... of theoretical reflection would not be possible” ( “Exilic” 133 ). The sense of timelessness paradoxically defines the regime of relevance of literary theory as limited in time (somewhere between World War I and the end of the Cold War). Today, with the sense of literary autonomy obsolete and literature...

... so enticingly terms “world theory.” In the first part of my text, I deal, foremost and from different perspectives, with the dialectics of autonomy and heteronomy. The second part focuses on the role of exile in the production and negation of theory; my two case studies examine both the potency...

... . Boston : Beacon , 1979 . 95 - 129 . Habermas Jürgen . “ A Philosophico-Political Profile .” Habermas 149 - 89 . Hall Stuart . “ Brave New World .” Marxism Today October 1988 : 24 - 29 . Hall Stuart . The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left...

.... Following Althusser, it offers a model for reading “generously” that is specific to a world in which the dominant forms of literary and cultural engagement have emerged alongside the novel as a form. The article revisits Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” as well as Alain Badiou's...

...Kimberly J. Lau Avatar suicide videos ritualize an avatar’s final exit from the virtual world. Focusing on such videos in the context of World of Warcraft , this essay argues first that the avatar-player relationship produces a fluid subjectivity; then, drawing on Judith Butler’s theory...

... . New York: New York up, 1996 . Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics . Durham: Duke up, 1996 . Marciniak, Katarzyna. Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference . u of Minnesota p, 2006 . ____. “Second Worldness and Transnational Feminist Practices...

... Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007). Balibar, Étienne. “ The Nation Form: History and Ideology .” Balibar and Wallerstein 86 -106...

.../pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html (accessed May 20, 2008). Nancy, Jean-Luc. “L'Intrus.” Trans. Susan Hanson. cr: The New Centennial Review 2.3 ( 2002 ): 1 -14. ———. The Sense of the World . Trans. Jeffrey S. Librett. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1997 . Weber, Samuel...

... referred between bodies by mirror neurons and philosophically as an injury to the flesh of the world of which we are all composed. I thank Lauren Berlant, Matthew Ratcliffe, Margaret Simmonds, and Alessandra Tanesini for helpful conversations and information; and the editors and anonymous readers...

...Naomi Morgenstern Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road , depicts a decidedly masculine subject contemplating a death that is simultaneously imagined as , and as taking place at , the end of the world. As such, the novel invites its dismissal as an extravagantly solipsistic elegy for patriarchy...

... travail . Paris : H. Dunod and E. Pinat , 1917 . Audoin-Rouzeau Stephane . Men at War: National Sentiment and Trench Journalism in France During the First World War . Trans. McPhail Helen . Providence : Berg Publishers , 1992 . Becker Jean-Jacques . The Great War...

...: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the ROlllan World be murderous came in many guises in the ancient Roman world, as parricides, poisoners, witches, assassins, rebels, corrupt officials, fire-setters, ship-wreckers, and robbers. The virtuous were besieged on all sides by murderous hordes who could...

... to examine the boundary between clinical space and the “context of the world” in which it is situated. [email protected] © 2022 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 deconstruction Frantz Fanon global modernisms Marie Langer postcolonial...

...Raphaëlle Guidée Financially choked by economic and demographic decline, the city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy federal protection in 2013. In what sense can a situation of generalized insolvency be said to pave the way for the utopia of a debt-free world? Avoiding the easy symbolism...

... of language. In the last twenty to twenty-five years, the return to philology has been a dominant part of the Anglo-Saxon discourse of “world literature,” which has turned away from theory. The return to philology is captured in a market-based adaptation of literature in terms of globalization...

...Lila Abu-Lughod The “honor crime” poses perhaps more starkly than any other contemporary cultural-legal category the dilemmas of feminist scholarship and rights activism in a transnational world. Marked as a culturally specific form of violence and given a special and stigmatizing association...

... of the second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics not only postulates a universal increase of entropy and an “arrow of time” but also has been based on human ignorance, the assumption that there is an objective world independent of us that we can know only incompletely. Maxwell’s demon...