...Ronald Mendoza–de Jesús Abstract Although Walter Benjamin anticipated a confrontation with Martin Heidegger regarding the theory of historical knowledge, this confrontation was never fully elaborated. This essay contributes to filling out this lacuna by arguing that Benjamin’s concept...

...Anna Feuerstein Abstract This essay analyzes two late Victorian texts by white women colonists in South Africa—F. Clinton Parry’s children’s book African Pets (1880) and Annie Martin’s memoir Home Life on an Ostrich Farm (1890)—to nuance understandings of animality as racialization. By reading...

....” It elaborates the philosophical and anthropological implications of a rigorous notion of form of life through Asad’s concept of tradition and Martin Heidegger’s rereading of Aristotle’s physis . Interrupting this theoretical argument, a scene from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with Orthodox Christian...

... laws of thought identity Martin Heidegger The corpus of Jean-Luc Nancy opens deconstruction onto a world where the games of “returns” to “origins” will no longer have their place. It is not the space of paradoxes of the kind such as distantia terminorum that we will find. 1 Instead, he...

...Martin Crowley Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Being Beyond Politics, with Jean-Luc Nancy martin crowley The work of Jean- Luc Nancy is consistently drawn to the site of an almost- encounter, to a line at once decisive and ever mobile. Writ- ing on fi lm, nuclear disaster...

...Martin Saar Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Spinoza and the Political Imaginary martin saar Translated by William Callison and Anne Gräfe For those interested in pursuing the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the political imaginary— a key concept in con...

...Martin Crowley Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 No Futures (Duras 72/77) martin crowley Money, even imaginary money, needs the future to give it force. Alasdair Gray, Lanark Nineteen seventy- seven was a very fi ne year. Particularly for fans of disillusionment...

... upper-right breast pocket, next to a brushed afro, trimmed neat, closely cropped, impeccably round. Fig. 1. Three boys. Photograph courtesy of Sammlung Dr. Peter Martin, Hamburg Fig. 1. Three boys. Photograph courtesy of Sammlung Dr. Peter Martin, Hamburg In another photo the same three...

... Fournier, Marcel Mauss: A Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Felix Guattari,- The Anti-Oedipus Papers (New York: Semiotext(e), 2006). Graham Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things (Chicago: Open Court, 2005). Martin...

... of separately produced but thematically linked works by the artists Indira Allegra and Christopher R. Martin. What tied the two artists’ concerns together was precisely the question of the tie itself: the weave, the fold, the thread, and the tangle. As the description of the exhibition read, Past Presence...

... × 96 cm. Glastonbury (Somerset), Saint John the Baptist Church. Within the context of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Martin Luther’s prologue to the Old Testament serves as a theological source to underline the contrast of law and grace in relation to the Old and New Testament...

... . Never Alone except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Derrida Jacques . Artaud the Moma , translated by Kamuf Peggy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . Didi-Huberman Georges . Bark , translated by Martin...

... broken tools save the Earth. So is this book.” Notes 1. Graham Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2011), 131. Hereafter cited as gm. 2. Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture,” in The Question...

... Press, 1978), 215. 8. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Stambaugh (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), 302. Hereafter cited as BT. 9. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, A78, B103. Hereafter cited as CP. Quoted in Martin Heidegger, Kant...

... to “conscientious practitioners of civil disobedience [such] as Martin Luther King and Gandhi, [who] paid tribute to the forms of liberty by accepting their punishments and by . . . show[ing] due respect for others and the rule of law in gen- eral.”28 In the language of responsibility...

... “the simple fact of living common to all living beings (animals, humans, or gods).” 3 As feminist anthropologist Emily Martin points out, the centrality of the body in contemporary Western social forms is also closely connected to a transition that occurred toward the end of the twentieth century, from...

... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Contributors martin crowley teaches in the French department at the Univer- sity of Cambridge. His most recent book is L’homme sans: Poli- tiques de la fi nitude (2009; afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy), and he is currently researching responses...

... over- fl ows the face” (FT, 122). How this affective overfl ow might be transmitted by the photo- graphic medium is paradoxically suggested by a famous statement of the medium’s transparency: Martin Luther King Jr.’s claim that the brutality of police repression in the South...

...- ty). The premise of the 2011 sequel is a meta-cinematic one, in which Tom Six’s fi lm The Human Centipede is treated as a fi ctional object that has become the obsession of a vile, mute, developmentally- stunted man named Martin. In its representational shift , the fi lm opens...

... “is” not, but happens, and can happen only to the extent that nothing founds or preexists it. As Martin Heidegger put it, “The essence [of being] cannot be exhibited like something present at hand; its essential happening must be awaited like a shock.” 2 Thus preceded by nothing and grounded in no essence, the event...