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Along the Fold
Fully cognizant that no one, not even me, needs another “My Pandemic Year” narrative, I nonetheless want to think about the pandemic-era newspaper fold and the social relations limned by...
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Clon’d, or a Note on Propagation
...philological analysis of the word “clone,” I then turn to the conceptual parallels between vegetative reproduction and linguistic reproduction. Through a comparison between the clone and the double, I argue,...
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Preview: The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin
SubStance@Work, a peer-reviewed imprint of SubStance, Inc., is a series comprised of born-digital works that integrate non-linear structure and multimedia content in innovative theoretical explorations. New works are previewed in...
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Ă belles mains. Livre surrĂ©aliste-Livre d’artiste. MĂ©lusine ed. by Andrea Oberhuber (review)
...without giving the last word on such a complex subject. Demonstrating erudition worthy of La Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France, the contributors propose new ideas and points of view....
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The Limits of Vococentrism: Chris Marker, Hans Richter and the Essay Film
...of three friends, artists and filmmakers: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, though Georges Franju is sometimes included in the coterie.The group has significant overlap with the French New...
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Liban. MĂ©moires fragmentĂ©es dâune guerre obsĂ©dante: LâanamnĂšse dans la production Culturelle francophone (2000â2015) by Carla CalargĂ© (review)
...act of recalling – and relearning – that which one once knew, but forgot; it is the retrieval of a past, now-erased knowledge. In Christian thought, anamnesis is the ritualistic...
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Baudelaire and the Literary Fabrication of the Poor
...onward, interacts with an emerging mass public, whether one thinks of Dickens’ Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress (1837–39), the Newgate novels, Eugène Sue’s likewise widely popular Les mystères...
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Pre-Political Topology Emerging from Biotechnologyâs Secretions
From a genealogical point of view, biotechnologies may bring a new epistemological perspective on what can possibly emerge from the movement of scientific research itself. Nevertheless, before analyzing any scientific...
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Michel Serresâ Great Story: From Biosemiotics to Econarratology
...and calls of the natural world.1 To date, the Anglophone reception of this complex and varied oeuvre has been slender to the point of emaciation, but one area where he...
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Alien Phenomenology, or What Itâs 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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Philosophy as Translation
...last century, embodies a polyphonic, complex cognitive enterprise which includes both original uses of language and sophisticated patterns of moral reflection. Modern literature thus represents a new model of paradigmatic...
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Translatio and Remediation: Aby Warburg, Image Migration and Photographic Reproduction
...medium for new modes of research. The organization of the library aimed to orient scholars to the modalities of the “afterlife” of the representations and gestures associated with pathos that...
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âA row of screaming Russian dollsâ: Escaping the Panopticon in David Mitchellâs number9dream
...industry invigorated – instruction diffused – public burthens lightened […] all by a simple idea in Architecture!” (31). Bentham’s ‘simple idea’ was the panopticon, a new architectural concept and principles...
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Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society by Valérie K. Orlando (review)
...occurred in Morocco’s society since 1999, that is, after the death of King Hassan II and the end of what is commonly referred to as the “Lead Years,” an era...
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An Actor of the Street: Events, Agencies, and Gatherings
Beginning with the mid-century rise of computing, the practice of tracking has relied on observational experts installed in the control rooms of military and intelligence operations—specialists skilled in the detection...
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Archiving in the Age of Digital Conversion: Notes for a Politics of “Remains”
Over the last few decades, the public institutions responsible for archiving have been confronted with new challenges arising from electronic communication. Nevertheless, as a specialist in such national institutions has...
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Introduction: Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory
This special issue assembles an international group of scholars to explore emerging connections between comics studies and narrative theory—two fields which, until the last five to ten years, have developed...
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The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (review)
...interdisciplinary study that embodies an extraordinary synthesis, being the first to draw together France’s experiences in colonization, culture, Africa, Europe, the New World and, most importantly, the principal motors of...
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Spiritual Politics After Deleuze: Introduction
Religious discourse now permeates the theoretical humanities. At least since Jacques Derrida’s insistence upon complex connections between deconstruction and negative theology, there has been an onslaught of writing connecting the...
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Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade: Variations modernes sur les Mille et Une Nuits (review)
...century. Dominique Jullien’s new book Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade explores the fertile territory of modern rewritings of the Nights, focusing on the French-language tradition (from Restif de la Bretonne to...
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Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (review)
...it comes to the Enlightenment, as Elena Russo’s book shows, few concepts are as revealing as the notion of taste. While Russo is obviously not the first scholar to survey...
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Introduction: Dismantling the Man-Machine*
...and Koen Vermeir. It ran for several years. The idea was to meet about once a month and invite scholars from various disciplines around a common machine, or at least...
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The TV-Box: Reconsidering a Lost Television Set, Santa Claus and the Ants
...periodization). To write the history of any given medium and separate it into periods, one must also select the components “that gathered together as a way of giving ‘birth’ to...
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Divinatory Chances
Two issues for Deleuze’s thought converge in its encounter with combinatorial divination: (1) the problem of a philosophical affirmation of the “whole of chance” or of “all chance in a...
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Paris Ă lâimproviste: Jacques RĂ©da, Jazz, and Sub-Urban Beauty
Jacques Réda is best known as a poet of place, remarkable precisely for his interest in the unremarkable and his compelling descriptions of nondescript places, the kind that most of...
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Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution by Peter Swirski, and: Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory by Peter Swirski (review)
Well yes—Swirski is one of those critics who think that the relativistic postmodernism and social constructivism in much of literary studies has come to a dead end. While I did...
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Scenes in a Library: Alain Resnais and Toute la mémoire du monde
...mémoire du monde (All the World’s Memory) among the eight short subjects he directed before completing his first feature-length fiction film, Hiroshima mon amour, in 1959. In particular, I consider...
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Life Writing, Identity, and the Classroom: Perspectives from Social and Educational Psychology
The attractiveness of life writings stems from its promise of exceptional intimacy with a writer. Yet that intimacy can come at a cost, especially in relation to writers from marginalized...
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Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity ed. by Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns, and Mark Sprevak (review)
Patrick Colm Hogan announced in 2002 that “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles have come to dominate what are arguably the most intellectually exciting academic fields today” (1). Today, what dominates...
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La conversation transatlantique: Les échanges franco-américains en poésie depuis 1968 by Abigail Lang (review)
...records, and documents the challenging theoretical, national, and literary questions that both French and American poetries of this period address. Lang’s book is composed of an approximately thirty-page introduction, followed...
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Less Than One Language: Typographic Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction
What comes after the language model of literary history? This essay considers that question by turning to works of contemporary fiction that operate at the edges of our most dominant...
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Soundscape and Power
In Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq composes a soundscape as a series of spatial events and material affects. He snatches it from “the smoke and the suburbs of Charleville”...
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Adrift: Havarie, an Acousmatic Film by Philip Scheffner
My aim in this essay is to offer a reading of the documentary Havarie (2016), a film by Philip Scheffner that is essentially based on complex and unusual relationship and...
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Politics and Philosophy in the Red Years: Badiou, Sartre, Althusser and the Problematic of Suture
This essay approaches Alain Badiou’s theoretical production during the period of militant fury commenced by May ‘68 in terms of his conflicted relationship to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Badiou’s...
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Unspeakable Histories: Film and the Experience of Catastrophe by William Guynn, and: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth-Century by Timothy Snyder (review)
...message, which captured the sense of urgency and foreboding that was palpable across large swaths of the land, instantly went viral. In a preface to comments informed by deep knowledge...
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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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To Draw or Not to Draw: Alberto Breccia and the Ethos of Reading
It is not often that reading—let alone the reading of comics—is identified as a “need,” a function of basic physical “survival”: In Argentina, we were forced, as a question of...
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Radical History and the Politics of Art by Gabriel Rockhill (review)
...common sense trinity—what is art? what is politics? what is their relation?” and accept fully the idea that these concepts have no determinable, transhistorical essence (3). They are always in...
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Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just (review)
...first of which is an analysis of the historical and political setting in France. The second, larger axis comprises a theoretical exploration of language’s indeterminate nature, the relationship between literary...
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Introduction: Film and / as Ethics
...that intersect with, without being reducible to, philosophical inquiry. Inspired by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell, many theorists are now engaged in what has come to be...
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The Syndrome of the Thermometer: Two Machines for Reading Thoughts
...more likely, he just wants to make sure that he will be able to read the room temperature next time he comes. He is afraid to be too hot. He...
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Kristeva, Stoicism, and the âTrue Life of Interpretationsâ
The repertory of theories, practices, and stories associated with Greek and Roman Stoicism fills a significant compartment in the Western philosophical archive, the meaning and value of which are ceaselessly...
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Letters for the Blind
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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Playing with Fire-Space: Site-Specific Placement and the Techno-pharmacology of Maria Irene Fornesâs Mud
Many who write about the playwright Maria Irene Fornes’s work comment with reverence about the experience of watching those productions she herself directed. Managing somehow to combine frank depictions of...
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Posing Sex: Prospects for a Perceptual Ethics
Sexuality and sexual desire remain tantalizing conundrums for the universalizing intellect, desirous of comprehending the human condition even in its most unconditional manifestations. The representation of sexuality in the history...
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Intermediality in the Age of Global Media Networks â Including Eleven Theses on its Provocative Power for the Concepts of âConvergence,â âTransmedia Storytellingâ and âActor Network Theoryâ
...be allegory […]. (Coleridge 33) In the community of scholars of intermedia research, the above quoted citation is commonly regarded as Coleridge’s coining of the term “intermedium” or “intermediality” (Higgins)....
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Introduction: Translation Matters
...in the transnational circulation of ideas and cultural productions in a global cultural context. Yet translation – and the untranslatability it elicits and sometimes implies – has come to embody...
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Delay, Estrangement, Loss: The Meanings of Translation in Claude Lanzmannâs Shoah (1985)
The common denominator of any translation is delay: this delay is a matter of time and space, a temporal displacement (which is one of the ways of defining “translation”), a...
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Posthuman Temporality: Mitchellâs Ghostwritten
...Time Heidegger offers a way of coming to understand the human as temporally fixed as both futural and as a site of an aporetic historicality: in other words Being comes...