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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 75–93.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Alexander Gelley Martin Heidegger's denunciation of Gerede (idle talk) in §35 of Sein und Zeit is scathing: “Idle talk is constituted in this gossiping and passing the word along, a process by which its initial lack of grounds to stand on increases to complete groundlessness.” But how might...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 79–113.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Speak?” to contemporary critical theory is its immanent cri-
tique of theory’s material embeddedness in global capitalism. The essay
exposes the myriad ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s
accounts of power were ideologically blind to the international division of
labor (IDL...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 August 2007
... satirizing the Crescent Moon Society or
other idle troublemakers; yet I remember it serves more than this purpose.
This short essay of Lu Xun’s, of less than one thousand words, is a sketch
of the history of the evolution of ruffians in China. In this passage, Lu Xun
concludes that the men of letters...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 177–201.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in the quartet,
in which he presents as a case study the Bengali institution of the adda,a
gathering place where men could engage in a form of idle talk, which never-
theless drew upon literary and political discourse. Chakrabarty traces the
growing respectability of the adda in the Bengali middle classes...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 271–294.
Published: 01 May 2022
... fantasy that even the stars “have tasks” and can thus support an accusation of idleness leveled at the recumbent travelers. As composed in 1807, the poem ends with this censure about living without the desire to work. Coleridge and Hazlitt both found the poem offensive and said so in print; Keats opined...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 71–89.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., literacy, and privacy, among others, it seems reasonable to suppose that the novel has been by and large a middle- class genre, talking about the lives of those who are most likely to be reading it and largely ignoring the lives of those who prob- ably won t read it. If this isn t wrong, as I m afraid...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 35–52.
Published: 01 February 2017
...-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, and software for critically
notating film and music.—Trans.]
5. [Otium is described in footnote 3, as contrasted with negotium.—Trans.]
Stiegler / Quarrel 39
This puts me in a position to talk about...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 181–198.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to humanitarianism and to the refugee as a political imaginary has marked ways of talking about and responding to the profound crisis of a political horizon on the left. But there have also been turns within humanitarianism—and, indeed, multiple humanitarianisms. Changes within the material apparatuses...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 33–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the condition of political subjectivization. “You” is a state of possi-
bility within a self that is attuned to transformation.
When Obama talked about the abstract principles through which he
would engage political issues, he rarely descended to the level of a specific
agenda. In addressing...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 139–163.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a “moderate perfectionism” that would
employ appropriate Confucian values to support the demand for “civility”
(search for the common good) of a pluralistic society.17 Bai Tongdong, who
views Jiang as a radical “idle dreamer,” writes that “at a time when pluralism
is inevitable, such a system cannot...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 71–103.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in the painter's voice ( 1969 ). 1 In 2014, a technology called Irene (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), devised by a group of particle physicists, extracted sounds out of the damaged phonograph cylinders of two of Thomas Edison's talking dolls (Cowen 2015 ). “Now I lay me down to sleep,” one of them...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that of a prophetic monotheism, as for example in the current Islamic terrorist ideologies. (There's much talk about the disasters of all three monotheisms in my and Adonis's Conversations in the Pyrenees [Adonis and Joris 2018 ]). But given that the idea of nomadism doesn't ab initio include a return...
FIGURES
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 53–76.
Published: 01 February 2011
...-
ness and so takes us beyond freedom in a purely de facto sense. It makes
no sense to talk about freedom in a society or to compare one society with
another in terms of freedom as if it is some objective phenomenon that we
are talking about or measuring. It does not make sense to say, for example...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 133–153.
Published: 01 May 2010
... transmission until the later nineteenth century,
with the advent of electrical storage technologies. Earlier that same cen-
tury, however, students would learn to talk in the manner as one might learn
an instrument. As contemporary pedagogue Heinrich Stephani noted, the
mother’s mouth must become...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 35–65.
Published: 01 February 2008
...-
ment follows its fugitive career as a work of vast declamatory assertive-
ness. Beethoven allowed himself to be talked out of its original placement
in the sequence. It was to be the nearly seventeen-minute finale to the
B-flat Major Quartet (Op. 130). Instead, its reception diminished...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 203–228.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of French complicity and toward an expansion
of ‘‘Auschwitz’’ into a general comment on the responsibilities and ethics of
memory: ‘‘The problem of remembering Auschwitz concludes Kritzman,
‘‘is how to remember it in order not to forget what happened at Auschwitz,
or how to talk about Auschwitz without...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 213–239.
Published: 01 May 2017
... a book and not an online destination? This is
not an idle question. Greene also oversees Arcade, a Stanford University–
hosted, humanities-themed website that features blogs, peer-reviewed
electronic journals, streaming audio, and podcasts. By choosing to super-
vise a large-scale project...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 105–129.
Published: 01 August 2016
... that is capitalism: a proletariat confronting big landed prop-
erty interest and big money capital. Yet, in this instance, the antagonistic
presence of these elements did not resolve itself as capitalism but rather
played out as the formation of an idle “mob” and the consolidation of an
expansionist...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 57–103.
Published: 01 May 2001
...
Entertainment Conference, in New York, on 16 May 2000. Here are highlights that frame
the issue of fair compensation to musicians.
‘‘I want to talk about piracy and music Love began. ‘‘What is piracy? Piracy is the act of
stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 31–62.
Published: 01 November 2019
... any guise of critical neutrality or objectivity, in his confrontation with the loss of his friend, W. J. T. Mitchell describes conversation with Said as if it were a metaphor for the boldness, vigor, and unpredictability of his thought: walking and talking with Edward were one and the same thing...
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