizing...
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Martin Savransky
Issue 145
In what may seem like an uncharacteristic passage by someone who otherwise described himself as the typical example of the Victorian Englishman, Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that “[t]he notion...
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Johanna M. Wagner
Issue 139
In criticism of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, more attention has been paid in recent years to the unconventional side of Lily Bart. Wai-Chee Dimock, for example, calls Lily...
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Eric Méchoulan, Angela Carr
Issue 138
...art or a specific medium. Consider the example that cinema provides: “its medium-specific possibility seems to have been well and truly overrun by its tendency to intermediality, its fundamental impurity....
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 136
...or film. His main examples, in path-breaking analyses of George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, come from nineteenth-century British literature, but they should inspire studies in other areas....
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Roxanna Curto
Issue 135
This volume examines the notion of “creolization,” from its origins as a “historical process specific to particular colonial sites”(viii) to its later use as a more general theme, applicable to...
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Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
Issue 134
...significantly impact the research questions posed by some disciplines. Political philosophy is one example of this. Although recently we have seen the emergence of new work in this area from...
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Katey Castellano
Issue 125
...lost harmony between humans and nature” (229). Foreseeing that the rise and progress of industrial modernity might irreversibly erode both the landscape and local communities, Romantic literature questions humanistic, technological...
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Jared Gardner
Issue 124
...narrative, for example, one could have imagined narrative theory beating a hasty retreat. After all, as Metz reminds us, film is not a language system; it has no easy equivalent...
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Nilo F. Couret
Issue 123
...Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanism, Peter J. Bloom examines the myriad uses to which the documentary image was put during the interwar period, arguing that the representation of a pre-civilized...
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William Behum
Issue 121
Among the most problematic of the main concepts of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking is the Body without Organs (BwO.) This paper undertakes to examine the BwO in the light of...
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
Issue 117
A humanist politics sees its fulfilment in individual liberation. As Kant argued in “Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose”—a text I will examine later—the perfect operation of...
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Katherine Ibbett
Issue 160
...the Protestant minority, under increasing and violent pressure from the Catholic state, met his example with a last gasp of their own. The term “souffle” is everywhere in the martyrologies...
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Emily McAvan
Issue 164
In this article, I propose the concept of flotsam –waste washed-up or discarded in water –as a means of making sense of the pollution of the Anthropocene. Using examples taken...
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Teresa Hiergeist
Issue 165
...bodega as example, it considers bourgeois nightmare scenarios of a complot of uncivilized, menacing masses, as well as anarchist and socialist visions of a classless society created by direct action....
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Sandy Alexandre
Issue 166
...consulted for this fact in popular culture, they are, in fact, embodiments of social knowledge trained on the vast archive of our human antics; see, for example, the omniscient ur-tree...
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Jason Tuckwell
Issue 167
...signification at the limits of language and information. This article examines whether Simondon’s ontology can be reduced to a series of metaphorical transpositions. It argues that the consistency and originality...
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Audrey Wasser
Issue 167
...Potentials,” it examines what Simondon calls his “analogical method” and explains how the method works as a justificatory procedure. And it raises the question of whether the analogical method assumes...
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Grant Hussong
Issue 167
...individual as transduction. With the example of cybernetics, I argue that critical disability work elucidates implicit sociology’s machinations. In turn, Simondon’s individuation provides a helpful analytic for scholars today toggling...
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Steven Winspur
Issue 114
...“literary space” for understanding the ways in which literature questions the foundations of social space, whether political or cultural. Several contributors also examine the ways in which writers engage their...
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 113
...this period, which has been especially noteworthy for gathering and preserving knowledge of filmmaking in former colonies around the world. Like medieval studies, for example, film studies is a demanding,...
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Daniel Just
Issue 168
...this period, since he wants to keep writing, he is also looking for a new form of writing—neutral writing as a counterpart to neutral living. This study examines Barthes’s late...
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Philip G. Hadlock
Issue 111
...the initial Tour de France cycling race took place in 1903; the internal-combustion engine, invented in the 1880’s, was developed for use in the project to establish a rail network...
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Brett Parker
Issue 111
...and others. Indeed, it is Hoy’s ability to contextualize poststructuralism in relation to both contemporary theory and the philosophical tradition that makes Critical Resistance such a strong examination of poststructuralism....
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Larson Powell
Issue 111
...also, in his later work, of Heidegger. Kittler’s work not only combines the unearthing of forgotten historical and archival materials with interdisciplinary linkages from literature to music and the hard...
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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 109
...benefit of the criminals, both suffering and redemption. Human crimes had to be paid for in pain, as the example of Christ illustrated. In 1804, Nicolas Frochot, Governor of Paris,...
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Vicki Kirby
Issue 107
...Learning Channel. There was nothing especially remarkable about what it had to say; in fact it was just another example of the various excuses for scientific sleuthing that fill our...