... what happens to the notion of “experience” with the emergence of immersive virtual reality technologies. Revisiting central thinkers in philosophical aesthetics as well as a key moment in the history of war and technology, namely, the invention of the modern war game around 1800, the essay outlines the...

...Donald E. Pease Duke University Press 2007 “Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism Donald E. Pease Two of the key terms in the title of this essay, antislavery and the crisis of Emersonianism, refer to...

...Gary Gutting Duke University Press 2002 Foucault’s Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Michel Foucault was always, and quite deliberately, a moving target, so he may well have demurred from the idea that these three thick...

...Michael Jennings Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 93 of 224 6808 boundar On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodification and Experience in Benjamin’s Baudelaire Book...

...Bruno Latour Duke University Press 2005 What Is Given in Experience? Bruno Latour Every synthesis begins ‘‘anew’’ and has to be taken up from the start as if for the first time. —Isabelle Stengers, Penser avec...

... Experiments in Civility Bill Dietz and Gavin Steingo Preface It would seem that in many circles, music has a bad reputation. You can’t trust music. One minute a piece of music is proclaiming the heights of Western civilization, the next minute the...

... once and for all. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Vision of Voice in James and Hitchcock: An Experiment in Reading Gina M. MacKenzie and Daniel T. O’Hara Our Theory Our “experiment in reading” is a reading of reading based upon...

...Élise Derroitte Modern pedagogy, as distinguished particularly from Enlightenment theories, is characterized by an effort to reconnect the content of education (what is taught) to the particular experience of individuals who learn. From Dilthey to Dewey, the notion of experience ( Erlebnis ) has...

... differing domains: the family as a social institution and the family as a process of individual experiences, that is, the lived experience of family life. While the individualization of the family institution is mostly reflected in the weakening of the bonds between the family and the larger kinship...

... biography, we see that such categorical determinations belie the very concept of lifestyle and its use as a constitutive term. Its use plunges us into an error in which we wrongly confound dominant and proprietary demarcations of the relation between thinking and “experience.” Finally, this analysis reminds...

... attendees' varied experiences of the spectacle, provide important insights not only into the nature of the party-state's ideological project and the citizenry's experience of that project, but also into some wider questions about the fate of the future in our current period. © 2011 by Duke University...

...Daniel T. O’Hara Spanos’s memoir of his World War II experiences as a soldier and prisoner of war near Dresden at the time of its firebombing by the Allies provides the basis for a reading of his entire career and its legacy, this article argues. The ontological and existential dimensions of this...

...Harry Harootunian In this essay, I propose that the forced convergence of history and memory in Fukushima resulted in singularizing expressions of experience and memory, thus inducing survivors to focus on the immediate context of the everyday itself rather than the nation and national history...

...Takushi Odagiri Various elements of the everyday have been suspended, interrogated, and redefined in the estranged experience of the crisis that occurred in Japan shortly after March 2011. This complex transformation of quotidian consciousness gives renewed meaning to Miki Kiyoshi's philosophy of...

... polarized tendencies associated with specific infrastructures—vertical hierarchical integration with broadcast television, and horizontal heterarchical differentiation with the commuter network and mobile phones. The basic goal is twofold: to consider the lived experience of these two infrastructural...

...Ben Lerner It is a commonplace that John Ashbery's poetry is, in some important sense, “about time,” but we lack an account of the specific experience of temporality it enables. Part of the bizarre power of Ashbery's best poetry is that it seems to narrate what it is like to read Ashbery's best...

...David Simpson This essay argues that the recourse to terror as the defining term of the 9/11 experience is at odds with the rhetorical choices made by Edmund Burke in his writings on the French Revolution, as well as by various Cold War theorists in the 1950s. Burke regarded terror as an...

...Howard Eiland Walter Benjamin’s theory of education was first produced in conjunction with the theory of experience he developed in the years immediately preceding World War I, the period of his student activism. Integral to the discourse of both learning and experiencing in Benjamin is the idea of...

... investigation as a whole , or in other words, the dialectical image is what constitutes the presentation of what Kant calls an idea with the material of experience. The image so revealed is not a representation of reality, but rather Benjamin thinks of it, after Goethe, as an archetype, a standard for judging...

... difficult (sometimes painful) racial humor? Is there something about being “of a darker hue” and the social experience in the world accompanying that bodily existence that compels an increasing number of writers of color to dance in the fields of experiment, play, irony, and other boundary-pushing modes? In...