Category: Volume 18 – Number 2 – January 2008
Notes on Contributors
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Emily Apter is Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Books include: The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006), Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (1999), Fetishism as Cultural Discourse (co-edited with William Pietz in 1993), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (1991), and […]
The Future of Possibility
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Pieter Vermeulen (bio)Literature Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuvenpieter.vermeulen@arts.kuleuven.be Review of: Anne-Lise François. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. Anne-Lise François’s Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience announces on its back cover that it will deal with movements of “affirmative reticence” and of “recessive action.” So what do we make […]
The Wager of Death: Richard Wright With Hegel and Lacan
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Mikko Tuhkanen (bio)Department of English and Africana Studies, Texas A & M Universitymikko.tuhkanen@tamu.edu Review of JanMohamedAbdul R., The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’sArchaeology of Death. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. Ginger: Listen, we’ll either die free chickens or die trying. Babs: Are those the only options? –Chicken Run All that [the slave] has is at stake; […]
Ways of See(th)ing: A Record of Visual Punk Practice
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Stephanie Hart (bio)York University, Department of Englishshart@yorku.ca Review of: Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar, eds. Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years. London: Merrell, 2007. No art activity is to be understood apart from the codes and practices of the society which contains it; art in use is bracketed ineluctably within ideology. ––Victor […]
The Noise of Art
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Kenneth Goldsmith (bio)English Department, University of Pennsylvaniakg@ubu.com Review of: Alan Licht, Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories. New York: Rizzoli, 2007. Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, recently published a chronicle of twentieth-century music called The Rest is Noise. The book made several bestseller lists and was nominated for a National […]
A Natural History of Consumption: The Shopping Carts of Julian Montague
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David Banash (bio)Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois Universityd-banash@wiu.edu Review of: Julian Montague, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Abrams Image, 2006. Seizing the amateur naturalist’s field guide as a form, the artist Julian Montague has produced a provocative and haunting work that takes […]
Remembering Dora Bruder: Patrick Modiano’s Surrealist Encounter with the Postmemorial Archive
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Sven-Erik Rose (bio)Department of French and Italian, Miami University roses@muohio.edu “But where does the outside commence? This question is the question of the archive.” –Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever French novelist Patrick Modiano’s oeuvre is obsessed with les années noires of the German occupation and Vichy regime.1 Since he debuted in 1968 with […]
Terror of the Ethical: On Levinas’s Il y a
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Michael Marder (bio)Department of Philosophy, University of Torontomichael.marder@utoronto.ca Abstract This essay inquires into the uncanny, unpredictable, and terrifying dimension of Levinasian ethics that retains the trace of impersonal existence or il y a (there is). After establishing that being, labor, and sense are but folds in the infinite fabric of the there is, the folds that […]
Jagannath’s Saligram: On Bruno Latour and Literary Critique After Postcoloniality
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Amit RayDepartment of English, Rochester Institute of Technologyaxrgsl@rit.edu Evan SelingerDepartment of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technologyemsgsh@rit.edu Abstract Bruno Latour has turned to Indian vernacular fiction to illustrate the limits of ideology critique. In examining the method of literary analysis that underlies his appropriation of postcolonial history and culture, we appeal to Edward Said’s notion of “traveling […]
Technics of the Subject: The Avatar-Drive
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Emily Apter (bio)Department of French, New York Universityemily.apter@nyu.edu Abstract This essay considers the digital avatar not simply as a name for a virtual double of the player of videogames, but as bound to or manifesting psychological drive, a kind of homunculus of the drive. Drawing on a wide range of theories that have informed technical constructions […]
Spins
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John Mowitt (bio)Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesotamowit001@umn.edu Abstract This essay explores some of the points of contact between philosophical reflection and dance. Paying close attention to way the figure of dance is put to work in texts by Norbert Elias, Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul de Man, Plato, and […]