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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...
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David F. Bell
Issue 103
...gave rise in 1793, for example, did not simply enroll a large number of the new citizens of the republic into its military activities, it effectively sent those republican soldiers...
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Rebecca Pulju
Issue 103
...be young and female in France. Through her examination of women’s and girl’s fashion magazines, popular novels and films, and the new phenomenon of the public opinion poll, Weiner traces...
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Gregg Lambert
Issue 100
...about it. “Bad Faith”: Likewise, there are questions that are posed only to avoid asking other questions; for example, in intimate relationships, we talk around the question we really want...
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Christopher Norris
Issue 100
...out (wrongly, I argued) in agreement with the anti-realist position. Most likely this was why the piece went in, or perhaps just as a striking example of how erstwhile literary...
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Peter Schwenger
Issue 100
...an idea quite different from any one of its components. The present essay is no exception to this rule. It assembles itself out of bits and pieces of Freud, Piaget,...
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Haun Saussy
Issue 100
That honored contributor to the nineteenth-century disciplines of historical and comparative philology and inventor of such twentieth-century ones as semiotics and structural linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure, is often cast as...
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Natalia Fedorova
Issue 169
...Touch My Touch, and David Bowen’s Tele-present Wind, it examines how mechanical and digital interfaces translate remote actions into local sensory experiences. This reversed space creates a closed sensorium that...
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Josette Feral
Issue 98/99
...and psychoanalysis (to name but a few), where the term is used either metaphorically or actually resorted to as an operative concept. However, a closer examination reveals that it is...
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Marvin A. Carlson
Issue 98/99
...traditionally theater theorists have most commonly looked to the work of literary theorists or philosophers for inspiration, concepts, and analytic strategies, today they are much more likely to look to...
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David Bordwell
Issue 97
...of that labyrinth converge: for example, you come to this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another my friend. (125) Ts’ui Pen did...
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Edward Branigan
Issue 97
I would like to examine what is “nearly true.” This phrase is not meant to characterize David Bordwell’s exceptional essay, “Film Futures,” which I would summarize with Orson Welles’s film...
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Janette Bayles
Issue 97
...deeply divided over issues of immigration and cultural diversity, Elizabeth Ezra invites the reader to examine the legacy of interwar French colonialism–specifically, its “colonial unconscious”–which, she argues, continues to shape...
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Sonja Boon
Issue 132
Using Hélène Cixous’s three-legged dog, a recurring trope in her book The Day I Wasn’t There, I will consider what Cixous’s philosophy might offer to the articulation of a politics...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 146
Selections from Caillois’s renowned mineral collection are paired with passages from his early book The Writings of Stones. This gallery provides a rich backdrop for reading the excerpts from Caillois’s...
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Charles F. Altieri
Issue 131
...and acts of expression that display states of mind and feeling but do not describe them. My full case will require a book. That is good news for me but...
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 131
...in English-Language Narrative Discourse from 700 A.D. to the present” (vii). Through comparison or contrast, many of its observations on character depiction and on the “developmental trajectories” of stories can...
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Yves Citton
Issue 130
...articles and books are made to be read (by a maximum of people), whereas we should accept the fact that they are mostly made to be written—independently of who does...
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Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Mark Hayward, Arne De Boever
Issue 129
In this essay, I want to begin a dialogue with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s book Technics and Time. Stiegler is internationally known as the inheritor of another French philosopher...
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Roland Boer
Issue 129
...of Job (2009), a detailed philosophical exegesis of the “marvelous” biblical book of Job.Two features of Negri’s analysis stand out: the oppositions of kairós and ákairos, and measure and immeasure....
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Chris Crews
Issue 159
...Most readers are likely familiar with some version of the Anthropocene by now, and its usage in these books (with a few exceptions) follows a common refrain in the humanities...
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Kamil Lipiński
Issue 158
In Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Ethnography, Paolo Magagnoli has undertaken the complex task of linking different aesthetic contexts through a study of experimental documentary audiovisual projects, treating...
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Warren Motte
Issue 149
In the early pages of this study, Jean-Jacques Thomas confesses that it was not his intention to write a book on Perec. Rather, he was interested in the manner in...
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Patricia Pisters
Issue 146
On my desk, next to my laptop, a small piece of lapis lazuli. My eye is captured by the intense blue from its most important component, the mineral lazurite. The...
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Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 146
On November 15th, one week after the results of the 2016 US presidential election were known to all, Timothy Snyder, a distinguished historian of Modern Europe, took to his Facebook...
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Melanie Sehgal
Issue 145
...“the invention of modern science” described by Stengers in her seminal book with just this title. Understood in this historical sense as the philosophical discipline founded by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten...
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Allan Antliff
Issue 143
...of graphic artist Kevin Pyle, an American-born artist with a substantive body of illustrated books and comics addressing a myriad of issues. I am interested in how Pyle undermines and...
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Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag
Issue 142
Gabriel Rockhill’s ambitious book responds to an acute need to re-think the relationships between aesthetics and politics. Radical History and the Politics of Art is an innovative, interdisciplinary attempt at...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 140
In this landmark book, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen combines and culminates the two strands of his substantial scholarly work: ecology and Medieval and Early Modern studies. Stone is ambitiously synthetic and...
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Robert S. Lehman
Issue 139
In the autumn of 1798, Immanuel Kant published what was (excluding lecture notes) his final work, The Conflict of the Faculties. The latter comprises three essays, which ostensibly address the...
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Karin Littau
Issue 138
...reel they show towers at various stages of (de)composition. The images come from other gigantic installations Kiefer created, including the architectural landscape of concrete towers molded from shipping containers at...