... conversations on aesthetics, science, and creationism in the twentieth century, and finally examine an actual text written by a troupe of Sulawesi macaques. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 artificial intelligence intelligent design posthumanism algorithm text generation References...

...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s “The Future of Reading? Memories and Thoughts Toward a Genealogical Approach” asks a fundamental question: How does the younger generation of students and readers approach a text, and in which ways does their constant reading via one online device...

...Tan Lin A “SOFT INDEX (OF repeating PLACES, PEOPLE, AND WORKS)” comprises, hors-texte , a generic document, where the generic is understood to be a frequency of the unpublishable. As anecdote, it forms one of the unwritten limits (i.e., poetry) to the published, on a spectrum that includes...

... custody of her daughter. Yet it is not merely the social and eco- nomic marginality of these subjects that makes these texts apt reflections on the pernicious effects of the neoliberal order and thus, also, indices or instances of a more general global condition. More precisely than...

... archaic style? There are generally two different ways of reading a text. One is to treat it as a historical document: via textual verification and research, we can trace out clues as to how the text took shape as well as its histori- cal significance until reaching an understanding...

...Samuel Weber Militarization is effective generally through its ability to mobilize not just thinking but also feelings. But any investigation of militarization, whether focused on thinking or feeling, will remain abstract if it does not also consider the forms in which violence occurs...

... Hall, among others, at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Study in the UK; and research generated by the Indian Subaltern Studies group are testimonials to Gramsci's ongoing legacy. These texts followed Gramsci in performing a multifaceted examination of language, political, and social...

...Shoshana Adler Abstract White supremacists fetishize the crusading knight; queer theorists claim an identification with the generative secret of the premodern sodomite. This essay attends to the epistemological circuits of transhistorical identification, examining the claims of recursive history...

... awry what I long for array (M, 173) When documentary reaches a certain density, it morphs into its opposite— the hyperreal of “factual telepathy.” As in Georges Perec’s La Vie mode d’emploi, the more “individual little factlets” the text generates, the less the reader knows what...

...’ essays to speak for themselves, so I will only add here a final general comment. I find the contemporary scholarly alignments of English-language texts with translations of texts from other languages (and so cultural con- texts) to be too often exercises in what I would call “critical...

... to linguistic or signifying structures. This enables him to argue that Benjamin’s account of Paris comprehends the city as text, in the sense of Jacques Derrida’s generalized textuality. That is, the city is ultimately con- Tseng 2003.2.27 07:19...

..., as a counterpoint to the divisions of American society. In each case, one is forced to ask questions about language and genre within texts with which students are familiar as a way of establishing those very questions for texts that inevitably seem both linguistically and generically unified to late- twentieth...

... in the history of the discipline as a whole; but I will mention a few. In Europe, the first generation of reader-response criticism, led by Wolfgang Iser, stands accused of running aground on the assumption that texts would always generate the same response and “had trouble accounting for the text's presence...

... for Benjamin, it is imperative that the notion of ‘‘text’’ be taken in the larger sense assigned to it some thirty-five years ago by Jacques Derrida, who, in his pro- grammatic essay Of Grammatology, argued for a notion of a ‘‘generalized...

... to bear this in mind as s/he reads the text of a speech I gave at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association in 2003, marking the twentieth anniversary of Paul de Man’s death. Should one read figure this way, to account for one’s own work, since the agenda is to indicate ‘‘learning...

..., but the Bible and the exegetical lore of the Jews and Chris- tians contributed details to the stories, details that al-­Yaʿqūbī tire- lessly sought. (197) I find this, in general, to be an apt description of the method of al-­Yaʿqūbī; however, from my own reading of the Arabic text...

... and the related markup languages used to shape the look of text on the Web are only ever suggestions. The tags of HTML are general structural descriptions; by its very nature, the end result of markup is impossible to fix precisely: the compatibility and interpretation of different browsers cannot always...

... generations. These four grew into a more and more sophisticated habit of networking, for “they established contacts between otherwise far-flung naturalists and per- mitted them to maintain those contacts for years” (75). The first generation comprised mainly Italian humanists and physicians, working...

...Oliver Simons Paul North’s The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation is one of the few books to have analyzed Kafka’s so-called Zürau Aphorisms , a collection of short texts from 1917–1918. North reads these notations as “reflections” in the tradition of ontological philosophy, “thoughts...

...); and Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). 18. General transformative formulations of a questioning of this presumption can be ref- erenced in two early texts of Heidegger: Being and Time, 19–64; and An Introduction...