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... immateriality and absence, between tranquility as a positive healing phenomenon and “simply coping mechanisms for life under neoliberal capitalism” (21). In many ways this offers us echoes of the work of the late Mark Fisher, drawing out a subtle interplay between neoliberalism as a structure of feeling...

... that the absence of human subjects allows the filmmaker to articulate a broader discourse on space, so that the films can be described as “spatial fictions.” Keiller, by aligning his work with various strands of utopian thinking on space—from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre and the situationists—forces us...

...Irving Goh Abstract This essay looks at the apparent absence of melancholy in the thought and writings of Jean-Luc Nancy. It is not an insignificant absence, given that Nancy does regret it especially in light of an intellectual history that links melancholy to the idea of genius. In other words...

... itself must now be imagined as a disarticulate user of postcinematic media, producing images that display a stunning indifference to the presence or absence of the human species. Close examination of Chatonsky's work will reveal a radical ecopolitics defined by a concern for what Alexander Galloway has...

... , but rather the world itself in its contingent unfolding and its radical absence of meaning. It is to this more enigmatic evil that Kernal, the hero of Dantec's 2003 novel Villa Vortex devotes himself, ironically entering the police force in order to hasten our society's collapse into chaos and Total War...

... dynamics that have traditionally structured public space. It analyzes the different ways in which masks create transformative in-between spaces that signify the presence of a deliberately unspecified absence and therefore facilitate the possibility of thinking differently. It concludes that this strategic...

...? How to share the absence of life, of this specific life: how to share the death of Nancy? In this commemorative essay, Aukje van Rooden investigates these questions in an attempt to make sense of Nancy's passing. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Jean-Luc...

... what our political leaders must have known for years: that our economic system is inherently unstable and corrupt and cannot be controlled by the weak regulatory systems that exist in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the euro zone. In the absence of a genuine political and economic...

... drive. Freeing the primary processes from the negativity of lack would enable us to experience events in all their unique haeccity, without making them objects for knowledge: forestalling the re-presentation of presence. Yet despite the absence of an account of desire in Cage—as Austin Clarkson (2001...

... an occasion for grief. This absence of grief is, as Judith Butler's recent work argues, ethically and politically significant, because, as she puts it, it is only when the loss of life matters that the value of life becomes apparent. “Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value...

... cargo. Evoked in modes of absence, as fallen, displaced, or disappeared, it is bodily alienation – the distance between corporeality and reified notions of individuality, as in the monument's appeal to the heroic citizen-subject – that is reiterated and mourned in these works. However, despite...

... the contemporary absence of such systems. Thus Stiegler ( 2019 : 318–19) argues that the issue today is no longer at all that of struggling against some pre-emptive right claimed by the Church over intergenerational relations. If this was the case for a long time, and if the struggle against patriarchy...

... and the responses to it that the role of the intellectual is to engage in just this sort of public stoush. On the other hand Collini leisurely reviews the perceived absence of intellectuals in Britain. The notion of an intellectual is, or was, altogether too French, too continental, for the British, or perhaps...

... and in the absence of individual efficacy to deal with the epidemic had severely reduced responsibilities in the battle against the disease: to obey and behave according to the dictates of the state, for their own good and that of everyone. For example, as mentioned earlier, temperature-taking exercises had...

... a channel where desiring forces come to be bound, still leaves the figure and its nonsignifying quality out of reach. Bamford very carefully underlines this remainder of absence, of negativity, as it is what distinguishes Lyotard from the notion of desire as a fundamental “yes” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix...

... the philosophical ideal of human happiness and the offerings of modern leisure; she writes in The Human Condition of the false allure of leisure in modern society, which cannot deliver “the universal demand for happiness” and becomes merely an absence of pain (1958: 133–34). Adhering to “the right to the pursuit...

... it is precisely through the absence of speech that the limitations of language in accounting for the affect are connoted. While linguistic sense denotes, the silence or the tone of the voice connotes. While language transfers communicable sentences—translatable and paraphrasable—the grain of the voice...

... modernity, the military roots of the information age, and relations to ruin and redevelopment ( fig. 1 ). There are a series of binaries at work in representations of Bletchley: revelation and coyness display and absence depth and surface Different approaches to a site of myth...

.... It is the breakage of the all-too-smooth passage between sense and making sense, the emergence of virtuality and possibilities or resistance, and the affect that connect and mobilize the public. It may generate from the redistribution of the sensibles and the absence of the sensibles. A humorous incident...

... of the consulting room out into the open, disclosing signs of occupancy and domestic rituals. The intimacy was thus revealed in the absence of the dweller, through the traces of his former presence. Thanks to this photographic feature we note that one side of the dwelling contained the family apartment, where...