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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Kathleen Biddick Abstract Centered on the opening scene of reading staged by Giorgio Agamben in his study of reading machines, The Open: Man and Animal , this article considers how Agamben’s own messianic reading of an illuminated page from a medieval Ashkenazi Bible (Biblioteca Ambrosiana MSS B 30...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 95–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to
animal studies and posthumanism. The psychoanalytic theory and crit-
icism of Jacques Lacan and Hortense Spillers also loom large as infl u-
ences. Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal (Stanford: Stanford Uni-
versity Press, 2004); Lacan, É crits: A Selection, trans. Bruce...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 121–158.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of
Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?” Ethics and Environment
11, no. 1 (2006): 97–132; Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Compari-
son: Human and Animal Slavery (New York: Mirror Books/I.D.E.A.,
1997); Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, trans. Kevin
Attell (Stanford: Stanford...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 87–115.
Published: 01 December 2011
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ple, and Signifi cant Otherness (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press,
2003); Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am, ed. Marie-
Louise Mallet, trans. David Walls (New York: Fordham University
Press, 2008); and Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal
(Urbana: University...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 373–389.
Published: 01 December 2019
... those inspired by Sylvia Wynter’s work, which charts the colonial emergence of the Western figure of “Man”— charge that the attempt to go beyond or after “the human” moves too quickly over the plight of those never considered properly human in the first place. To throw out human-centered concern risks...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 June 2004
... arguing for me; he is famously eloquent). "As
in the case of all things in this world," he writes,
the faculty of reason, which gives man such great advan-
tages over the animals, has its special disadvantages,
and opens up to him paths of error [Abwege] into which...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 65–93.
Published: 01 December 2016
... 2016 vol. 25, nos. 1–2
mans evident— but because the animism of Amazonian and other
indigenous peoples exposes it as their polar opposite.
This geography of being can thus be taken as an anti- genealogy.
The criticism, made several times in France, that the analogism De...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 235–247.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., undeveloped fi gures— the animal, the un-emancipated
woman, and the slave. Where once the animal had been the hu-
man’s ontological other, now the animal became a reminder of un-
actualized humanity.
The narrative of progress and the instrumentalization of suf-
fering illuminate British offi cials...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
... they are what they are. Even if we could extrapolate a more general answer to our question from the peculiar circumstances of Frederick’s case—dogs are the best friend of a man whose status makes it difficult to be friends with other humans and who is too emotionally injured to leave himself open to other...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 5–21.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that “disability studies can help us to under-
stand animal oppression differently” with its reevaluation of the
concepts and valuations of independence, nature, and normalcy,
as well as the fi eld’s opening up of how we understand embodi-
16 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2
ment...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 December 2011
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menting on my inability to stand completely upright when out of
my wheelchair—my inability to stand straight like a normal hu-
man being. I understood that saying I was like an animal separated
me from other people. Whether I considered if the statement meant
that I was less...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the unethicality by
which “humanity” is lived means, in this case, to become an other to
the self, to become an other to the human. It means to think outside
4 qui parle fall/winter 2016 vol. 25, nos. 1–2
the normative bounds of the human, to betray one’s species, even, in
order to open up...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., 1966). (Warburg quotes Frank Hamilton
Cushing relaying "what an Indian had once said to him: 'Why should a man stand
higher than an animal? Look at the antelope. It is a Run. It runs so much better than
a man. Or the bear, it is just Strength. Men can only...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 161–170.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-
lous is that, while we usually only call people animals as an insult, hu-
mans are animals— rational, political, zoological— and therefore the
distinction between human and nonhuman animals can strike us as
only partial. Nealon points out that for Aristotle, who endowed veg-
etative life-forms...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 295–382.
Published: 01 December 2017
... at the door. The man leaped up in terror—just as the door swung open. A short, balding gentleman stood on the doorstep. “Good evening. I am the Viper. I come to vash your vindows. Vhere should I start?” This joke is neither particularly funny nor scary, nor even scary-funny. But it does neatly...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 157–181.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and thus, by extension,
of mortals and immortals— at the very intersection of Gods, hu-
mans, and animals—the “thing” mixes in mutual belonging the
corruptible and the eternal, the material and the divine. The thing
is what preserves this mixture through its own immobility...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 71–83.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of defi nition applies equally to human and to animal phona-
tion organs (Oxford English Dictionary). The inclusion of the ani-
mal is worth noting not only because the connection of the voice to
the body ends up underscoring the physiological affi nity between
man and animal—at least...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., it is for that reason called persona , the o being lengthened because of the formation of the word.” On the prosôpon and the voice, see also Aristotle , Parts of Animals , 216–17 (3.1.662b18–22): “We have now, I think, spoken of practically all the parts that have their place in the head; but in man, the portion...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 263–278.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., the biological may open paths on
tangent from Man. In this new humanism, the human is biological
but not quite an organism, ecological but not quite a species.
I am drawn to Lee’s provocative call to re-immerse the human in
a broader web of life- forms. However, great caution...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 275–297.
Published: 01 December 2011
... birds, gardening ants, calm, subver-
sive sheep, whose wool holds fi eld upon fi eld of seed. And the hu-
man—an animal shaken by incessant movements, free trader of
diversity.
Evolution benefi ts from all of this. Not society. The slightest
management project runs up against provisional...
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