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Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary
...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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Journal Supplement: breathe
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Introduction: Tree
...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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Will This Too Have Been a Tree? Biblical and Biological Trees of Life-Science
...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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Global Terror, Global Vengeance?
...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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France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters (review)
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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“From Whose Face”: Virginia Woolf and the Impossible Task of Criticism
...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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The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History (review)
...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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Droll Lectures
...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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Post-Exoticism, or Internal Literatures
...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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The Invention of “Theatricality”: Rereading Bernard Dort and Roland Barthes
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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Digital Baroque: Via Viola or the Passage of Theatricality
...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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Jouet Revisited: Baduli dejoue
...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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Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts
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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Modernism, History and the First World War (review)
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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Coming Too Late: Freud, Belatedness, and Existential Trauma
...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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Vomiting on New Friends: Charlie Hebdo and the Legacy of Anarchic Black Humor in French Comics
...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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“A Surprising Comparison”: Althusser’s Interpretation of Epicurus and Heidegger
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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Pierre Alferi: Compressing and Disconnecting
“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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“Going, coming back, turning around”: Arrival(s) at the Trees as Attunement to Ecological Change
...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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Teleiopoetic World
...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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Everything: Totality and Self-Representation, from Past to Present
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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Image and Intuition in Beckett’s Film
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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Hurlements en faveur de Sade : The Negation and Surpassing of “Discrepant Cinema”
...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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Writing our Lives to Live Them: The Cognitive Forms of a Narrative Medicine
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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Titanic Times: Epimetheus and Prometheus between Différance and Deferred Action
...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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“An art of both caring and locking up”: Biopolitical Thresholds in the Zoological Garden
...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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Sovereignty Conditioned and Unconditioned
...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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Drone Penalty
...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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Bernard Réquichot, Writing Tree
...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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Introduction: On the Edges of Jacques Ranciere
...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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Formules de la poesie: Etudes sur Ponge, Leiris, Char et Du Bouchet (review)
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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Jacques Jouet, Metro Poet
...(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...
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Interpreting Intouchables: Competing Transnationalisms in Contemporary French Cinema
...type of odd couple is common in French farce (as in Hollywood buddy comedies), the film’s strangely inscrutable title gives pause. Lacking an article in French, intouchables becomes a floating...
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The Story of the Raven and the Robot*
The aim of this paper is to study the relationship of companion robots to the uncanny, using popular depictions of these robots. I start by presenting a few companion robots...
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The Commotion of Souls
...last time? No, he says, he didn’t. I cajole and bribe, and keep hoping that a day will come when he will remember how he felt about it last week....
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Come Rain or Shine
Lui: So, Mr. Scholar-Critic, you say you’ve lost interest in the usual questions of your discipline? Bravo, I’m all for being undisciplined—but tell me then, what are the questions that...
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Commentary: The Le Pen Moment
...a guitar case containing a .22 rifle he had recently purchased. The day before, on the British neo-Nazi website Combat 18 (18 signifying AH, the first and eighth letters of...
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From Interests to Inter-esse: Jean-Luc Nancy on Deglobalization and Sovereignty
...hot issues are touched upon philosophically by Nancy’s thesis of “l’être-à-soi du peuple, son unité comme communauté ou comme corps social (…) comme inatteignable autant que nécessaire” (La démocratie à...
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Theatricality: From Oral Traditions to Televised “Realities”
Any concept of theatricality should be based upon the structural essentials of the specific cultural production of theater, in its most comprehensive sense. Theater is a type of social communication...
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Love in the Time of Capital
This essay begins with Alain Badiou’s book, In Praise of Love, and ends with Jean-Luc Godard’s film of the same title. Between these narrative poles and drawing on a web...
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À belles mains. Livre surréaliste-Livre d’artiste. Mélusine ed. by Andrea Oberhuber (review)
This issue of Mélusine pursues the research initiated in 1982 on the surrealist book, without giving the last word on such a complex subject. Demonstrating erudition worthy of La Revue...
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Journeys through the Offset World: Global Travel Narratives and Environmental Crisis
...them public. The slogan “Think globally, act locally,” coined by René Dubos in 1970, similarly summed up environmentalists’ commitment to a vision of planetary connectedness, as did Kenneth Boulding and...
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Is Theory Good for the Jews? French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism by Bruno Chaouat (review)
“Is X good for the Jews?” This is the formula Bruno Chaouat borrows for the title of his recent book. It’s a cliché of a question, one that suggests notes...
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News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 by Rachel Galvin (review)
...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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Primal Weaving: Structure and Meaning in Language and Architecture
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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The Problem of Wild Minds: Knowing Animals in Grizzly Man and Ming of Harlem
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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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing by Bogost, Ian (review)
...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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Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique by Nathan Brown (review)
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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The Sylvan Ghosts of Class Mobility
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...