... or exosomatic condition of all knowledge. This can be opened up from a reconsideration of Kant’s account of intuition, understanding, and reason that must also be a critique of the absence of the technological in Kant’s account of the schematism. Armed with this critique, we can understand the data economy...

...William S. Allen Abstract Blanchot’s readings of Lautréamont are among the most important writings on this challenging author, and they are also crucial for the development of his own thinking, but they have never been discussed in depth. This essay surveys the whole range of Blanchot’s writings...

... of this technical supplement that functions as the prosthetic by which man overcomes a hereditary deficiency, his original psychosis in Zola’s account, and is also the means by which he allegorizes history as progress. But this supplement must also disappear from view, or operate as a vanishing mediator. Because...

...Philip Balboni Abstract This essay works to clarify Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, arguing that this clarification has serious implications not only for Said’s project of “secular criticism” but also for understanding the workings of what he called the “critical...

... conceptions of history, time, and religious practice. This story of temporality is staked on the question of “influence,” which has a genealogy that includes not just colonial, missionary, liberal politics but also contemporary legal-political questions about foreign influence on democracy and sovereignty...

...Mathias Schönher Abstract This essay proposes that What Is Philosophy? (1991), written in collaboration with Félix Guattari, not only presents a summary of Gilles Deleuze’s late creative period and, to some extent, a recapitulation of his entire oeuvre but also constitutes his third masterwork...

... Abstract The all-too-common refrain “I can’t breathe,” in response to obscene incidents of police brutality and the murder of Black people in America, has haunted us through this time where breath is not only dangerous and necessary but also, in this nation, hyperpoliticized at a number of flash...

..., as neighbors. The reanimation of this archive reveals the often counterintuitive characteristic of our imagined networks: they are about removal, not addition. It also opens up new imagined possibilities for a digital future beyond the hatred of the different and online echo chambers. This research...

..., for the event always exceeds thinking while also each time happening to it. fraffo1@lsu.edu Copyright © 2022 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2022 being event surprise unrest wonder I will attempt in these few pages to approach Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking of the event, focusing on the motif...

..., is it a matter of participating in some truth of universal validity. Like the fi rst Kantian perspective, the second, the perspective of what has been called truth aesthetics, also abandons all concrete subjectivity. So, for Adorno, the ideal artist is one who emphasizes a moment in the work that allows...

... responses varies at times, drifting between the abstractions of theory and the ground of our lived experiences and intimacies. In the spirit of visibility, we have also included the emails that we exchanged between the responses written in our Google doc, opening up another space between . We have gone...

... and electricity—and the latter, that of the legal advisers to the military, gives advice on what could be targeted and who could be killed. In this sense the book was an attempt to combine two regis- ters: spatiality and calculation. I also noticed that the term “lesser evil” kept on creeping...

... that he would like to have some ideas and perhaps even behold them; later he will say that this rift, this gap between idea and ex- perience, marked a clear boundary between him and Schiller, and also between him and the majority of other writers, scientists, and philosophers. Forget ideology...

..., of how metaphysics can go beyond experience — and also appear- ance — to what lies concealed in or behind it (WWII, §17:237 [1832 Accordingly, experience can be divided into appearance and the thing in itself, which is its core. This core, as Schopenhauer acknowledges...

... is also affi liated with the rhetoric department and interdisciplinary graduate programs in criti- cal theory and in women, gender, and sexuality. Her books include Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010), Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity (2006), Edgework (2005...

... overlap- ping grids of intelligibility in which I’ve been formed, through which I have been framed, but also through which and in relation to which I inevitably make sense of the world, my specifi c type of accumulation of knowledge, my sense of critique, the way theory 148 qui parle spring...

... well mean that even though he escaped that time, the song is always also awaiting him. Or, even worse, that each time he sees water, the memory of the silence , a recollection of the possibility of the song, haunts him. Even if he might have tried to put it behind him, attempted to have forgotten...

... will solely be known under the general denomination of blacks) (my translation). Kleist deals with the subject of the Haitian Revolution most extensively in his novella Betrothal in San Domingo . Heinrich Detering, who has also drawn together Penthesilea and Betrothal in San Domingo , argues that Kleist...

... Sianne Ngai’s phrase) as sources not of self-knowledge but of social critique. Affect theory can be a sociology of accidental en- counters. It can be a psychoanalysis without end, both in leaving no stone unturned and in not caring to achieve a stable outcome. Affect theory can also refuse...

...-quote uncertainty, that it might be impossible to ever know innocence without the delusion of its unveiling. There is no escape from this, for these comments also establish that there is no way to talk about blackness that is neutral or innocent, or not already laden with certain kinds of concepts...