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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 87–98.
Published: 01 August 2013
... was radically subversive. But why should we need, or even be interested in, Lucretius now? Greenblatt’s narrative is not new, and in it he misinterprets the role atomism plays in our lives. Atomism is no longer a liberating idea; this essay argues that it is the very thing that incapacitates us today. The Right...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 109–127.
Published: 01 May 2002
...David Palumbo-Liu Duke University Press 2002 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th David Palumbo-Liu The events of September 11th and following have been shocking...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 191–197.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Kevin McLaughlin Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 195 of 224 6808 boundar Benjamin Now: Afterthoughts on The Arcades Project Kevin McLaughlin...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2024
... centuries of English poetry and poetic drama beginning from the 1590s. This means now, in 2024, that ever fewer readers are ready to meet him where the weight of his attention falls. Therefore it's good to have the scholarly assistance the new edition provides, offering the footnotes that Empson didn't...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 August 2023
... scholars share the “now” with each other and with their predecessors from other millennia? And how might this perspective transform racial epistemologies? Inspired by the millennial thinker, Henry of Huntingdon (d. 1157), the article connects the Long Now Foundation, the 10,000-Year Clock, the poet T. S...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 133–172.
Published: 01 August 2024
... maneuvers of these works has ambitions to a kind reality that has nothing to do with the real world. Just yesterday you were stricken by the mimetic and objective style of that popular discourse —the great ideology of reality— And now there it is in the ground: and no one, now, feels so unworthy...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters 2005 Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man’s Death Lindsay Waters And so let us then—by light...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2022
... incessantly wandered: today we meet a different world. The articles that follow, gleaned from cooperative reflection, testify to a mode of intellectual activity seemingly—or, at least for now—bygone. One year has passed since “Brown: Into the Future,” a collaborative inquiry into the life and work...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 1–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Colin Dayan In the dark drama and shock tactics of the Trump White House, I found myself obsessed with Dorothy Dandridge, a woman I had been quite unaware of until now. In following her traces, I recall the South in the sixties, race discrimination and raw hate, as well as recognize her particular...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 113–127.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Tom Looser For some time now, Japan has been teetering on the point of fundamental, historical transformation. Neoliberalist contractions, natural catastrophes, and the nuclear disaster have contributed to an era of crisis that is local to Japan, while they are also an ongoing bellwether of global...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht For some years now, inside observers have felt that literary studies has arrived at a moment of stagnation. Not only has a fifty-year-long sequence of changing “paradigms” come to a standstill since the final years of the twentieth century; not only are we longing for new...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Christian Bök Current writers among the avant-garde have begun to subvert the romantic bastions of sublime creativity and eminent authorship by adopting both piracy and parody as sovereign, aesthetic values. Such exponents of what critics have now dubbed “conceptual literature” disavow the lyrical...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 123–149.
Published: 01 August 2010
...R. A. Judy “Literature,” Orhan Pamuk once remarked, “is the greatest treasure we, humanity, have to discuss and to understand ourselves; and now, the most popular, most intelligent, most flexible form of literature today, in the last two hundred years in fact, is the great art of the novel...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2012
...” evangelicalism plays in American political and cultural life. Using Erich Auerbach’s understanding of “passio” as a guide, I suggest ways in which Ellison’s novel figures a worldly vision of human passion and belonging that is a rebuttal to the ultranationalist evangelicalism of the eighties and now. Book...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., a growing transparency of the world, where life of faraway people fascinates and attracts. Such a spatial disposition, where the object of desire always slips away into a different space, at the same time accessible and out of reach for now, supplies the fuel for the capitalist machine. It seems...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 167–190.
Published: 01 February 2017
... a viable remedy for what Stiegler has astutely diagnosed as the capture of available brain time? Or is it rather more of a throwback to a moment of cultural history (and of the theorization of culture) that has now been superseded, in large part, because of technical advance? © 2017 by Duke University...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 239–265.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of “light,” which are the hypomnemata , or inscriptions, themselves. The progressivist and utopist styles, and weak messianism, which defined twentieth-century critical projects, themselves fueled the ecocidal trajectory. Any future war over inscriptions, the last perimeters of which bots now probe...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Ping-hui Liao Since the 1949 great divide between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan has been under pressure to seek recovery from or reunification with China. Now, with the rise of China as a global superpower and the redeployment of a trans-Pacific military, as well...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 61–78.
Published: 01 August 2018
... that a generation of young, frank-talking critics has been born into this now not-so-young democracy. Often called the politics of xiangmin (literally “country people”) for their style of straightforwardness, this new contentious activity in Taiwan involves netizens as cyberactors and presents the most recent force...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 73–101.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Frank Pasquale Though artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and education now accomplishes diverse tasks, there are two features that tend to unite the information processing behind efforts to substitute it for professionals in these fields: reductionism and functionalism. True believers...