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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 213–237.
Published: 01 February 2017
.../2013/06/the-organology-of-dreams-and-arche-cinema/ . ———. 2013b . Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals. Vol. 2 of Disbelief and Discredit . Cambridge : Polity . ———. 2013c . What Makes Life Worth Living? Translated by Ross Daniel . Cambridge : Polity . Impossible...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 159–163.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Dawn Lundy Martin Being black is an impossible location for selfhood. In social space, the black body has to negotiate what's being “imposed” and “recognized” in the encounter with an other, which makes for an inevitable slippage between perception and projection. It itches in this gap...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 67–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
... it by what he referred to as the “hypocritical gentry.” In Wang's analysis, Lu Xun's notion of “superstition” emerges as the fount of popular imagination, the only real bulwark against an emerging scientism that was essentially but the latest means of social control and that threatened to make impossible any...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
... “master thinkers” who do not appear; but, epistemologically, we seem to be stuck in the extreme (and unfruitful) tension between seeing literary texts as “allegories” of the impossibility of language to refer to any outside referent (following the dogma of “deconstruction” and the linguistic turn...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 287–312.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., the essay uncovers Kıvılcımlı's ambivalence toward the excess of language over concepts. Kıvılcımlı seeks to dispel the effects of linguistic anarchy and perform an impossible leap over conceptual language by creating a short circuit between Marxian thought and Turkish idioms. If the Marxian text is to have...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2010
... linguistic nationalism is characterized by the extremity of measures taken for the control of communicability, in the establishment of an impossibly self-same or self-identical identity. Contrary to the claims of ideologues of nationalism, phoneticization and vernacularization are never merely acts...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., and necessarily, opposed ways of seeing. Thus, far from solving problems of testimony by displaying hard evidence of death, the memorials reveal anew the necessity of an impossible testimony, that is, a testimony of the dead. Rwanda’s Bones
Sara Guyer...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 February 2025
... not be the same from one moment to the next and a certain kind of knowledge therefore becomes impossible. In such worlds, in which “the future constancy of the real is not guaranteed” and moreover “contingency is necessary” (to recall the work of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux), the project of detection...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 49–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
... became impossible. In the spring of 1940 the Soviet Union addressed an ultimatum to the Romanian government, demanding the immediate handing over of Bessarabia and North Bukovina. Romania, powerless and unable to expect any support from its theoretical allies France and England, who were themselves now...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write
poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowl-
edge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today.
—Theodor Adorno, ‘‘Cultural Criticism and Society in The Adorno
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boundary 2 33:1, 2006...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
... cleansing the German language of Nazi ideology via poetry weighs deathly heavy in Celan. The task is insurmountable, impossible (unpassable)—and yet he persists if he can, excising fascism from his German-language poetry poem by poem, translating personal and collective trauma into a language simultaneously...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 1–38.
Published: 01 August 2013
... own foundations. Here is a passage to this effect,
which shows how Avelar interprets Borges: “The study of the other is then a necessarily
failed enterprise, not in the banal sense that full knowledge of the other is impossible but
in the more fundamental sense that in its failure resides its...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 221–242.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and the perfectible union, he occupies the site I earlier described,
the site at which a constituting power becomes visible. Obama is a constitu-
tional figure. He occupied the site of what he called the perfectible union in
order to demand the impossible, to produce a constituent power that would
enable...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 19–34.
Published: 01 February 2017
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consist, if it is impossible to love a work by Duchamp in which he himself
interrogates its “work”? How does one become an amateur with Duchamp—
1. [This provocatively enigmatic term, which literally means “out of work” or “unemployed,”
took on new meaning in the work of Maurice Blanchot, for whom...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 203–228.
Published: 01 May 2001
...? And can this function-
alization, or its impossibility, be limited, directed, or controlled? In a religious
narrative, ‘‘Holocaust as a paradigm of absolute evil, poses a challenge
to mankind’s relation to God. As such, what is assumed to be the specifi-
cally Jewish character of the Holocaust becomes...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of Toussaint’s
life as a tragedy. And he is interested in what James called Toussaint’s
tragic fate only insofar as he can redeploy the impossible options with which
Toussaint was confronted as a means of refashioning the field paradigm
of the postcolonial present. Scott’s interpretation...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 207–229.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in general. They are
not only impossible to dismiss (which means that it is absurd to imagine
humans outside of such differences), they are also impossible to define in
a univocal manner, in the form of lines of demarcation simply separating
classes or groups of humans who are essentially...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 101–124.
Published: 01 August 2004
... by about thirty to one. ‘‘The
[piracy] trade has made it almost impossible to sell legitimate video discs
[in China], and dampened the lure of Hollywood films in movie theaters 3
The common understanding in the international business world is that this
piracy is nothing but robbery, which the Chinese...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 21–45.
Published: 01 May 2003
... that has helped keep free jazz publicly trivialized,
indeed, all but invisible, in the United States for more than four decades now.
Impossibility is improvisation’s material, as well as its conceptual
point of departure, as the avant-garde pianist Andrew Hill testifies in the
title of his...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 107–122.
Published: 01 August 2003
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and trembling an infinitude different in kind, I believe, from that of the mod-
6943 boundar ern will-to-will. (Here I cannot demonstrate the rightness of such a belief.)
In any event, the story is a dramatic figuration of the impossible coming...
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