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The Problem with Breath

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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At the Beginning, There Was the Mask

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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Sublime Comedy: On the Inhuman Rights of Clowns

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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Respire, Con-spire

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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Oppression

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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A Breath of Fresh Air: Or, Why the Body is Not Embodied

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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Breathing Without a Head: Plant Respirations in John Gerrard’s Smoke Trees

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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The Air of Liberty: A Transatlantic Perspective

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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Gasping for Breath: Democracy à bout de souffle?

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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On Sharing Breath

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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Overtones: A Collage

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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Comme Elle Respire: Memory of Breath, Breath of Memory

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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Abstraction in Comics

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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Two Narracts

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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breathe

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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Be Strong, Breathe

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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Introduction: Comics and The Anarchist Imagination

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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Learning to Breathe | FiveFragments Against Racism

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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Jean Genet: Politics and Performance (review)

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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Surfing the Sublime: Tim Winton’s Breath and Eco-Heroism

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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Take My Breath Away

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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Fresh Air

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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Comics, Form, and Anarchy

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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French Writers and the Politics of Complicity (review)

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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Conspiring (Sympnea and Dyspnea)

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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Philosophers’ Walks by Bruce Baugh (review)

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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The Freedom to Breathe

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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Breathing: Proustian Therapy

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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Asphyxiations

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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Comment ne pas trembler?: Derrida’s Earthquake

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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“Survive”

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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Life Writing and Cognition

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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Pairing breaths: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmech’s Terminal Sud (2019)

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...