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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 133–172.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Douglas Messerli Abstract This essay is a long review of the anthology of Italian poetry Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies . Beginning with a brief discussion of the editor's extensive introduction and an evaluation and explanation of the overall anthology project, the review essay goes...
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 2 Sensual images run like a mill-race through Jekyll as he transforms into Hyde. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1931). More
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to be concentrated in a single focal point, like those traditionally found in the utopian images of the philosophers. He goes on to speak of elements of an ultimate condition that are deeply embedded in every present day. I would like to take these propositions as hints to the Benjaminian concept of study, and I...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 25–47.
Published: 01 August 2009
... but instead in relation to “discourses” (like anthropology or archaeology), the essay contests Kwon's arguments that artists like Mark Dion and Renée Green relativize artistic practice in relation to other disciplines and that their work breaks with the concerns of art history. Demonstrating instead how...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 97–103.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of perception and interspecies research, a “singing with,” not just about or like, the nonhuman animal. The infrahuman sounds of Lila Zemborain's jellyfish (“Mauve Sea Orchids”) or the revolving phonemes of Emily Dickinson's hummingbird (“A route of evanescence”) organize perception and citation along...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 245–262.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Bruce Robbins Early postcolonial critics were at worst ambivalent about secularism, and more likely either uninterested or, like Edward Said, extremely enthusiastic. What is the meaning of the recent turn against secularism by critics in and around the field Said did so much to establish...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 111–141.
Published: 01 May 2012
... be equipped to synchronize with other monothematic mantras of modernity like scientific progress, democracy, or techno-financial development. The essay visits some nodal moments of this historical narrative–the coming into being of a Hindu “tradition” under the auspices of colonial Indology, Rammohun Roy’s...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 99–116.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., or transubstantiation.” “Transubstantiate my form, says Daphne [as muse to Apollo, archetypal Greco-Roman poet].” In this essay, Brown will play Daphne provoking and inspiring in figures like Apollo what he terms as the “be leafing” (believing) patterns in a world-transforming visionary poet like Bob Dylan...
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Published: 01 February 2024
suggest that, given the stone facade of the building and the history of architecture in Pueblo, it is likely not an image of Cathay or Martha. More
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Mary McGlynn TransAtlantic and On Canaan’s Side revisit the American Dream that people like their characters helped to create. Colum McCann and Sebastian Barry advance sophisticated reassessments of economic agency and the potential for social mobility in the wake of the Irish economic crash...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2010
...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...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 February 2017
... that is etymologically at the root of the word amateur —that is required for art-work. For Stiegler, Marcel Duchamp is an exemplar of this work precisely because of his libidinal discourse with art, most evident in the readymades, referred to by Stiegler as “not a burning scandal but something like a mute surprise...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 79–105.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... What does Taiwanese multiculturalism look like? How does the uncertain status of Taiwanese sovereignty shape local identity politics? And what are the effects of these policies on indigenous groups? To answer these questions, this essay combines a historical and ethnographic analysis of Taiwanese...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 13–40.
Published: 01 November 2018
... response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine seeks to turn us toward eternity, Knausgaard turns us back toward our finite lives as the heart of everything that matters. The animating...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 103–132.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of the possibility of revolutionary subjectivity formed around categories like wageless, precarious, and surplus References Abel Jason Dietz Richard Su Yaqin . 2014 . “ Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs? ” Federal Reserve of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance 20...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 221–233.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the state and commercial sectors. Further distinguishing Grass Stage’s practice is a commitment to discussion, including the lengthy “after-theater” discussions with audiences, new forms of space, and a new and distinctive politics of the body. He also traces Grass Stage’s work with like-minded groups...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 117–118.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in a thousand layers around the surface of the globe to allow you to inhabit within this shapeless realm, or a realm with too many shapes. Just like geological upheaval, this regime of images offers a new era that might be called the phenomenocene . This is our commonplace, our common destiny. anti...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 February 2021
... are accurate and compatible, and what true compatibility might look like. To answer this final question, I turn to recent debates about form and formalization and A. R. Ammons’s book-length poem, Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974). Book Reviewed: Fletcher Angus , The Topological Imagination: Spheres...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that we can discern something like a “transcendental” aspect in Bernstein's poetry and philosophy, but not one that points to a God, a realm of ideals, or toward a telos, but something that exists now —a very real , but not yet actual , potential. As opposed to the merely “possible,” this potentiality...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 85–89.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of absorption, arresting the reader's attention. Difficulty is thus inherent to poetry—a difficulty challenging the reader to rise to the challenge of what it means to read poetry. A few examples like “Standing Target” are discussed briefly. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 poetics...