.... This essay identifies some of the advantages and shortcomings of this symptomatological mode of interpretation by returning to a dispute in the German scientific establishment around the turn of the twentieth century concerning the applicability of biological conceptions of organic wholeness in cultural...

...Thomas Waller Abstract This article critically compares two recent approaches to the problem of aesthetic autonomy: Dave Beech’s Art and Value and Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy . By recentering the differences between these critics’ works around Marx’s categories of subsumption, it evaluates...

... work by the artist duo Claire Fontaine—who deploy Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of market exchangism in their work—in relation to twentieth-century intellectual debates around representation, abstraction, and social synthesis, the essay develops a model of totality in a descriptive rather than...

... to the ongoing plunder of empire and to what empire jettisons around the world. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2024 migrant art Filipinx history archives rasquache queer-of-color critique During the summer of 2021 a Los Angeles gallery affiliated...

...Pierre Alferi Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 Witness statement from Udhayasûriyan Kurmagati, age 47 By the time you notice it, it’s already been there a while. A weight added onto each thing. The fatigue of the legs, the irritation around the neck. And the lightest...

... University Press , 2016 . Palermo Charles . Modernism and Authority: Picasso and His Milieu around 1900 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2015 . Park Hyun Ok . The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea . New York : Columbia University...

... installing the artwork Autonomy Cube in galleries and museums around the world in an effort to make such anonymizing efforts possible within the public network of the host institution ( fig. 1 ). Consisting of an acrylic glass cube measuring 1.25 feet on each side, the sculpture contains internet routers...

... release in 1993. This history is alluded to by an opening intertitle that asserts “in 1987 newspapers around the world accused a Canadian fl ight attendant of bringing AIDS to North America. They called him patient zero.” The viewer is thus linguistically introduced to “Patient...

... but of white, heterosexual males. She queers phenomenology to show how the world becomes oriented around heterosexuality and whiteness as invisible viewpoints that determine the near and the far, the strange and familiar, the straight and the queer. The focus in phenomenology on bodily extension, motility...

... time. The “both/and” of this kind of ambivalence around sex may be a dramatic state but might also just be the ordinary messiness of being in relation to other people. This both/and of sex should not be taken as neither/nor, as Berlant states that they aim to find an approach that succeeds...

... most important in- tervention into the debates around queer theory and technology. After so many adventures, McGlotten admits, he hasn’t settled on whether technologically mediated connections facilitate hegemony or subversion, discrimination or acceptance, a digital cruising uto- pia...

... with the production of the dreamworlds of abundance and improvement. American exceptionalism produced a fractured geography of exceptions—people and places left out of the possibility of achieving the promise made and held on to all around them. As late capitalism and late industrialism have become familiar terms...

... imagina- tive captioning that may serve to decompress both space and time.1 Wild Captioning Outside the main entrance of the hotel stood a pole bearing a faded blue sheet of paper. It was impossible to read from where I stood but it looked interesting. Or the sky around it did...

..., but they operated according to a logic that was no longer strictly speaking territorial. For example, since 2005 there were no colonies in Gaza anymore, the wall around Gaza was not really invading on its in- ternationally agreed boundaries— the “death zone” that extends from it into Gaza...

... a portrayal of postcapitalist possibilities within the wreckage of late capitalism to a fantastical tale of revolution arguably stages tensions around what speculative fiction can and should be. Dawson, in Extreme Cities , repeats the often-told line on disaster-centric genre fiction, that whatever futures...

... will soon unravel and wrap themselves around your body, they will swirl in liquid nitrogen and reanimate you.” ...

... impels profound effects on the bodies and spaces around him. “A yes to the question, ‘Do you want to go to this conference?’ enables him to travel from one end of the earth to the other without having done anything more than twitching an eyebrow,” she writes (HI, 31...

... Franz Kafk a’s collec- tion Contemplation, “will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street.”1 Two decades aft er Kafk a— same language, diff erent locale— Walter Benjamin refl ects in Berlin Child- hood around 1900 that nothing has fortifi ed his “own memory so pro...

... on the air of a veritable campaign, conducted by week- ly magazines and daily newspapers in the early 1990s, around the growing menace posed by the "banlieues" and their now-overly familiar procession of deprivation and vice, despondency and despair, for public order and the integrity...