Category: Volume 26 – Number 1 – September 2015
Notes on Contributors
July 2, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Deleuze and Guattari (1989), Deleuze on Literature (2003), Deleuze on Cinema (2003), Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (2003), Deleuze’s Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (2004), Deleuze’s Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics (2007), […]
“getting to the core of things”
July 2, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Stuart James Taylor (bio)Glasgow University A Review of Bolger, Robert K. & Scott Korb, eds. Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Cahn, Steven M. & Maureen Eckert, eds. Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace. New York: Columbia UP, 2015. In 1985, long before […]
On Sidestepping the Political
July 2, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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James Liner (bio)University of Washington Tacoma A review of Potts, Jason and Daniel Stout, eds., Theory Aside. Durham: Duke UP, 2014. Print. We all know better than to believe that the complex history of theory (to say nothing of its present) can be reduced to a sequence of compartmentalized, oversimplified schools and movements or a […]
The Art of the Encounter
July 2, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Ronald Bogue (Bio)University of Georgia A review of Baross, Zsuzsa. Encounters: Gérard Titus-Carmel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2015. Print. Baross, Zsuzsa. Encounters: Gérard Titus-Carmel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2015. Print. The epigraph of Zsuzsa Baross’s outstanding study comes from Gilles Deleuze: “To encounter is to find, to […]
Narco-narratives and Transnational Form:The Geopolitics of Citation in the Circum-Caribbean
June 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Jason Frydman (bio)Brooklyn College Abstract This essay argues that narco-narratives–in film, television, literature, and music–depend on structures of narrative doubles to map the racialized and spatialized construction of illegality and distribution of death in the circum-Caribbean narco-economy. Narco-narratives stage their own haunting by other geographies, other social classes, other media; these hauntings refract the asymmetries […]
Architectural Space in Windhoek, Namibia:Fortification, Monumentalization, Subversion
June 30, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Julia C. Obert (bio)University of Wyoming Abstract This essay argues that contemporary postcolonial cities are definitive of Anthony Vidler’s “architectural uncanny,” and it forwards Windhoek, Namibia’s capital city, as a particularly palpable example of this phenomenon. This essay reads local literary texts and other historical documents to investigate how Windhoek’s architectural spaces condition structures of […]
Sociable Media:Phatic Connection in Digital Art
June 29, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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James J. Hodge (bio)Northwestern University Abstract This essay argues for the impersonally social character of phatic communication in the context of contemporary networked media culture. Georg Simmel’s theorization of sociability as a playfully impersonal mode of social being prior to difference provides the basis for a discussion of the pleasures of phatic communication in digital […]
Warhol’s Problem Project: The Time Capsules
June 29, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 26, Number 1, September 2015 |
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Christopher Schmidt (bio)LaGuardia Community College Abstract This essay examines the split function of Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules as both research archive and unrealized art project. It suggests that the Time Capsules epitomize Warhol’s career-long preoccupation with consumption and waste (a concern animating much of his art production), and that the extreme materiality of the 610 […]