...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...

...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...

... "Thinking at the Limit: The Logic of Liberal 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...

... 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 of...

... Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 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...

... alumnus of l’École Normale Superieure (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...

... University. She currently works at the American Civil Liberties Union and examines the ways in which emerging tech- nologies affect our civil liberties. KAREN S. FELDMAN teaches in the Departments of Rhetoric and German at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of...

... Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 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...

... is the author of The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations (2009); The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation (2007); 222 qui parle fall/winter 2010 vol.19, no.1 Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (2005); and Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the...

...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...

...). jennifer doyle is associate professor of English at the University of California at Riverside, where she teaches American literature, gender studies, and visual studies. She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minnesota, 2006). Her second book, Critical Lim- its: Diffi...

... literature, and secularism and religion. His articles on these topics have appeared in many venues, including MLQ, Public Culture, Studies in Romanticism, and ELH. He is co- leader of the “Objects and Environments” seminar at the Center for Cultural Analysis, and he is the author...

... Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS HANS BLUMENBERG was Professor of Philosophy at the Univer- sity of Miinster until his death in 1996. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the history of philosophy and science. Those in English...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ARIELLA AZOULAY teaches visual culture and contemporary phi- losophy at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of Once Upon a Time: Photography after Walter Benjamin (Bar Ilan University Press, 2005) and Death's Showcase (MIT Press, 2001, Winner of...

..., 2010. Kameen, Paul. Re-reading Poets: The Life of the Author. Pittsburgh: Uni- versity of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson, eds. Queer Ecolo- gies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 334 qui parle...

... semiotics 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...

...-Kenney. Translating Slavery. Vol. 2, Ourika and Its Progeny. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010. Kamuf, Peggy. To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh: Ed- inburgh University Press, 2010. Kameen, Paul. Re-reading Poets: The Life of the Author. Pittsburgh: Uni...

... theory and practice of cosmopolitanism. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Hu- man Rights (2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003) and coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and...

... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Contributors branka arsić is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (2010), and a book on Melville titled Passive Consti- tutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (2007). She...