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Lionel Ruffel, Laura Balladur
Issue 101
Reading an interrogation, and to a greater extent analyzing it, puts one in a complex and ambiguous position. At any moment the researcher experiences the interrogation and thus may be...
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Joe Larios
Issue 148
In this paper, Levinas’s concept of fraternity is shown to rely upon an exclusion of beings deemed “faceless” and open for appropriation. By limiting ethics to humans, Levinas established nonhumans...
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Simone Drichel
Issue 132
...being helpless? Or have we taken a wrong turn already, in the opening paragraph, before we have even had a chance to get under way in our consideration of vulnerability?...
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Simone Drichel
Issue 132
Why open this essay—which seeks to address the question of vulnerability via the vexed relationship between deconstruction and postcolonial studies—with what even Attridge himself acknowledges to be a “rather contrived...
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Denis Mellier, Charles La Via
Issue 147
...digital is opening up different perspectives as the body has been acquiring an authentic digital skin in recent fantastic cinema. Cartoonization of the body, plasticity, endoscopic journeys into bodies and...
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Rok Benčin
Issue 144
...in Raoul Ruiz’s film adaptation, Marcel Proust’s Time Regained (1999), photographs are used by the director to set the world of the novel into motion. Does the opening scene, which...
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T. Hugh Crawford
Issue 144
...not usually regarded as a philosopher overly concerned with embodiment, I have found Alfred North Whitehead’s work offers a set of concepts that opens up the domain of thinking as...
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Travis Wilds
Issue 144
In his classic Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Erich Auerbach famously cites the opening pages of Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot as emblematic of modern realism. With...
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Aarnoud Rommens
Issue 143
It is not often that reading—let alone the reading of comics—is identified as a “need,” a function of basic physical “survival”: In Argentina, we were forced, as a question of...
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Alexander Dickow
Issue 137
...that here and now, which he calls “Presence.” For Bonnefoy, poetry ought to open onto the epiphanic experience of Presence. Bonnefoy’s most famous work, Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de...
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Rose Harris-Birtill
Issue 136
In 1786, Jeremy Bentham began a series of letters detailing a controversial prison structure. Printed in 1791, the preface opened with a hefty promise: “Morals reformed – health preserved –...
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Lynda Ng
Issue 136
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a novel intent on blasting open the classical unities of time and place. On publication in 2004, its unusual structure made it a talking-point for...
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Jocelyn Holland
Issue 135
...sea. It is the moment when Archimedes the mathematician launches a half-built ship with the aid of one of his inventions. Further details and further interpretations are open to debate....
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Will Bishop, Irving Goh
Issue 126
...tastes that they would not admit in their philosophical writings. In other words, touch opens up worlds—the world of oneself and the world of others, and even the hidden world...
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Erin Manning
Issue 126
...a demand: it asks the participant to relate, in this time of interaction, to the unfolding of the work. It asks the participant to be open to a certain unknowability,...
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Frida Beckman
Issue 125
Time and history have come to play a particularly important role in the understanding of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. While his conception of time—built among other things on the...
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The Editors of SubStance
Issue 119
...of the confines of this perspective would be to open oneself to the project of a world literature, mentioned by Goethe in a conversation with Eckerman—that is, to understand the...
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Dominique Jullien
Issue 118
...they are not considered fit to be a serious basis for a philosophical discussion or scholarly elaboration, though they could open the way for one. In fact, one could apply...
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John Cayley
Issue 160
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Nathalie Dupont, Thangam Ravindranathan
Issue 166
...the contrary, in trees. Walking on branches would have been an effective way of foraging in open-canopy forests, as well as of advancing otherwise—taking the “arboreal route”—through rocky terrain (Drummond-Clark...
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Jonathan Basile
Issue 166
...their own pedigree with this tree. By questioning its roots, we open ourselves to other suspicions of the legacies—Abrahamic and ontotheological—that we may unknowingly or compulsively repeat or inherit today....
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Marcel Hénaff, Roxanne Lapidus, Robert Doran
Issue 115
...September 11 do not allow us to consider this page as having been turned. Rather, the attacks open a parallel or divergent path of “terror” alongside the classical nuclear threat....
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Carla Calargé, Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 113
In the opening pages of Mireille Rosello’s France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters, the reader will find an answer to the question its title begs: “What is a ‘performative encounter?’”...
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John Schad
Issue 168
...thereby opened not only to such familiar inter-War figures as the literary critics of Cambridge (F. R. Leavis et al.) but also to such obscure or even fictional figures as...
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Jennifer Wild
Issue 111
...be mistaken in assuming that it is solely canonical impulse that has led Angela Dalle Vacche to open her collection of essays with a discussion of Benjamin’s classic text. Dalle...
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Jean-Yves Lazennec, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 104
...member of the Comédie Française, who will be working with us on another production, scheduled to open in early 2005 in Paris and on tour. What makes this writing pertinent...
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Charif Majdalani, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 101
...that have marked the twentieth century. But Volodine’s oeuvre also recounts something else—or, at least, gives expression to, opens out onto other oeuvres arising from the very heart of this...
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Jean Pierre Sarrazac, Virginie Magnat
Issue 98/99
Art can only be reconciled with its existence by exposing its internal emptiness. — Adorno, Théorie Esthétique At the opening of Gordon Craig’s The Art Of The Theater (1912), the...
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Timothy Murray
Issue 98/99
...Reeves have been calling for a unifying, spiritualizing aesthetic in contrast to the shifting postmodern terrain of politics and identity. The artistic call for a spectacle of comforting accord openly...
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Jean-Charles Baduli
Issue 97
...policy of openness to all views, we take great pleasure in reproducing his commentary here. Jean-Charles Baduli Althen-des-Paluds, le 31 octobre 2001 à M. Warren MOTTE Université du Colorado à...
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John Tooby, Leda Cosmides
Issue 94/95
Opening Mysteries: The Anomaly of the Arts in the Evolutionary Landscape Organic evolution has two independent components, which together explain how all of the evolved features of organisms came into...
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Damon Franke
Issue 91
Tate, Trudi. Modernism, History and the First World War. Manchester University Press, 1998. Cloth $29.95 On March 25th, 1999, Ted Koppel opened Nightline‘s coverage of the second day of the...
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Andrew Barnaby
Issue 128
...our parents coming together. —Justin Martyr, First Apology In discussing the impact of traumatic experience on the workings of memory, Bessel van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart challenge...
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Matt Jones
Issue 143
...jokes displays a continuation of the anarchic spirit that CH has developed since it was founded in 1969 as an outlet for far left, countercultural bande dessinée [comics] and critique....
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Ciro Incoronato
Issue 163
In his later writings, Althusser brings to light a repressed materialistic current in Western philosophy, ranging from Epicurus to Heidegger and Derrida. In this article, I argue that the comparison...
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Agnès Disson, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 123
“L’Hypothèse du compact” is the title of a text by the poet Jacques Roubaud that appeared in the first issue of the Revue de Littérature Générale in 1995, edited at...
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Ada Smailbegović
Issue 166
...in this neighborhood,1 untethered from it now even in the most remote narrative sense for more than ten years, and yet I have come to see the trees more than...
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Peggy Kamuf
Issue 134
...it come, the unexpected world, where all will have come and gone, again, an utterly changed world, not the same and yet still abiding, still awaiting, still bearing what is...
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Liran Razinsky
Issue 144
This paper explores the autobiographical desire for a complete, comprehensive recording of a life. As long ago as 1762, Diderot wrote in a letter to his love, Sophie Volland: How...
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Anthony Uhlmann
Issue 104
Working from a detailed diary Beckett wrote of his thoughts on painting while travelling through Germany and visiting art galleries before World War II, and directed by comments made by...
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Allyson Field
Issue 90
...their artistic and political endeavors, reaching its apex during the events of May 1968. Détournement comprises both an aesthetic and political critique. The technique is defined by Guy Debord and...
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Rita Charon
Issue 159
Life-writing combines, collates, or colludes many lives into one text. No work of fiction, biography, poetry, drama, memoir, journaling, blogging, or autobiography—all of them life-writing—does not do this, either blatantly...
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Eran Dorfman
Issue 144
...said, ‘you shall examine’” (320d). So Epimetheus distributed to each animal qualities according to a principle of equilibrium and compensation, each becoming either swift or strong, skilled or large, and...
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Matthew Chrulew
Issue 134
...case, style. He takes as a prominent example the revolutionary transformation from princely menagerie to public zoological garden, as well as Carl Hagenbeck’s subsequent “revolution” in zoo design, which inaugurate,...
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Paul Patton
Issue 134
...pace that allows not only for frequent mention of things to be discussed (for example, that the reason of the strongest is always the best), but also for looping back...
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David Wills
Issue 134
...a writing that attempts to address what we call current events, particularly an academic writing—as distinct, for example, from journalistic writing—whose rhythms of composition and publication obey particular protocols and...
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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 166
...consciously on this ‘illusory writing’ and noticed that when it tended to combine rhythmically with itself, a second illusion was born: the image of something vague, often biological and naturalistic....
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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 103
...approaches to various objects of analysis (from aesthetics and literature to politics and science): Alain Badiou, Vincent Descombes, François Jullien, Jean-Luc Nancy, for example. Among them, Jacques Rancière occupies a...
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Steven Winspur
Issue 101
Philippe Met’s study begins with an important insight into twentieth-century poetry: namely, that many post-surrealist French poets did not compose works around images but instead around what Michel Leiris called...
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Marc Lapprand
Issue 96
...(and Without) Constraints,” details about the genesis of this particular genre along with the so-called self-defining poem, which is itself a metro poem. I would like to examine this new...