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Chris Bongie
Issue 84
...theorists eager to dissociate themselves from the sort of existential complicities that were an inevitable result of colonial practice, if not of segregationist colonial theory, all too easily fell prey....
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Fran Bartkowski
Issue 83
Agamben, Giorgio. The Coming Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Pp. 108. What reviewing this text makes me want to do is offer up samples of its wisdom and...
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Isabelle Stengers
Issue 145
...Gilles Deleuze’s proposition about how to characterize the work of a philosopher. I am most grateful to Martin Savransky and those who accepted his invitation because, in order to obtain...
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Lydie Salvayre, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 104
Since we have in common, Monsieur, the fact of having been persecuted—you by the great Louis, the false scientists and the Jesuits, me by my wife, who never found satisfaction...
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Gunter Gebauer, Jennifer Marston William
Issue 93
...obtained at a high price: intellectual construction ignores everything that constitutes society–social practice, power, actions of social agents, their habitus, their position, strategies, and the internal complexities of society itself....
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Xavier Guchet, Mark Hayward
Issue 129
...theses, to the question of understanding why Simondon dedicated himself in the 1950s to researching the technical object and, more specifically, industrial machinery, while at the same time developing a...
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Geoffrey R. Hope
Issue 101
...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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Eric Méchoulan
Issue 84
...order of the cosmos (and thus on the authority of a priest-king whose testimony is backed by competence and social position), “events” must be democratically validated. But how to avoid...
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David F. Bell
Issue 83
Remarks on Communication Theory In L’Utopie de la communication, Philippe Breton traces the origin and development of the notion of communication that began in earnest with the growth of cybernetics...
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Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
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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Franc Schuerewegen, David F. Bell
Issue 105
Are there any shepherds left in America? I suppose you have replaced them with computers or robots. It’s less expensive and cleaner. Jules Verne would have liked to live in...
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Carrie La Seur
Issue 87
...as a non-philosopher, although the Sorbonne examiners who made her second to Jean-Paul Sartre called her “the true philosopher” of the two. French encyclopedias call her Sartre’s disciple, and feminists...
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Jacques Dubois, Meaghan Emery, Pamela V. Sing
Issue 93
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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A.J. Nocek
Issue 145
...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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Mary Jean Green
Issue 85
...somewhat enigmatically announces her challenge to longstanding stereotypes about the settlement of New France, stereotypes that have been accepted without question by at least those of us not already immersed...
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David Herman
Issue 86
...sources (from The New York Times Book Review to The Nation) attest to the power of Eagleton’s story about literary theory and to the skill and persuasiveness with which he...
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Larson Powell
Issue 125
...borrowings from cybernetics, or Friedrich Kittler’s histories of technology have remained exceptional; a great many humanities scholars still prefer a now very conventional culturalism. Since references to science and mathematics...
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Fara Rabenarivo
Issue 116
...minded work in the field. In Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Brendan Bartley and Duncan Fuller aim to elucidate the field’s theoretical underpinnings...
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I.M. Lithic
Issue 160
...isn’t mimicking ‘in’ things, isn’t gimmicking slick tricks. It isn’t sticky with insipid kitsch; it’s minting first citings, glinting with birth-writings. This imprint isn’t stifling, it isn’t middling. It isn’t...
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Eric Méchoulan, Angela Carr
Issue 138
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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Denis Hollier, Richard Joseph Golsan, Ruth Larson
Issue 102
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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Sue-Ellen Case
Issue 98/99
...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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Odile Passot, Paul Lafarge
Issue 90
...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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Michelle Grangaud, Jordan Stump
Issue 96
...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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Freddie Rokem
Issue 98/99
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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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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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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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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Richard House
Issue 92
...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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Marco Caracciolo
Issue 168
...in which contemporary fiction imagines and negotiates the ambiguity of digital play. Building on Brian Sutton-Smith’s play theory, I examine how the literary imagination invokes, combines, and opposes many 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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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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Betsy Fleche
Issue 89
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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Ann Smock
Issue 101
...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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Adilifu Nama
Issue 160
...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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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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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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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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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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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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Robert F. Barsky
Issue 93
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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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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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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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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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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Steven Maras
Issue 85
Introduction IN HIS COMMENTARIES ON BERGSON, DELEUZE REITERATES that a key task for philosophy is the stating and creation of problems (Bergsonism 14). In the discussion of his method, Bergson...