Article
Florian Cord
Issue 164
...of affective intra-action that have come to be culturally coded” [Slaby et al. 5]), structures of feeling can be (re-)theorized as intermediary phenomena, where affect is gradually sedimenting or congealing...
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Iwona Janicka
Issue 164
...48] is the diametrical opposite of good science, which equates, ultimately, to creating a common world with an animal (“The Body” 124). Due to our different biosemiotic makeup, this common...
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Églantine Colon
Issue 160
...regular basis, falling in and out of love with the same wrong comrades, over and over again, and always out of sync. The loving gestures we composed were barely legible...
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Françoise Vergès
Issue 160
...Joyce. “What is the Environmental Impact Of The Mining Industry?” WorldAtlas, 25 April 2017, www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-mining-industry.html Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of spirit.” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/spirit. Kilomba, Grada. “The Mask: Remembering Slavery,...
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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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Marielle Macé, Alexis Stanley
Issue 160
...not exactly a responsibility, but something comparable to a compromise, commitment, or promise. It is a familiar tragedy that we breathe in a suffocating world and share in air polluted...
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Karin Kukkonen
Issue 124
Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics...
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Françoise Lionnet
Issue 160
...and with the community that inhabits it. Going out of the mother, I come into the air, I enter into the world, and into the community of living beings. (312)...
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Tim Ingold
Issue 160
...complementarity, pitching western naturalists into a world of bodies and indigenous animists into a world of vapors–both demi-worlds which, if only they could be combined, would make a perfect whole–I...
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Orchid Tierney
Issue 160
...compares to other years,” National Geographic, Aug. 29, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-fires-cause-deforestation-graphic-map. Accessed March 29, 2021. Choy, Timothy K. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. Duke University Press,...
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Kieran M. Murphy
Issue 160
...Guardian, 8 June 2020, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/i-cant-breathe-george-floyds-words-reverberate-oppression. Accessed 10 July 2021. Rediker, Marcus. Foreword. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott, 2018, pp....
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Rosemarie Scullion
Issue 160
...2008. Giroux, Henri. “Neoliberal Fascism and the Echoes of History.” Truthdig, 2 August 2018, www.truthdig.com/articles/neoliberal-fascism-and-the-echoes-of-history/. Accessed 7 July 2021. Ross, Kristin. May ’68 and Its Afterlives. University of Chicago Press....
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Jody Sperling
Issue 160
...into the atmosphere as an eddy or gust. With “Wind Rose” (2019),4747www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1kPOOcZQ8 a collaboration with composer Matthew Burtner, I focused on making the connections between breath and wind palpable. Wind...
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Paul Youngquist
Issue 160
...sound that’s related to the sound of sound.” Collective improvisation aspires to achieve complete communion. It breathes silence into being. Breath sustains the fullness of the sound of sound. For...
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Frédérique Berthet
Issue 160
...exhaling and inhaling is learned for life—je t’aime comme je respire, elle parle comme elle respire, il ment comme il respire4848Translator’s note: these three expressions use breathing in ways that...
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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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Antoine Volodine, Ben Streeter
Issue 160
...l’horreur de la nuit continuait. Il courait au hasard, comme s’il était poursuivi ou comme s’il avait commis un crime. Les repères manquaient, rien n’était visible, et il comptait sur...
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John Cayley
Issue 160
...the music/poetic balance of Cage’s work and features mesostic-generating programs by Jim Rosenberg, a pioneer of language art with computation. Remarks in the discussion signal the loss, once computation is...
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Évelyne Trouillot
Issue 160
...wind. Where am I? Come on! You can do it. Be strong. Come on, breathe! All my life I wanted to breathe, and now that they are urging me to,...
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
This special issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on comics and the anarchist imagination. The curators of the 2014 British Library exhibition, “Comics Unmasked: Art and...
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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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Rajeshwari Vallury
Issue 135
...the supposedly unified essence of a community, a tear within the fullness of an immanence completely present to itself. The gap is the sign of a community confronted with itself...
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B. Venkat Mani
Issue 160
...Barrackpore, Northern India. My name was Mangal Pandey, you called me a Sepoy. You hanged me for standing up against my subjugation by your British East India Company. Against your...
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Gene A. Plunka
Issue 118
...directors who have staged Genet’s plays is divided into six parts: “Setting the Stage,” “Politics and Performance,” “Genet and Experimental Performance,” “Key Productions,” “Genet: Cinema and Dance,” and “Performing Genet.”...
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Steve Mentz
Issue 160
...fully comprehend. The list of poetic works whose language most commonly appears as exemplary of the sublime–Milton’s Paradise Lost, Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” Shakespeare’s King Lear, Wordsworth’s The Prelude–suggest that the...
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Eric Hayot
Issue 160
...immense comfort, confronts the (equally understandable) demand to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the building of factories, and the like. We’ve had our development, the West says. But you...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Gwenola Wagon
Issue 160
To view Virusland, please visit: .com/547675919. Password: virusland. To view the entire Virusland 2020 project, visit www.virusland.org. Science fiction in found footage. This is not the future. You could buy...
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert
Issue 143
At least since their modern inception in the late nineteenth century, comics have been deeply entwined with anti-authoritarian politics and resistance. As the various contributors to this special issue point...
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Andrew Sobanet
Issue 119
In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes...
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Laura Elena Savu Walker
Issue 162
...and its power to build an ever-expanding world community of practioners who are forming what has come to be known as a “theory commons” (ix). As the collection’s editors point...
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Peter Szendy
Issue 160
...as simple as it is haunting, is inescapable: if breathing is never complete or completed (jamais définitive, writes Coccia in French), if it has to return again and again, isn’t...
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Martin Paul Eve
Issue 144
Reading literature with the aid of computational techniques is controversial. For some, digital approaches apparently fetishize the curation of textual archives, lack interpretative rigor (or even just interpretation), and are...
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Tim Ingold
Issue 163
...be shy or socially awkward at the best of times–hanker for solitude, but they also crave the company of fellow literati. Hence their compulsive shuttling, back and forth, between town...
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John Durham Peters
Issue 160
...at least, it was common up until recently to routinely discount Black lung capacity by 10-15% compared to white. A difference in the means of two very varied populations became...
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Jan Söffner
Issue 160
...mere comparison: People who are suppressed and metaphorically lack the air to breathe would then simply compare their lives to the suffocation of George Floyd; the similarity between their suppression...
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Christopher Prendergast
Issue 160
...is distilled into comedy, all terrifying thoughts temporarily banished as Proust the satirist comes out to play. His young narrator suffers periodic breathing “crises,” but for the most part these...
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Charlie Michael
Issue 133
...type of odd couple is common in French farce (as in Hollywood buddy comedies), the film’s strangely inscrutable title gives pause. Lacking an article in French, intouchables becomes a floating...
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Nora M. Alter
Issue 128
...or pictorial components of audio-visual work all too often comes at the expense of examining systems of representation and signification that are not based on purely linguistic or visual constructions....
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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 134
...of his career and then ceased to do so, without comment, after 1960. Scheie argues that Barthes’ abandonment of the theatre reveals something important about the development of his thoughts...
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Steven Connor
Issue 160
...Shorter Prose 1945-1980, John Calder, 1984). Connor, Steven. “Choralities.” Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 3-23. —. “Ludicrous Inbodiment.” StevenConnor.com, Steven Connor, 2017, .com/inbodiment.html Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden: A...
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Laurence Simmons
Issue 132
Jacques Derrida began a lecture entitled “Comment ne pas trembler,” that he delivered on 17 July 2004 at the Fondazione Europea del Disegno in Meina on the shores of Lago...
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Krzysztof Skonieczny
Issue 154
In The Inoperative Community Jean-Luc Nancy suggests that his conception of speech as the cornerstone of community can be likened to the image of two Inuit women engaging in traditional...
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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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Sydney Levy
Issue 160
...can imagine, its own highly complex set of links; the printer, the electronic database providers, the visitors of these databases all over the world, the distributors of the journal, the...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 159
...of fiction do not provide “insights.” Contrary to common expectation, they are not “oracles” designed to “deliver laws of experience, deep abiding truths about the world, ‘messages’ about who we...
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James Phillips
Issue 141
...to have broken in upon Eddie. What survives of the legend in being transposed to the subcultural Tokyo of Shinjuku’s bar scene is external performance. Freud’s universalization of Oedipus’s predicament...
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Marion Froger, David F. Bell
Issue 160
...can provoke. The “vital affects” (Stern)8989“On ne peut parler d’affect ou de niveau d’activation comme on parlerait d’éléments statiques. Il faut tenir compte de la courbe exprimant son déroulement dans...
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Andrew Barnaby
Issue 128
...our parents coming together. —Justin Martyr, First Apology In discussing the impact of traumatic experience on the workings of memory, Bessel van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart challenge...
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S.F. Kislev
Issue 151
...in the system? This paper suggests that Hegel’s method can be seen to work at the level of paragraph composition. It proposes that Hegel’s use of a certain form of...
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Matt Jones
Issue 143
...jokes displays a continuation of the anarchic spirit that CH has developed since it was founded in 1969 as an outlet for far left, countercultural bande dessinée [comics] and critique....