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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 177–184.
Published: 01 August 2020
... . Witnessing the Past in the Work of W. G. Sebald Maria Malikova Translated by Timothy J. Haehn Artist and photographer Jan Peter Tripp was a key figure in the career of German writer and critic W. G. Sebald, cut short when the author perished in a car accident in eastern England, his home for more than thirty...
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in Primed for Suffering: Gender, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship in Spanish Crisis Cinema
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Published: 01 August 2021
Figures 5a and 5b. Witnessing pain. Magical Girl , dir. Carlos Vermut.
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 49–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Pierre Joris “Who witnesses for the witness?”—The question of my title may be rhetorical to the highest degree, not to say disingenuous, or at least it could be perceived as such, especially by anyone familiar with the work of Paul Celan. 1 It is a question that draws on, or rather...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 29–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as Celan failing to live up to the survivor's perceived task as witness; seen as positively emblematic, they can be interpreted as performative of (and thus also as demanding from the reader) a reading the finality of which is often—openly or not—posited as essentially soteriological. I would like to argue...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Being and Time , namely, that it takes Dasein itself as both the agent and the witness— the source of phenomenological evidence or testimony—for the inquiry. Dasein, that is, being both the philosophical inquirer and the entity that calls itself “I,” whose being is being-with “others,” can be none other...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 February 2015
...David S. Randall; Robert P. Wilson This essay examines the confluence of personal memoir, scholarship, and classroom teaching in the intellectual life. The authors trace the theme of “bearing witness” as the axiom of the intellectual vocation at three different moments in the career of William V...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 79–96.
Published: 01 August 2015
...William Marotti Late 1967 witnessed a conjunctural moment in Japan, in which a shift in activist tactics inaugurated a public debate ultimately addressing the legitimacy of force and state violence in support of strategic US objectives, and triggering mass politicization, inaugurating Japan's “1968...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 February 2018
... to achieve sustained growth if the economy is to return to precrisis levels. One premise of the current optimism is that what we are witnessing is the recovery from an ordinary recession. This, however, seriously misunderstands the nature of the crisis. The dynamic development of global neoliberalism and its...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 31–62.
Published: 01 November 2019
... that “Swift lasts.” Beginning with Said’s 1982 polemic against the church of high theory, “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, Community,” what follows demonstrates how Swift’s libertine wit, in its daring reconciliation of the human imagination with religious devotion and perhaps even divine power itself...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 99–131.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Marcia Landy The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... At the moment that these memorials bear witness to genocide as genocide, by viewing the victims anonymously, as the perpetrators also viewed them, they also show that the difference between genocide and mass death cannot be represented by bones. In this way, they collapse the foundations of two apparently...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 217–225.
Published: 01 May 2010
...” to elaborate the transformative energies of what California still stands for as worlding edge-space, as a temporal promise of social transformation and popular-cultural redemption not quite over. In bleaker plot strands, we witness an American vernacular revolution of pop-carnivalesque energies being...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 1–38.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., or put by the latter into the former’s mouth) and the survivor’s testimony, as circumscribed in our “era of the witness.” It also reflects on Derrida’s timidity in Archive Fever , with regard to explaining the intimate relationship between the “archive” and the “great holocaustic tragedies of our modern...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of writing in common that does not serve to convey a meaning, but bears witness, in its very form, to the fragmentation of meaning? This essay examines three attempts of an affirmative answer to this question by reappraising three interrelated experimental cases: Jena around 1800 and the Athenaeum journal...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 65–76.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the last decade of his life. Not even the accusation by Marcuse of “mystification” could bring him out of his idealizations—until he saw the dialectical power of humor's ambivalence. “Spoudaiogeloion,” with room for Joyce's farcical wit and Blake's high visions, gave Brown a useful “way out” of tensions...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 33–65.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Arendt is worth tracing because it allows readers to understand her response to the post‐WWII age, which witnessed the emergence of manifold diverse “revolutions” in the social and political realm brought by decolonization, both in the European and non‐European (i.e., Asian, African, postcolonial...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 107–112.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on poetics, Bernstein, I argue, consistently articulated with wit and precision why and how radical modernism affects what Jacques Rancière has called the “distribution of the sensible.” References Andrews Bruce , and Bernstein Charles , eds. 1984 . “ Repossessing the Word...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 255–278.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Yunte Huang Abstract Composed as a series of improvisations, this is a modular essay that examines, ponders, and responds to the radical poetics of Charles Bernstein's work from multiple perspectives, including dysraphism, aphorism, wit, and echopoetics. It also situates Bernstein in the long...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Cavafy's knowledge of Arabic, the essay demonstrates his affinities and solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress as witnessed in the choice of subject matter and in the intertextual Greek-Egyptian folkloric resonances in his poem “27 June 1906, 2 P.M.” Analyzing how the poem's tropes...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 49–70.
Published: 01 May 2020
... domestic society. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 settler-colonial capitalism Korean War novel the uncanny witnessing Toni Morrison References Arrighi Giovanni . 2009 . “ The Winding Paths of Capital .” Interview by David Harvey . New Left Review 56 : 61 – 94...
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