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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 121–155.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Dora Zhang Abstract This essay argues that we do not yet fully recognize and attend to the importance of atmospheres as social and political phenomena of everyday life, and draws on a range of approaches to examine these ordinary and ubiquitous sites of affective charge. First charting how creating...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in a Black tradition of breathing, born of centuries of fugitivity and bearing the scars of a people trying to live in hostile atmospheres. Her “for the leaves to drop” extends “leaves” for a full seven seconds, voice a decrescendo like the wind wailing before a storm or the scream of a siren. Her guttural...
FIGURES
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., these are “new” media relations only for some. Marx wrote of the “mephitic” atmospheres of cotton mills, Carolyn Steedman of anthrax spores in parchment sparking meningococcal “archive fevers.” 3 Without (un)willing flesh, there are no media. There is a temporality to breath’s vulnerability. Over time...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 309–325.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and uncontrollable,” the contemporary climate cri-
sis radicalizes this sense of uncertainty.2 Thus, the anthropogenic
derangement of planetary geochemistry only radicalizes the origi-
nary uncertainty that climate, weather, and atmosphere has always
brought to bear on human affairs...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 91–93.
Published: 01 December 2012
... as
frequently, a piece will gently pull us, without warning, to the
smallest interstices of quotidian violence. Whether she explicitly
names or only gestures toward those traces of horror in contem-
porary life, Benedetto’s work conjures the atmosphere of a crime
scene but refuses...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Book .” In Black, White, and In Color , 203 – 29 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Stanley Eric A. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Walters Wendy W. “ ‘One of Dese...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 71–89.
Published: 01 December 2012
... they are, that’s my point.) She seems to have
forgotten that she was a commodity in an intimate public, a maî-
tre d’ for that public, an orchestrator of an atmosphere, and not
Berlant and Greenwald: Conversation with Lauren Berlant 79
really a revolutionary adviser—as bin Laden...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
....
A second important feature common to banlieue and ghetto
is the bleak and oppressive atmosphere that suffuses them and the
potent stigma associated with living in a bounded urban area pub-
licly regarded as a place of relegation, and widely equated with
social failure, destitution, and crime...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that char-
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acterized the sit-ins gave photographers suffi cient time to make de-
liberate compositional choices. In these interior scenes, moreover,
affect was diffused throughout the atmosphere rather than con-
centrated in a single...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 December 2024
... into a magnetic force that promises to carry us above gravity. You ask us to levitate. To read you is to feel light. It is to give up the weight of the flesh and to disintegrate into the atomic makeup of the atmosphere. This is no easy task. It requires a leap, and not all who have jumped could ride the crests...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 387–398.
Published: 01 December 2021
... force to both directly intervene in, and less directly, interfere with the planet’s biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere” ( CC , 16). Readers seeking an environmental history that might actually argue such a claim, rather than state it as self-evident, should look to the works listed above...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and
spiritual atmosphere which makes the flowering of that
art, even when restricted to marginal and private forms,
unthinkable even more than materially impossible.'
Along the same lines, the influential postwar critic Clement Greenberg
asserted that "the main trouble with avant-garde art...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 June 2017
... today. Yet even now, I am perplexed by the quiet thoughtfulness they so atmospherically depict. I see three boys staged with dignity and interiority. I see pensive, mature, almost regal gazes downcast or focused on the camera. Yet viewed in their historical context of 1920s Germany, I also see...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 573–586.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the universal referent on governmentality and power” ( fi , 153). In his fifth chapter Ghamari-Tabrizi reconstructs the atmosphere of hostility and sarcasm (from Foucault’s critics, namely, self-identified secularists and French intellectuals) that led Foucault to abandon any explicit engagement...
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 June 2004
.... For greater eluci-
dation of Leavis's thought, we can turn to a remark from The Great
Tradition (1948): "Borrowing a phrase from Mr. Eliot's critical writ-
ings, one might say that [Shakespeare's Sonnets] achieve their
overpowering evocation of atmosphere by means of 'objective cor-
132 TODD...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 December 2011
... owers in the “unfrequented
lanes” passage in Charlotte Smith’s 1807 “Beachy Head.”34 The
more objects tumble forth, the more they fall under the spell of an
atmosphere, a melancholic mood in which things churn undigest-
ed. A strange pall hangs over these bizarre bazaars...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 251–266.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and the grotesque, ordered rationalism and elemental irrationality, civilization and tyrannical power, utopian plans and apocalyptic doom. 6 (The most familiar work in this tradition for Anglophone readers is probably Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment , a novel intimately linked to the setting and atmosphere...
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Bersani’s work as “a theory of extinctions” relevant
to other species, see Neel Ahuja, “Intimate Atmospheres: Queer Theory
in a Time of Extinctions,” glq 21.2– 3 (2015): 365– 85; 365– 66. See also the
introduction to the same special issue of glq by Mel Chen and Dana...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 December 2021
... much of anything but the atmospheric breath surrounding the abode? Because masculinity is not simply in your body. Nothing, really, is inherent to your body, it’s all an external affixation, an imposition, and a nonconsensual one at that. Even when you say “Here, take it back,” they don’t let you...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2011
....
In this atmosphere, the mayor, backed by hedge-fund managers, is
threatening to lay off thousands of teachers, gunning to eliminate
tenure, and converting more public schools into charter schools.
Meanwhile, the governor has declared war on public unions while
promoting tax cuts for the rich. He is backed...
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