... to make sense of the sacrifices that a nation demands of its subjects. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 violence sacrifice Japan memory representation Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Sacrifice in Contemporary Japan Christopher T...

... and the everyday, we draw on the work of Henri Lefebvre and what he called “qualitative moments.” In recalling forms of memoration, residues, remnants, and reminders of the past, such embodied specific temporal tenses can be put to work repairing breaks in the rhythms of daily life and constituting the building...

... tendencies (mobilism and broadcast) and to consider the intensive life that arises between them. Considering subjectivity not only in terms of “molar formations” (codes and ideologies) but also in terms of “molecular practices” (lived rhythms and daily activities) invites a tentative thesis about what...

... conditions and neoliberal market ideology from which it seeks critical distance, and reflects on its seemingly diminishing authority. In this context replication—syntactical repetition, rhythm, rhyme, quotation, and ready-made stanzaic forms—works as a means of acknowledging poetry’s enmeshment...

..., halting rhythms, repetitions, asides, and idiosyncratic quotes. As in the Orphic tradition, the professor becomes what he's professing: Brown teaches us to sing a love song according to the Muses, finding the meaning in the singing and in the etymology of the names of the divine sisters. Brown's nearly...

... with intuitive leaps to open up an infinite space. This is to interenact with the endless rhythm of the cosmic dance of energy of the universe to harmonize our relationship with Eastern mystic philosophy of Upanishad/Zen Buddhism as well as modern science. This essay is intended to find the quantum coherence...

...Khaled Furani A question drives my reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Mural , chronicling a poet’s quest for his own becoming while facing death: What rhythms of freedom—or what forms of enlightenment—may a person inhabit when facing life’s end? I argue that to this question Mural responds...

... step toward opening up another kind of rhythm of life, with another kind of temporality.5 Perhaps awakening potentiality itself out of an order of life that seemed to foreclose the emer- gence of anything new? So there is a more substantively fertile possibility for crisis, which is also part...

...- gested a study of Society. And Society? The prophet really had a vision of two things, the vast and bewildering activities of men and lines of rhythm that coordinate certain of these actions. So he said: ‘‘Now in the inorganic sciences, the elements are much better known to us than the Whole which...

...- poem. He likes to say, as he did during my interview with him on July 22, 2011, that the Tunisian Revolution is a work of poetry. He explained that the modern poem is a work uction.of constr From an image, a word, a rhythm, the poet constructs his poem. In contrast to the classic poet, he does...

... language form (poiein), has always been for me less a matter of semantic deployment of words, even if in complex and oblique (poetic) fashion, and more a matter of rhythm, which is not, incidentally, to be restricted to metrics or rules of prosody—of rhythm, in the simple sense that language always...

... rhythms, that call atten- tion to moments of difference revealing a society’s position in the develop- mental arc (PS, 65). These rhythms, which Lefebvre classified bodily as instants of eurhythmia, arrhythmia, polyrhythmia, invariably represent those 19. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space...

..., elegant design, neoliberal storytelling, and consensual hybrids, Bernstein cultivates the rebarbative form, the rhythm with a limp, the tortuous phrase, the syncretic, and the polemical/provocative. Against programmed obsolescence, a poetics of debris and hand-me-downs. Against the diktat of excellence...

... deconstruction and New Historicism to cultural studies and identity studies, and while we had thus gotten used to an almost regular rhythm of change in the premises of our thinking as critics and historians of literature, no new doxa has emerged in the field to challenge its predecessors since the early...

... rhythms that produce somatic movements in the performer and the listener, who “stomp the blues”—that is to say, misery and despair. The Saturday Night Function is simultaneously an exorcism rite, an instruction, a liturgy, and a mating ceremony. Echoing and counterphrasing the speaker of Shakespeare's...

.... Animals—as form, as function, as affect, as intensity—are saturating our media-machine environment. They are images, they are sounds, they are rhythms and textures, they are tastes and odors, models and products. Observe Moore’s glacier “picking periwinkles, spider...

... of the logoi, the arguments, ever stays put; they move around” (LM, 169–70). In this sense, the very rhythm of the dia-logues,­ what Arendt terms “the dia- logue of the dialegesthai” (LM, 185), is the rhythmic spacing of the logos, a rhythm that Spanos refers to as a “dislocating caesura” (58). Extending...

... and the social” (271). In other words, the paleontological basis for an understanding of aesthetics lies in the passage that derives from biological rhythms and ends in social rhythms (or descends into asocial arrhythmia). In short, aesthetics belongs within the most general human fact, which for Leroi...