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Grégory Chatonsky
Issue 160
This text was co-written with an artificial intelligence (AI). This so-called author wrote a sentence, then the software continued, and so on, each influencing the other, completing each other. Another...
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Bryan Counter
Issue 153
...By employing Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism, Gernot Böhme’s discussion of a “new aesthetics” that can account for atmosphere, and Hannah Freed-Thall’s recent Spoiled Distinctions, this article examines the interconnection of...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 106
...of the Communist Manifesto) and the ghosts of Marx (broadly, what Derrida means by the “legacy” of Marx, as the constant returns of a kind of spectre in the midst...
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Jan Baetens
Issue 124
The study of narrative in comics (which I will use as a general term covering both mainstream comics and more highbrow graphic novels) has often been a mere copy of...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 116
...individual freedom, and communal life in the future? Toward this end, Stoekl explores several related strands of Bataille’s thought on energy, religion, ethics, and community in light of contemporary culture....
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Denis M. Provencher
Issue 105
In his latest book, Lawrence Schehr returns to the canon of French realism to examine discourses of alterity—what he defines as “the other” or “the previously unrepresented”—in the works of...
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Denis Mellier, Charles La Via
Issue 147
From the fantastic inscribed on bodies, frightening as well as suffering bodies, and cinematic technologies inventing new spectacular forms of these bodies, a history of the one based on the...
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Ranjan Ghosh
Issue 127
...of nature? Is living with/in nature all about encountering the spectre of the “unborn”—those who will come after us and who in some sense now must command the unfolding of...
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Matthew B. Smith
Issue 150
Rachel Galvin’s News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 is a focused and forceful study of six major modernist poets who crafted similar styles in response to WWII and the Spanish...
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Jean-Philippe Mathy
Issue 135
...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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Kir Kuiken
Issue 148
...and Community,” attempts to uncover a theory of the reject in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship, in Deleuze’s thinking about community (specifically his conception of “nomadology”) and in several of Cixous’s...
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Matthew Scully
Issue 148
...of the new” (1). Citing the familiar maxim of Ezra Pound, “make it new,” Wasser locates in the problem of novelty the problem of modern art as such. Modernity inherits...
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Nathalie Rachlin, Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 133
...the French Resistance to the Nazi Occupation and to rise to the defense of freedom, democracy and social justice, the values for which his generation fought so valiantly. Almost a...
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Issue 146
Stone hurts—and not simply because rocks so easily become missiles. The lithic offers a blunt challenge to our belief that humans matter. Homo sapiens are a species perhaps 200,000 years...
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Mathew Abbott
Issue 130
...hall of mirrors, or quasi-Derridean free play of significations: if the opening sequence of this film is an example of “intertextuality,” it is not because Kiarostami is spruiking some pop...
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Peter De Bolla
Issue 109
...mathesis of modernity. There is a moment, a precise point at which this shift becomes visible, stabilizing the slow-moving plate tectonics of epistemological contest in a discursive daguerreotype whose silvered...
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Ginette Michaud
Issue 106
...the philosophical and political reflections of Jean-Luc Nancy, especially his analysis of the disjointed articulation of the cum in community1 (community without communitarianism, exposed, shared, held in common) and his...
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Mark Bonta
Issue 121
Though it has been claimed that Deleuze sought to delink his thought from all religion (Bryden), a close examination of his major writings, as well as his collaborative work with...
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Samantha MacBride
Issue 116
In Manhattan’s Union Square, residents queue patiently, holding unwanted computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, cables, and monitors. The New York City Department of Sanitation, charged with managing 3.5 million tons...
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John Mowitt
Issue 152
...the articulation between racial difference and sound by probing the now common association of color and noise, for example, the “pink” noise routinely used as a sleep aid. Despite the...
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Richard Turner
Issue 146
...object from an ordinary rock to a viewing stone that invites close examination and perhaps contemplation. In this essay, I will examine the act of “re-grounding” rocks that have been...
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Joshua Delpech-Ramey
Issue 122
...those of a modern comedy. Beckett—whose theater, when “completed” correctly, is truly hilarious—was well aware of this. (75) Now of course the comedy Badiou has in mind here is not...
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Éric Trudel
Issue 166
...meant to be understood as an obstacle: “That is ‘rough poetry’: when one literally bumps against a tree” (Trouver ici 27).2 As if the promise of the preposition toward was...
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Denis M. Provencher
Issue 112
In his new book, Lawrence Schehr examines the portrayals of “overtly gay male characters having social and often sexual relations with one another” (1) in French narratives from the first...
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Kenneth Surin
Issue 161
...capital, a notion derived from Pierre Bourdieu; and “networks of feeling” (5n), a term the author borrowed from Raymond Williams. Demers observes, for example, that there was a relay or...
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Daveeda Goldberg
Issue 150
...such things by a self-reflective and self-parodic Jewish comedy writer. So, it’s a question that antisemites may imagine Jews to ask, and one that Jews may imagine antisemites imagine Jews...
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Melanie Sehgal
Issue 145
“Aesthetics” is not a concern that figures prominently in Isabelle Stengers’s work and it is not difficult to find the reasons why. Reading the discipline of aesthetics through a historical...
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Mitchell Kerley
Issue 145
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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Suzanne Nash
Issue 143
Pierre-Alain Tilliette is a Breton writer, who lives with his family in Paris, where he is Conservateur des fonds étrangers at the Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville. The tragi-comic inventiveness...
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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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Tom Conley
Issue 118
In our day a child preparing for a spelling bee might be prone to confuse an anecdote with an antidote. The two words have such a similar ring that the...
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Andrea Loselle
Issue 118
In our day a child preparing for a spelling bee might be prone to confuse an anecdote with an antidote. The two words have such a similar ring that the...
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Kasper Lysemose
Issue 139
...it about determining the scope or content of the question as a preparation to such an answer. It is simply about posing the question. If anything is done in Heidegger’s...
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Paul A. Harris
Issue 140
...is intensely to inhabit that preposition with, to move from solitary individuations to ecosystems, environments, shared agencies, and companionate properties” (11-12). This conjoining of human and stone produces a “monstrous...
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Simone Drichel
Issue 132
...abiding by religious teachings, or adopting preposterous moralities. Or punishing/exploiting other people’s vulnerabilities or ideologies, or believing that we are exceptional creations rather than just another species of animal” (144)....
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Antonio Negri, Max Henninger
Issue 112
...World War, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno published Dialectic of Enlightenment, a new critical model emerged, as singular as it was reproducible, both different and capable of being repeated....
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 166
On July 12, 2022, a van caught fire on a small road, the “piste 214,” that winds through the pine forest towards the beach south of La Teste. After several...
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Michael A. Chaney
Issue 143
...and Baton Rouge to “a collapse of the social order.” Clarke opined that “many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcends peaceful protest and violates...
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Bruno Chaouat
Issue 138
...dedicated to reading pedagogy and to the pedagogy of reading. Hence, for example, the surprise of finding the theory that the Nouveau Roman and structuralism (Roland Barthes included) are new...
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Marie-Pascale Huglo, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 111
In the cartography of the contemporary French novel, Lydie Salvayre’s oeuvre occupies a place apart—she affirms herself with a singular freedom of tone and a refusal of the serious. The...
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Paul Prudence
Issue 146
...new kinds of narratives. By reinterpreting Caillois’s stones in relation to the aesthetics of digital simulation, algorithmic visualization can be used as decryption device to decode and unravel new fictions....
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Dominique Jullien
Issue 111
...him for his second novel, Cherokee, has begun to familiarize the public with his work, Jean Echenoz is still a new name in contemporary French fiction. No critical studies are...
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Réal Fillion
Issue 142
Jacques Rancière, it seems to me, is right: politics are rare (Rancière 1999; May 2008). Democratic political action makes manifest the part that has no part—not as a protest against...
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Philip G. Hadlock
Issue 111
...of the twentieth century in France produced numerous emblems of this craving to develop more powerful machines, to observe them at work, and to interact with them in new ways:...
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Guy Zimmerman
Issue 151
...of poststructuralist thought. In Ashes to Ashes, for example, the playwright deploys the fundamental form-generating characteristics of the theatre space itself in this contest against the totalizing schemata of neoliberalism....
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Juliane Werner
Issue 165
...that inhabit its spaces. This article addresses the latest configuration of this phenomenon, examining a selection of twenty-first century novels (among them Isabelle Sorente’s 180 jours, Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn...
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Michael Sheringham
Issue 123
This article focuses on Alferi’s second book of poetry, Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif, published in 1992. It is a companion piece to my article, “Pierre Alferi and the...
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Carla Calargé, Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 113
...are able to invent a common, heretofore unspoken language. These exchanges produce a new subject position, a new language and a new type of engagement which, although not necessarily devoid...
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Marcel Hénaff, Roxanne Lapidus, Robert Doran
Issue 115
It seems generally accepted that the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington mark the beginning of an era of a new kind of violence. We are...