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Figures of Cosmopolitanism in the Postcolonial Present
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Matthew Suazo By expanding the frame of Paul Gilroy's post-9/11 intervention in Postcolonial Melancholia to include post–Hurricane Katrina discourse, this essay aims to more specifically elaborate the present moment—Gilroy's “postcolonial present”—as a space and time in which to combat...
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Our Unnamable Present: On Roberto Calasso’s Weltanschauung
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 213–220.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Alberto Comparini In this review essay, I take on Roberto Calasso’s Unnamable Present and offer a critical framework to understand his thought after the publication of The Ruin of Kasch in 1983 and his vision of the world of our contemporary society. I argue that, by broadening Zygmunt Bauman’s...
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Dispatches to the Dead: Delegation, Consumption, and Mischievous Pleasure (Thinking with Robert Pfaller in the So-called Present)
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 295–313.
Published: 01 May 2022
... For his part, Pfaller tends to the psychoanalytic form of explanation, but not without a critique of political economy along the lines of ideology that, ironically, itself remains by and large latent. That is to say that any political and economic discourse in Pfaller tends to be allusively present but un...
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Imagination, Politics, and Utopia: Confronting the Present
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 151–159.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Anthony Bogues Duke University Press 2006 Imagination, Politics, and Utopia: Confronting the Present
The relationships between the imagination, ways of life, and desire
are central to any consideration of the political. In thinking about these re-
lationships and their links...
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The Imperial Present and the Second Coming of Fascism
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Harry Harootunian Duke University Press 2007 Interventions
The Imperial Present and the Second Coming of Fascism
Despite the noisy rhetoric promising to free Iraq, America’s imperial
war is being pursued...
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Modernist Apparitions, or When a Situation Presents Itself
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 63–93.
Published: 01 November 2019
... contradiction, arguing that a dialectical trajectory connects its two extremes. The discussion moves from an immanent critique of formalism to a model of the modernist work as “apparition,” an immanence that “presents itself.” It concludes by insisting that this dialectical trajectory be seen as a historically...
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The Generative Politics of Presentism in Post-15M Spain
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 169–190.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Katryn Evinson This essay revises post-15M movement political party landscape, emphasizing the intentional yet unusual use of the present within the New Left's organizing grammar. Against sectors of the traditional Left, who see presentism as a product of neoliberalism, I claim that in the post-15M...
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The Measure of the Contingent: Walter Benjamin's Dialectical Image
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Eli Friedlander The present essay sketches in broad outlines the philosophical armature of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project by analyzing the central theoretical notion in that incomplete manuscript of his: the dialectical image. So as to bring out the uniqueness of Benjamin's use of image, I...
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Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 125–153.
Published: 01 May 2011
... , the modern Chinese vernacular, offer important insights into the mission-encumbered language of China's present-day intellectual elite. As the critical exemplar of choice in intellectual China, Lu Xun's evocative formulations, together with his aspiration to transform hearts and minds through baihua , have...
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Crisis and World Temporality: The Post-Fukushima Binary of the Everyday
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 97–112.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of history, especially his interrogations of human temporality in the 1930s. Miki's idea of the binary of genzai (the present) and gendai (the modern) that he developed during wartime resembles the duality of everyday experience in the postearthquake nuclear crisis of the current century. Simultaneously...
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Perverse Tongues, Postsocialist Translations
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... The “postsocialist” here marks modes of personhood and locution that are perverse with respect to the reproductive aims of the post-1989 order. Deriving from the socialist past but not reducible either to its official doctrines or to its official dissident cultures, these modes persist in the present and disable...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 71–98.
Published: 01 May 2014
... constructions that cannot be contained within a uniform conceptual frame, such as Islamic “authenticity.” The past is shared, and the present is as well. The Arab Spring demonstrates that modernity confronts political actors with similar problems, whatever their background. The essay addresses successive...
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Postcolonial Nativism? Exploring the Postsecularist Critique of History on Sri Lanka
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 103–126.
Published: 01 November 2018
... counterpart in its desire to move beyond the legacies of the Enlightenment. David Scott initiated this critique by arguing that seemingly endless debates between contesting versions of national historiography demonstrate the limits of using the past to find justice in the present. Qadri Ismail builds...
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Song Time, the Time of Narratives, and the Changing Idea of Nation in Postindependence Cinema
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... Through a close reading of select song sequences from both popular and art cinema, I demonstrate how they may be read as allegories of temporal sensibilities at odds with the temporality presented in the main narrative of the film. Songs condense a heterogeneous variety of pasts and possible futures...
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Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 39–62.
Published: 01 May 2011
... qualifies this by stressing the limited number of persons with unmitigatedly sincere intention. He ultimately takes China's scholar-gentry to task for having a far greater degree of moral culpability in the present situation than they are willing to admit, rather than blaming it all on the corruption...
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Postdigital Global Literary History: On the Fourth Edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 213–239.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Brian Reed This review essay takes the occasion of the publication of the Fourth Edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics to ask what it might mean, in the digital present, to use print as a medium for trying to speak comprehensively and authoritatively about the history...
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Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon's World and Ours
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 313–335.
Published: 01 August 2016
... the objective conditions are met; and called for a thorough diagnosis of the present's particularity. In doing so, the essay seeks to complicate retrospective sketches of Arab Marxists, such as Susan Buck-Morss's, that depict them as elitist and vanguardist modernizers and oppose them to immanent Islamist...
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Affirming the Human in China
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 57–90.
Published: 01 February 2010
... for educated persons to conduct themselves as moral exemplars. In this essay, the divergent ramifications of this Confucian dictum are explored via several Chinese thinkers including Huang Zongxi, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, and Mao Zedong. Their intellectual legacies are considered in relation to present-day uses...
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Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 217–228.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., through the life of the Republic, condemned that propensity to submit to government authority and the opinion of the majority. The Chinese praise the rebel against authority in a way that would shock foreigners who think only in stereotypes. The problem at the present time in the world, and especially...
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Bios the Logosphere the Finite-Made Evolver Space
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., Morgantown, September 15-17, 2006. When I present this piece in a performance context, it is simultaneous with a kind of multimedia slide show illustrating some of the text materials and text operations discussed. Bios / The Logosphere / The Finite-Made Evolver Space...
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