...Bradley J. Fest This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite...

...Dawn Lundy Martin © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela’s Wholeness, Perhaps Infinite I recall almost nothing between the years of 1986 and 1990. Or, I recall only a few things that I recall very well. My first car was a white Datsun B-210­ with an END APARTHEID sticker...

... discarded critical practices that illuminate new directions for constructing alternative futures. The Infinite Rehearsals of the Critique of Religion: Theological Thinking After Humanism Corey D. B. Walker Of course in Heidegger, as in all those...

... to acquire a new point of view—to inquire into language, into poetics, into life, into reality. This poetics indeed resonates with Barin Ghosal's Expansive Consciousness theory in the world of Bengali New Poetry. Both are inventive poetics of an eccentric centrifugal journey toward infinite possibilities...

... and with what degree of importance. The ethics of the other seems dangerously close to existentialist versions of authenticity. The test case is Simon Critchley’s elegantly argued Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance . This book seems trapped into having to convert the negatives...

..., discrete mobility, which he names “elevatoriality.” Fetishism would be inherent to music insofar as it is the name not only for the possibility of infinite exchange or circulation that music presupposes but also for the possibility of a freeze-frame or a stuck key where eyes or ears can halt. © 2016...

... that epitomized Rakim's work (known as the “Golden Age of Hip Hop”) as well as a deep affection for J. L. Austin's theory as an infinitely applicable and a fundamentally democratic ethos. Duke University Press 2009 Rakim’s Performativity Tracie Morris...

...Dennis Tenen The Infinite Monkey Theorem (IMT) is a familiar trope (involving monkeys and typewriters), meant to explore the limits of randomly generated composition. In this essay, I draw a brief genealogy of the trope in philosophy and in fiction, discuss its relevance to several major...

... sorrows of the early military regimes, to the infinite deferrals of justice that animated the neoliberal project. In closing, I examine solidarity responses to the 2014 attack on Gaza. Embodying the rejuvenation of joint decolonial struggle, they rupture the Zionist stronghold that has shaped dominant...

... Michel Foucault’s notion of “the thought of the outside,” whereby the domineering speaking subject of knowledge disappears in the infinite boundedness of language. Restless flying, it is argued, is elemental of what I term poiēsis in black , referencing a set of practices-of-living articulating...

... complete, the novel we know as The Pale King from a pile of fragments the author left neatly stacked on his desk before hanging himself a few feet away—­was only the first of these. Pietsch’s assignment will be familiar to anyone who has read Wallace’s longer works, especially Infinite Jest (1996...

... it) among its elements; this empty set is the first item counted in any set, made up of any type of elements, structured by any principle of selection. On this foundation, no set can be said to contain itself as one of its members, and so an irrational infinite regress may be avoided. Following the famous...

... inexhaustible potential for mercantile investments in this upsurge— taking the form of communities demanding recognition and so- called cultural singularities—of women, homosexuals, the disabled, Arabs! And these infinite combinations of predicative traits, what a god-send...

... into a workshop pluralism of infinite locales whose representation depended upon a kind of reactive anticosmopolitanism, site specificity in art practice emerged, by contrast, as a concern that has generated, at once, some of the most inventive and reflexive art of the last forty years...

...; there can be no meaning that somehow exists primordially prior In Translation Studies / Habib / Islam and Literalism 73 to the act of interpretation. The Qur’an, in its infinite wisdom, recognizes this and asserts that God speaks in parables for men. The early Christian thinkers...

... organisms, so that reproduc- tion may occur, and a potentially infinite future made possible for the entity in question. What Heidegger proposes in his readings of Nietzsche’s ‘‘will-to- power...

... that the animal desires only finite objects. It is always hungry now. The human can imagine moments that are not immediate, those of a past and future hunger. Human desire is, through reason, spontaneously infinite; it is infinite because it is an endless striving for absolute satisfaction that is not limited...

... . Edited by Erdman David . New York : Anchor . Blanchot Maurice . 1992 . The Infinite Conversation . Translated by Hanson Susan . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Brandom Robert . 1998 . Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive...

... the “supervised” know how important that is. He has always been my champion, recognizing me as an equal, honoring my value, and always giving me credit when it was due. For all that, I am infinitely grateful. He is my treasured friend. While b2 ’s masthead has changed over the years, I have enjoyed immensely...

... and the poet’s new imaginative flower. For, however critical and negating it may be, the structure would condition, perhaps even determine, the poet’s imagination. But both Mal- larmé and Badiou resist such slick logical tricks, because they embrace infinite multiplicity and radical...