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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Ivaylo Ditchev This essay explores the relation between space—real and imaginary— and consumerist desire. Any process of modernization implies, on the one hand, social and geographical mobility that makes it possible for the individual to opt to change his or her condition and, on the other hand...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 167–190.
Published: 01 February 2017
... it are adequate for engaging with the contemporary operation of technics. My excavation focuses on the concept and operation of desire, which comes to the fore in Stiegler's writings from the mid-2000s onward, as (together with memory) the fundamental characteristic of human becoming. As we explore the concept...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 39–57.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Dotan Leshem This essay juxtaposes two senses given to the concept of “market economy”: economizing the market, as suggested by Aristotle, and marketing the economy, as suggested by modern economists. The essay argues that Aristotle identified the market as arousing excessive desires in people...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
... The Second Sex , I argue that Beauvoir shares a critique of nihilism, though she gives the term more analytic precision and political purchase than those who would use the term against her. For Beauvoir, womanly nihilism—or the feminine will to nothingness—is paradoxically expressed in the desire...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Paul A. Bové Abstract Literary disciplines’ loss of integrity began at the end of the Cold War and accelerated after the financial crisis of 2008–09 because of internal changes responding to external desires along with direct pressures from money and power. Academics follow the desires of moneyed...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 99–124.
Published: 01 May 2009
... acknowledging how those same boundaries protect his own privileges. Yet Vollmann's work is often troubling. Both his investment in the exotic and his tendency to generalize contradict his desire to empathetically represent “others,” and they are linked to another troubling aspect of Vollmann's work, which...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of what might be called “archival desire.” © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Literary Forensics, or the Incendiary Archive
Eric Savoy
Everything is a burned book.
—Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Back in the day when fire...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2010
... first matured in the mid-nineteenth century with the unprecedented intensification of print and translational practices. While mid-nineteenth century proposals to simplify Ottoman Turkish and to reform its orthography were generally propelled by a desire for more efficient communication and translation...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Chua Beng Huat By the end of the twentieth century, it was conventional, among social and political theory circles in developed countries of the West, to assume that a liberal capitalist democracy would be the endpoint of political economic development. However, this hegemonic desire of liberalism...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 33–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... aspirations the desire to become the institution of transnational democracy that otherwise has not materialized. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Obama’s Rifts
Donald E. Pease
This morning, Hortense Spillers delivered an eloquently...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 February 2015
... concept of being as a measure for other humans and as a philosophical and political justification for their dispossession, enslavement, and extermination, the very first acts of colonization. His insistence on the poststructuralists’ legacy of an antihumanist practice that desires to articulate...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 171–184.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., during which the developmental state assigned women to sustaining social reproduction as wives and mothers. Second, my interviews with photographers reveal that it was precisely the desire to disengage from these normative gender role models that drove women to photography. I argue that women practiced...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 101–137.
Published: 01 August 2013
... on the species an encompassing system of apparatuses in which every cultural diversity, every individual desire, and every version and vision of life become essentially a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the imagineering of the system. The global spectacles celebrate the intersections...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., it is all the same haunted by the formal residues of Eurocentrism because the “global” inherits its unresolved binaries and its spatial imagination that tends toward identity, intelligibility, and recognition. What I am calling accented criticism marks the desire to dismantle this post-Eurocentric form from...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 19–34.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the past, present, and future of the amateur actually are —that is, the connection between critique and desire , if it is true that amateur derives from “ amor ,” love. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 worklessness transindividuation aesthetic judgment amateur mystagogy References...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 103–126.
Published: 01 November 2018
... counterpart in its desire to move beyond the legacies of the Enlightenment. David Scott initiated this critique by arguing that seemingly endless debates between contesting versions of national historiography demonstrate the limits of using the past to find justice in the present. Qadri Ismail builds...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 5–22.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Miyoshi and his ceaseless effort to overcome the boundaries separating people was paralleled by his voracious desire to cross the boundaries that divided the disciplines of knowledge. The force that lay behind the impulse to expand his acquisition of knowledge was an unrestrained restlessness...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 February 2020
... with Jewish ghosts, the essay examines how contemporary art practices peddle in nostalgia for a Jewish past as a mode of desiring a cosmopolitan European future. As “newly integrated” Europeans, Poles are caught in a double bind: on the one hand, their Jewish ghosts allow them to participate in European...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 199–225.
Published: 01 May 2020
... is more than a place; it is a set of relations that structure a political consciousness through a longing or desire for (non)alignment. boundary 2 47:2 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659-8193326 © 2020 by Duke University Press Global Souths: Toward a Materialist Poetics of Alignment Leah Feldman Catch thief...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Joshua Malitsky This article explores how nonfiction film in postwar Yugoslavia (1945–51) expressed a fundamental ambivalence that negotiated a desire for and image of a unified nation‐state (supranationalism) with that of one made up of multiple nations (nationalism). I argue that nonfiction film...
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