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From Music to Literature
...were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verse and also wrote literature”! As sometimes happens, this is a clever blooper indeed, which...
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Digitizing the Racialized Body or The Politics of Universal Address
...as social actors: as it becomes increasingly mediated by the communication networks of the new media, interpellation comes to materialize a “self that is no longer a subject since it...
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Intermediality: An Introduction to the Arts of Transmission
Intermediality has become a fashionable concept: it appears whenever we speak about what we once referred to easily as the medium or media, of systems and apparatuses, mises en scène...
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Pierre Bourdieu and Literature
Bourdieu’s thought is disturbing. Provocative. Scandalous even, at least for those who do not easily tolerate the unmitigated truth about the social. Nonetheless his ideas, among the most important and...
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On the Risk of Gaia for an Ecology of Practices
...or concepts that easily encapsulates her work. Nevertheless, in recent years concepts such as “cosmopolitics” and the “ecology of practices” have gained a special currency in the context of humanities...
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Politics and Commonality of Sensation from a Reading of Merleau-Ponty
...and orients the relation between sensation, politics and the body. In addition, the above example will constitute a thought experiment that will allow us to test our hypothesis that links...
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Postcolonial Anarchographics: Re-drawing History in the Trantraal Brothers’ Crossroads
Focusing on visual and textual representations of squatting and women’s resistances against apartheid in the comic book series Crossroads (2014-2016), this article examines how graphic history may enable a more...
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Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage by Herbert Lindenberger
Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 364. ISBN 0-8047-3104-7 (cloth). Having already examined in Opera: the “Extravagant Art” (1984)...
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Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary by Leslie Hill
Hill, Leslie. Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary. London and New York. Routledge. 1997. ISBN 0-415-09174-8. $24.99. 302 pages. There are many reasons to study Blanchot. Not least among them is that his...
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L’ile deserte et autres textes (review)
With the new volume edited by David Lapoujade entitled L’île déserte et autres textes, Deleuze studies now has a major new work to discover. The volume contains previously unedited texts...
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A Diary, Some Poems (French irregular plural)
...diary, which is to say, ideally, an entire lifetime. In preparation for this long journey, he arms himself with a strange sort of compass, composed of the assemblage of a...
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The Art of Survival: The Translation of Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin is experiencing a startling new life. The translation project at Harvard University Press intends to make Benjamin’s writings more accessible to English-speaking readers, while many scholars know Benjamin...
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Modern Visual Poetry (review)
...and holopoems which, as the 20th century drew to a close, you could access easily on UbuWeb. It takes in the exuberant experiments of the Italian Futurists, the “ascetic exercises”...
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Vomiting on New Friends: Charlie Hebdo and the Legacy of Anarchic Black Humor in French Comics
...editors made a show of their irreverence towards their new supporters, mocking the way their cause was being taken up by their erstwhile political nemeses. They poked fun at conservative...
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Réflexions et menus propos d’un peintre genevois ou essai sur le beau dans les arts by Rodolphe Töpffer, Charles Grivel
...dont la photographie constitute le repoussoir. Comme le montre Charles Grivel dans sa préface, le daguerréotype apparaît comme le degré zéro de l’art, tel que le conçoit Töpffer; il est...
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Derrida’s Hamlet
...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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Witnessing Woyzeck: Theatricality and the Empowerment of the Spectator
It is comparatively easy to set up a basic model for epic theater. For practical experiments I usually picked as my example of completely simple, “natural” epic theater an incident...
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‘Pour cet état si particulier’: Disinterest and the Impersonal Resonance of Aesthetic Experience
...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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Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millennium (review)
...always liked this book, which does meet its goal of presenting “many new directions and possibilities for further research into the intricacies and potentialities of French poetry” (xxii). It does...
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Introduction: From Engagé to Indigné: French Cinema and the Crises of Globalization
...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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Residues of the 1930s
The following is a discussion of Patrick Deane, ed., History in Our Hands: A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture and Politics from the 1930s (London & New York:...
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Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for “Antiquarian” History
...by the New Criticism, have always been resisted as pure definitions of the discipline, and have survived principally by being allowed into the company of other and wider-ranging interpretive conventions,...
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Portrait of Guy Debord as a Young Libertine
...He cares little whether the common reader understands: “Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential,” he writes in Commentary on the Society of...
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Post-Exoticism, or Internal Literatures
...and outside proclaimed by the post-exotic novelists can easily appear as the expression of an awareness, ever-clearer and more painful, of the schism between, on the one hand, the writer...
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Feeling Stone
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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The Time of Law: Eighteenth-Century Speculations
...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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The Immorality of Waste: Depression-Era Perspectives in the Digital Age
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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Toward a Tree
...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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Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, Postsustainability (review)
...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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The Encyclopedia Complex: Contemporary Narratives of Information
...unify research programs in the sciences have put this standard of plurality to the test. The various enterprises in biology, economics, computer science, and other disciplines often grouped together under...
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Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others (review)
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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Abstraction in Comics
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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Coughin’/Coffin Air
...of wealth extraction enshrined the public ruin of Black bodies with public beatings to compel compliance, and later public lynchings to intimidate and psychologically terrorize Black folk into a forever...
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Kiarostami’s Picture Theory: Cinematic Skepticism in The Wind Will Carry Us
...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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Revisiting A New History of French Literature
R.J. Golsan: A New History of French Literature was published in 1989, when the effects of the de Man and Heidegger affairs were challenging not only the prevailing critical formalism,...
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The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Naked Body and Theories of Performance
...from the perspective of the new millennium, we can understand the hyperbolic proclamations of the body’s significance as a kind of last hurraw of the capabilities of the flesh to...
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The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form by Audrey Wasser (review)
...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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Introduction
...like a Chinese novel, he leads the regimented life of a Kung Fu master exiled in his province. He divides his time between writing, studying languages, and preparing for his...
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...the norms of traditional academic scholarship Featured Articles Dis-Sensing Video: The Illusion of Touch in Early Video Art by Lorenzo Lazzari Issue 169 Read Article L’existence prépositionnelle by Irving Goh...
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From Antidote to Anecdote: Montaigne on Dissemblance
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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The Anecdote: Introduction
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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The Technology of the Question and the Responsibility for Sense
...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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Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (review)
...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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Introduction: Reframing Vulnerability: “so obviously the problem…”?
...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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Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power by Abby E. Zanger
Abby E. Zanger. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 244 $45.00. The absolutism of Louis XIV...
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The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel by Pierre Saint-Amand, Jennifer Curtiss Gage
Saint-Amand, Pierre. The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel. Trans. Jennifer Curtiss Gage. Hanover and London: Brown University Press, 1994. Pp. 166. This short, provocative, and clearly written...
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Intellectuals on the Couch: The Sokal Hoax and Other Impostures intellectuelles
IT WOULD BE AMUSING BUT RATHER FRUITLESS to trot out once again the details of the Sokal Hoax, and to savor one more time the stances assumed by the wide...
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Literary History without Literature: Reading Practices in the Ancient World
“Literature” began, as Auden might have put it, in 1823, along with “Art” and the other shibboleths of Romantic aesthetics. The rise of “Literature” as a category is paralleled by...