...Michael Lucey This article uses the writings of Erving Goffman, M. M. Bakhtin, and Edward Sapir to pose some questions about what is happening when spoken language is produced. In particular, it looks at certain complexities of the partial roles of “animator,” “author,” and “principal,” into which...

...Marquis Bey Abstract This essay attempts to imagine what nonbinary gender might be through an autotheoretical and imaginative email exchange between the author, as “X,” and the author’s gender as nonbinary. Indeed, theorized conversationally throughout are the difficulties and potentialities...

...Jessica Ruffin; Simone Stirner Abstract In this experimental essay authors and friends Jessica Ruffin and Simone Stirner explore the question of friendship through a dialogic exchange, engaging with friendship as a theoretical concept alongside their own personal histories and relationships. Emails...

...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...

... than metaphorize, the theoretical stakes of current immune theory. As a counterargument to dominant theorizations of immunity that pathologize or metaphorize the autoimmune bodily experience, the article forwards a more spacious, material, and affirmative theorization of the body. As the author...

....” 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...

... Contributors paola bacchetta is associate professor of gender and women’s stud- ies at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologists (New Delhi: Women Unlim- ited, 2003), and co-editor of Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives...

... Reform and Radical Politics in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Britain." MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN is a philosopher and professor in the Departments of French and Comparative Literature at the Uni- versity of Washington. He is the author of several books, includ- ing the following: The Freudian...

... to undergo the humiliation of having those expectations disappointed, even mocked, by the author. Nickolas Pappas speaks of “the Nietzsche disappointment” that the reader experiences over the course of his texts.8 There is a rhythm to his work wherein he has moments of high...

... of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity; and Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. alan bass is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, and on the graduate philosophy faculty of the New School for Social Research. He is the author...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS MARK ANTLIFF, Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University, is author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (Princeton University Press, 1993); co-editor, with Matthew Affron, of Fascist Visions: Art...

... (Paris) and obtained his PhD in philosophy at the Sorbonne. His research bears on algebraic logic, the history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy. He is the author of Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour, a French translation and presentation of George Boole’s Laws...

... the combination of musical sounds is reproduced to the ear it is the orig- inal tune as conceived by the author which is heard. These musical tones are not a copy which appeals to the eye. In no sense can musical sounds which reach us through...

... of childhood, age, evo- lution, and pedagogy and the written and visual media that historically shape them. daniel heller-roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Com- parative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton Uni- versity. He is the author of The Enemy of All: Piracy...

... in their similarities and differences, or were to con- sider how to attack similar goals from their different positions, The Monstrosity of Christ would be a dialogue. Žižek can plausibly claim that it is not a dialogue because, although its authors have substantive differences, their primary...

...Suzanne Herrera Li Puma Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 A Nice, Clean Space for a Panic Attack Notes for Cara Benedetto suzanne herrera li puma I feel like people are afraid to talk about language. Cara Benedetto, conversation with the author, July 29, 2011. Cara...

... Contributors karen barad is professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the En- tanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) and numerous articles...

... liberatory potentials. What is more, the authors in this special issue demonstrate a shared commitment to transgression as method as they question dominant modes of historiography, hierarchies of memory, and forms of power (ontological, structural, and narrative). Cutting across temporal and spatial terrains...

... of the media and nineteenth-century Latin American litera- ture. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas 280 qui parle spring/summer 2012 vol.20, no.2 at El Paso. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Juegos de playa (2008), and was awarded...