Category: Volume 18 – Number 1 – September 2007
Notes on Contributors
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Alan Bass is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where he is on the faculty of several psychoanalytic institutes. He also teaches in the philosophy department of The New School for Social Research. The author of Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford UP, 2000) and Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care […]
Homeland Insecurities
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Melinda Cooper (bio)Sociology, University of Sydney, Australiamelinda.cooper@arts.usyd.edu.au Randy Martin, An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. Randy Martin’s Empire of Indifference deploys the concept of “securitization”–with its double reference to financial and military processes–as a way of approaching the seeming convertibility of the economic […]
Open Studios: Rachel Blau Duplessis’s Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work
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Catherine Taylor (bio)Department of English, Ohio Universitytaylorc1@ohio.edu Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work. Tuscaloosa: Alabama UP, 2006. An essay’s swerve can make the trip. First sky. Then the waves. Sky. The edge of the water. Sudden breathless teeming immersion. Then sky again and pray you’re not becalmed since the […]
When Were We Creole?
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Michael Malouf (bio)Department of English, George Mason University mmalouf@gmu.edu Review of: Charles Stewart, ed. Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Walnut Creek: Left Coast, 2007. Ever since James Clifford declared in 1988 that “we are all Caribbeans now living in our urban archipelagoes” there has been a rise in the theoretical cachet of creolization as a […]
Philopolemology?
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Joshua Kates (bio)Department of English, Indiana Universityjkates@indiana.edu Review of: Badiou, Alain. Polemics. Trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006. Reading Alain Badiou’s Polemics, one might initially have the sensation of having wandered into a conversation not meant for oneself. Polemics consists of an English translation of a series of three slender French books, Circonstances I-III, […]
What Went Wrong?: Reappraising the “Politics” of Theory
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Joseph Keith (bio)English Department, Binghamton University, SUNYjkeith@binghamton.edu Review of: Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right. New York: Columbia UP, 2006. What went wrong? How to explain the dismal state of today’s political landscape in the U.S.–with neoconservatism and free-market triumphalism in such dominance and the left in a […]
The Desire Called Mao: Badiou and the Legacy of Libidinal Economy
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Eleanor Kaufman (bio)Department of Comparative Literature and Department of French and Francophone Studies,University of California, Los Angeles Abstract Although Alain Badiou’s early work is deeply critical of French theories of libidinal economy that sought to synthesize Marx and Freud in the wake of May 1968, this essay seeks to summarize the central tenets of libidinal economy […]
Endopsychic Allegories
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Laurence A. Rickels (bio)Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbararickels@gss.ucsb.edu Abstract Philip K. Dick’s Valis trilogy staggers as seemingly separable phases the elements he metabolized all together in such works as Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. From the intersection crowded with science fiction, schizophrenia, and mysticism in Valis […]
In Theory, Politics Does not Exist
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Brett Levinson (bio)Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Binghamtonblevins@binghamton.edu Abstract This essay considers a line of thought about the possibility of political action in psychoanalytic theory. In the mid-1930s George Bataille asked why popular political movements during this period yielded, ultimately, fascism rather than communism. He responds by suggesting that for the […]
The Mystery of Sex and the Mystery of Time: An Integration of Some Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
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Alan Bass (bio)Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research and Training Analyst and Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York Freudian SocietyBassAJ@aol.com Abstract Freudian theory historicizes sexuality, makes it temporal in a new way. Is there a relation between the rethinking of time in Heidegger and the temporality of sexuality? Jean Laplanche asks a […]
Analogy, Terminable and Interminable
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Jan Mieszkowski (bio)German Department, Reed Collegemieszkow@reed.edu Few twentieth-century discourses have shaped the humanities and social sciences like psychoanalysis. The work of Sigmund Freud and his inheritors has been a driving force behind countless efforts to rethink the most fundamental questions of subjectivity, history, and politics. This enduring influence is readily evident in contemporary gender […]