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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., as well as an epoch of enormous literary creativity, it is still dealing with the devastations of the 2008 global financial crisis that led to the overnight meltdown of the Celtic Tiger and to what might be called a “decade of austerities.” The collapse of the Celtic Tiger, and the sense of supine...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Terrence McDonough An emerging consensus rates Ireland’s austerity strategy a success. Any consideration of the state of Ireland today must begin by calling this narrative into question. Many severe weaknesses remain. Most importantly, given the length and depth of the crisis, the country will need...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
... the state’s image as the poster child for Euro-austerity. Meanwhile, the postwar settlement in Northern Ireland faces its most severe challenge yet, as drastic cuts in public spending imposed by Britain’s Conservative government put the local power-sharing administration under intense strain. This essay...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 169–190.
Published: 01 August 2021
... analyze Podemos founding member Iñigo Errejón's speech after the party's 2016 national election defeat, where his rhetoric linked the temporality of the present with anti-austerity protestors’ embodied presence. Last, I read the rise of neomunicipalisms as another iteration of presentism, aiming...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 191–213.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., truth, and historical agreement toward those central to a new destituent process: dissent, divergence, and plurality, among others. Over the course of this essay, I carry out a genealogical review of the two intersecting social movements of the period which drove that change: first, the anti-austerity...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 215–251.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... 1. The canon of “crisis cinema” (Allbritton 2014 ) is an ever-expanding list, including fictional films and documentaries, comedies and dramas, from a variety of genres. For comprehensive accounts, see Villarmea Álvarez, who provides a useful taxonomy of types of crisis and austerity cinema...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 February 2013
... that capital reinvents its attachments to tra-
dition, coming down from its speculative highs to preach the austere truths
of fundamental value. In England, the turn to austerity has taken on a decid-
edly theological flavor. The welfare reforms recently enacted by the coali-
tion government of Liberal...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., intellectual, and political life in Spain. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Great Recession indignados movement unemployment austerity Spain On Sunday, May 15...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 85–101.
Published: 01 August 2020
... at the text s numerical halfway point, this key moment plays a decisive role in the unfolding of the rest of the plot. In the spring of 1993, following his nervous breakdown, Auster- litz finds himself in an antiquarian bookshop near the British Museum (Sebald 2001a: 140). Like the new Bibliothèque...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 185–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of W. G. Sebald) was unknown to most Chinese readers until 2010, when Auster- litz, his final work, became available in Chinese Mandarin.1 This is nothing new; even in the author s native Germany, his name remained unnoticed until the late 1990s. Today, however, his writings are highly renowned...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 127–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... was, of course, the sudden ubiq-
uity of the minarets, which from a distance towered austerely and com-
mandingly, like lighthouses, high above the houses of the villages, their
shafts and parapets shimmering brilliantly under the cold silvery light of
the falling December sun...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in the same boat, or body.” That same body is today dispersed in sickness, and the time for consideration in commune—whether as staid academic conference or ceremonial celebration—is passed. Pestilence and isolation; university austerity amid widening economic collapse; wildfire in the Redwood forests Brown...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 181–198.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the reproduction of an existing social order one of the underlying premises to their own fulfilment. Little expresses the affinity between political conservatism and the humanitarian temperament so well as the coincidence, in 2015, of the refugee crisis and the quash- ing of the anti- austerity radical Left...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 August 2012
... maîtres à penser, he did not think
that the work of thought had to be ponderous (Heidegger), austere (Fou-
cault), or sibylline (Lacan); he thought it could be fun, and he brought to it
an impish attitude that makes his writings a pleasure to read. This is most
evident in his lectures, some...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 135–169.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., accountants, and
bankers, Ireland’s writers had not let the country down and urged this as a
case for the protection of arts funding as the Troika geared up to implement
its austerity program. Tóibín further stressed the importance of the arts for
the “branding of Ireland abroad” and asserted...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 February 2018
.... Ireland’s austerity measures included tax increases and public spending cuts equaling
$20 billion (over €15 billion), as well as high-interest loans and the withdrawal of funds
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its eventual dispersed impact—which in both nations was seen to affect the
poor...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 February 2006
... allegory
pandemically spreading everywhere through universal corporate advertis-
ing. Authors such as Paul Auster question the Grand Narratives and fake
Big Ideas by limiting their stories to a kind of Kafkan parabolic minimalism
where, to quote Kafka’s parable on parables, the idea is to show...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., comfortably standing
there with all its austerity and might, with its expressly monumental forms
and overly emphasized masculine volumes communicating strength and
vigor.22 An official dedication, sealed in a capsule and built into the base of
19. Naidenov, Stoi na tepeto Aliosha, 21–29.
20...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 169–175.
Published: 01 August 2020
... The Black Veil, Enrique Vila- Matas s A Brief History of Portable Literature, Paul Auster s The Inven- tion of Solitude, Pierre Michon s Small Lives, Douglas Coupland s Polar- Fresán / The Sebald Case 173 oids from the Dead and Life After God, Javier Cercas s Soldiers of Sala- mis, James Ellroy s My Dark...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 155–161.
Published: 01 November 2021
... before. With the recommendation of Paul Auster, I got a job teaching one undergraduate creative writing class at Princeton, for the spring of 1989. Paul and I used to take the train from New York together; he was teaching a translation course at the same time. But while Paul would go back to New York...
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