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Rethinking “After Auschwitz”: Against a Rhetoric of the Unspeakable in Holocaust Writing
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 203–228.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Naomi Mandel Duke University Press 2001 Rethinking ‘‘After Auschwitz Against a Rhetoric of the
Unspeakable in Holocaust Writing
Naomi Mandel
1. Just What Part of ‘‘Auschwitz’’ Don’t We Understand?
When Theodor Adorno...
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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
..., of the radical
excess of the real over the lack [of desire in the symbolic order].
It is [thus] the destruction of the symbolic network by what reveals
itself, here in the opening, of the unspeakable encounter. [Conse-
quently,] it is necessary to channel anxiety’s...
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The Epiphany of Language: The Connotation of Zen-Taoism in Charles Bernstein's Echopoetics
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 163–183.
Published: 01 November 2021
... unspeakable nothingness as the premise of aesthetics (Qiu Zihua and Yu Rui 2006 : 101), but the starting point of traditional Western philosophy is “being,” whereas “nothingness” is considered meaningless and unknowable. Heidegger and Hegel are familiar with Taoist philosophy. Hegel once called “Xuwu/虚无...
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The Double Agent: NOB / RD
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 45–53.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Propositions” is whether War is a local conflict or the enactment of change and transformation that is the basis of life itself. “Treachery,” “shameful hidden purpose,” “unspeakable,” “guilty secret,”—such overdetermined language seeks to foreground Brown's work as heretical, putting flesh on Love's...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 213–215.
Published: 01 May 2000
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and Theory. London and New York: Cassell, 1999.
Buchanan, Ian, ed. A Deleuzian Century. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
1999.
Burt, Richard. Unspeakable ShaXXXspeare’s: Queer Theory and American Kiddie...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 209–212.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to the Popular. Durham, NC: Duke Uni-
versity Press, 2011.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and
Art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Guidotti- Hernandez, Nicole M. Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexi-
can National Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke...
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Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “the Voice of Silence,” Part 2
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 133–155.
Published: 01 August 2001
... discourse of hegemony is not
only to thematize—to give voice to—these hitherto invisible and unspeak-
able ambiguities but also to endow them with a positive ontological force. In
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so doing, I claimed...
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Words You Burn Down: Toward a Poetics of Umfarshtandlekh Translation
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., in deep memory, where all absence is made present again at the site/sight of the unspeakable. He stares into the incomprehensibility of reality itself—“I can't believe I'm here,” he says (Lanzmann 1985 ). Before we read Celan, I ask my students to study Srebrnik's face as they would a poem, to search...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 287–291.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., 1999.
Fraser, Kathleen. Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity.
Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.
Freedman, Carl. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan Uni-
versity Press, 2000.
Gabler-Hover, Janet...
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South Africa: On Becoming an Ordinary Country
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2007
... that must be told and recounted. It is a story
about unspeakable things, about characters like Dr. Death, about the killing
fields of Vlakpass. It is therefore about the spectacle and the heroism of
those who defied it. These are stories of protest. But there are other stories
to be told...
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Perverse Tongues, Postsocialist Translations
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2014
... Witkowski’s quasi-journalistic novel Lovetown (2004) and Szabolcs
Hajdu’s magical-realist film Bibliothèque Pascal (2010) document what is
otherwise, quite literally, unspeakable and invisible. Lovetown tracks an
aging queer community for whom the transition to capitalism and liberal
democracy...
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Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “the Voice of Silence,” Part 1
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 105–131.
Published: 01 May 2001
... writing as the ravings of a
madman and its deviant morality as an unspeakable offense against Ameri-
can decency perfectly understood this relationship between ‘‘the world’’ and
silence:
But when he dares to outrage every principle of virtue [the reference
is in part to the theme...
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Xenoflesh: A Zoēpoetics of Meat
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 63–99.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., Orpheus is ever ready to sacrifice representational possibility, the fact of Eurydice in the world of the living, due to a preethical commitment to the unspeakable linguistic impossibility at the core of subject- being (the night of her death in the place of night). Blanchot does not come close...
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Experiments in Civility
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 43–74.
Published: 01 February 2016
... to as “interdiction”75 perhaps evinced an incipient form
of truly civil politics.
As an experimental and underdetermined practice, civility does
not entail the dissolution of subjects into disidentified and yet normatively
74. Jairo Moreno, “On the Ethics of the Unspeakable,” in Speaking of Music...
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Chinese Education in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and marketized education fattens the aca-
demic elite in the city, it is ruthlessly robbing and marginalizing the rural
population, throwing millions of peasant families into unspeakable and
unprecedented destitution, distress, and despair. Today, marketized health
care, industrialized education...
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Terrific Register: The Gothicization of Atrocity in Irish Romanticism
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2004
... unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very
wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which con-
sidering that there was an illustration to every number, in which there was
always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap 4 Dickens him-
self was later to explore the paradox...
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Draft 52: Midrash
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 February 2006
... toll through sediment—
at unspeakable untellable yod,
wood, leather, fabric, organic char, ash of ash, then
also there is the tiredness
of pursuing anything
like this.
3.
The chair recognizes two points of information.
By making this statement, were you trying...
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War, Home, and Permanent Exile: Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia and William Spanos’s In the Neighborhood of Zero
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 February 2015
... and War
Only now, in the twilight of my life, after many years of obses-
sively teaching and writing around this singular and unspeakable
event . . . have I been able to do away with the scaffolding that has
cluttered everything I have written.
—William V. Spanos...
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Scholarship in the Neighborhood of Zero: William V. Spanos in Theory and Practice
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 February 2015
... to living an intel-
lectual life animated by care and concern. In “obsessively teaching and
writing around this singular and unspeakable event,” Spanos has under-
taken what Said identified as the “unending” technique of trouble that
he understood humanism to be in the present global occasion (NZ, xv...
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The Double Disavowals of Theory's “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 99–114.
Published: 01 November 2024
... which is unspeakable: the mystical. While Wittgenstein's Tractatus is an attempt to establish the limits of language through logic, his subsequent Philosophical Investigations ( 1958 ) turns toward an account of language games, the practical life of languages so to speak: there is no metalanguage...
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