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Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 103–132.
Published: 01 February 2019
... in the 1940s and its much later rise to ideological dominance in the 1980s? Second, how do we account for the difference between neoliberalism as a constructed philosophy and neoliberalism as a “commonsense” ideology? It explores these questions through a reading of “neoliberal subjectivity,” particularly...
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Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 271–294.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of this essay of mine is to explore the less-thought-about end of the dialectic: tolerance from below. What happens when we make the object of tolerance into a reflective subject, perhaps even one possessing some sort of agency, and indeed a capacity for tolerance itself? But before I take up this question...
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Criticism and Society: The Birth of the Modern Critical Subject in China
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 153–176.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Q. S. Tong; Xiaoyi Zhou Duke University Press 2002 Criticism and Society: The Birth of the
Modern Critical Subject in China
Q. S. Tong and Xiaoyi Zhou
Over the past ten years or so, there have been repeated calls in China...
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“I Am I Be”: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 97–114.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Alexander G. Weheliye Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘I Am I Be The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity
Alexander G. Weheliye
We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone.
—Edouard Glissant, Poetics...
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Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination Daniel T. O Hara What follows is an encounter between the most classically rational- ist imagination among today s philosophers and the most stereotypically irrational...
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“The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; Or, the Terror in Global Terrorism
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 55–69.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Cry of Its Occasion”:
On the Subject of Truth; or, The Terror in Global Terrorism
Daniel T. O’Hara
My essay will skirt the edges of literature. For my primary concern...
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The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 81–112.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the recognition paradigm (Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, and Judith Butler) in order to argue that none of them can adequately account for the formation of various female subjects of globalization. It then addresses the following questions: How does the account of normativity in the recognition paradigm ironically...
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Accounting for Democracy: Excessive Subjects in a State of Consensus
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 115–144.
Published: 01 August 2021
... engaging with the reasons for the contumacious resistance that those (marginalized, emerging) subjects designated as excessive represent and the distress they produce. Only in such a scenario can new, alternative democratic imaginaries and collective identities emerge. As Étienne Balibar has written...
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Primed for Suffering: Gender, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship in Spanish Crisis Cinema
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 215–251.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sarah Thomas Examining three fiction films ( Techo y comida , Ayer no termina nunca , and Magical Girl ), this essay illuminates the traces of the economic crisis in recent Spanish cinema, focusing on how it is inscribed on female-gendered bodies and subjectivities. In exploring how female pain...
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On the Frontal Subjects of the Hindi Melodrama: Notes for a Comparative Approach to Film
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Valentina Vitali Duke University Press 2006 On the Frontal Subjects of the Hindi Melodrama:
Notes for a Comparative Approach to Film
Valentina Vitali
1. The View from the Center
This essay attempts to arrive...
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Apocalyptic Memories and Subjective Movements: Differentiation by Political Power in Postwar Japan
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 55–61.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in 2011 Apocalyptic Memories and Subjective Movements:
Differentiation by Political Power in Postwar Japan
Toshio Ochi
The Consummation of the Polity
In order to make sense of the organization of postwar Japanese poli-
tics...
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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
... of rampant subjectivity, exercising total domination over materials, but equally of rampant essences that mold or mock the ego. It is associated no less with heightened subjective expression than it is with the opposite: depersonalization, objectivity, ontology. The essay attempts to theorize this seeming...
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The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 27–46.
Published: 01 February 2009
... or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize egalitarian militancy, or what Badiou would call fidelity to a truth-procedure? The article combines an account of this little...
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“When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 191–220.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Soyica Diggs Colbert “‘When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead’: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World ” puts thing theory in conversation with theorizations of temporality, claiming that things rupture the subject/object binary by dislocating...
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The Cul-de-Sac of Schmittian Political Theology: The Case of Paul Kahn’s Analysis of American Power
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 83–135.
Published: 01 February 2013
... it is a repository of truths hidden from rational subjectivity and belying the foundations of the liberal state. Such claims rest on highly disputable theories of secularization that selectively sample the past and themselves simplify the interrelationships between profane reason and religious lifeworlds that have...
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Perverse Tongues, Postsocialist Translations
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2014
... and indices of a more general global condition is not merely the social and economic marginality of these subjects. As they resist both the liberal dream of common humanity that might be achieved through recognition and the neoliberal dream of prosperity that is indifferent to the human as such, the novel...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2015
...? In other words, what use are innovative forms and approaches in telling raced or unraced stories by raced subjects? Conversely, what's at stake for the white writer who takes up racial subjects without hedging, pleasing, or apology? And, lastly, is there something about the contemporary moment...
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The Bildungsroman of an Artist for New China: Fu Lei's Family Letters, 1954–1966
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 137–163.
Published: 01 May 2024
... socialist literature and a telling participation in the utopian historical-aesthetic project of socialist subject formation. Reading the Family Letters as a coincidental socialist bildungsroman allows us to see Fu's “heart and mind's journey” in the early decades of the People's Republic, challenging...
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China and the Question of Freedom
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 53–76.
Published: 01 February 2011
.... Pivotal for my treatment of these questions is a distinction I draw between de facto freedom and the value of freedom, the latter in turn understood in terms of a larger notion of agency, and divided into such distinct dimensions as moral resource, right, and mode of subjection. This distinction allows me...
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“Determined and Unmoved”: Wordsworth's Materialism
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 99–128.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Tom Eyers If scholars of Wordsworth have differed considerably in their interpretation of the poet's invocations of nature and subjectivity, there has been broad agreement that it is these and allied themes that determine the poetry's importance. In contrast, this essay identifies a deep seam...
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