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“ . . . Wrestling with (my God!) My God”: Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
...John Brenkman Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “ . . . wrestling with (my God!) my God”
Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief
john brenkman
Belief’s Modernity
In the tradition of Pascal, inherited religious belief is wracked by
doubt and the believer is brought face to face...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with questions of belief. But is the belief that “everything is a network” something that emerges in response to the emergence of ubiquitous digital connectivity? Or, rather, does the figure of the network have a deeper history that the digital simply brings into sharper relief? What is the relation between...
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What Is (Machine) Philosophy?
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 185–207.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the ascendant cybernetic metaphysics. For Parisi, a necessary move herein is to negotiate the reality of the algorithm’s syntactic operations, their performativity, a move that for her implies a certain form of belief. In tracking this form of belief across disciplines, this interview broaches questions...
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Movement in Repose: Notes on Form of Life
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Aaron Frederick Eldridge Abstract How does tradition, a transmission of body and language, disclose a form of life? This article takes as its point of departure Talal Asad’s methodological pivot away from the modern concept of “belief” to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of “form of life...
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A Liar’s Epistemology: Herbert Simon’s Performative Artificial Intelligence
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
... criticized Simon for the performative nature of his artificially intelligent systems, mainly for his positivism, but he defended his positivism based on his belief that symbolic computation could stand in for any reality and in fact shape that reality. Simon was not looking to actually re-create human...
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Heretical Hebrew: On Pseudoscript and Christian Humanist “Truth” in Andrea Mantegna’s Anti-Jewish Ecce Homo
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 263–323.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... This attribute situates Mantegna’s painting within the humanist studies of Hebrew, the Veritas Hebraica, which was a means to access antique sources and to delegitimize Jewish belief. The article further draws a parallel to the burning of heretics, who wore similar crowns when they were condemned. Since Mantegna...
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From Doubt to Dogma: Ontology and Santayana's Skeptical Analysis of Knowledge
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 147–168.
Published: 01 June 2004
... belief in
the existence of matter, the reality of consciousness, and the
implied being of truth. One wants to know: is Santayana a skeptic
or not? If the critic turns to Santayana's copious writings for answers
there is certainly the possibility for more confusion. In various
places...
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World-Making and Grammatical Impasse
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 179–206.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Amelioration
Deleuze elaborates this unthought-intolerable immanence in terms
of belief. Yet in doing so he ameliorates, evades, and ultimately de-
nies groundlessness. This denial stems, specifi cally, from an invest-
ment in possibility— not, that is, from the use of belief as such. In
fact...
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Crossing the Line: Blasphemy, Time, and Anonymity
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
...,
the international attention, and the clear belief on the part of the
authorities that, accusations of blasphemy notwithstanding, the
real stakes were political. As one of the prosecution lawyers put it:
“Lurching behind [Pussy Riot] are the real enemies of our state and
of the Orthodox Christianity; those...
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Thinking about Method: A Conversation with Talal Asad
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 195–218.
Published: 01 June 2017
... to the question “What is the object of investigation for the anthropology of Islam?” The varied answers he found available were based on nominalist or essentialist principles, each of which he found inadequate for “organizing the considerable diversity of the beliefs and practices of Muslims.” 1 Whatever...
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The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2009
... as
to what is Islam will be admitted by the anthropologist only where
it applies to the informant’s own beliefs and practices, because it is
generally impossible to define beliefs and practices in terms of an
isolated subject. A Muslim’s beliefs about the beliefs and practices
of others are his own...
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Frederick Douglass' Differing Opinions on the Pro-Slavery Character of the American Union
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Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 145–169.
Published: 01 June 2006
... to
infuse its own-accursed spirit into all around it, that the
people among whom it exists have not the moral power
to abolish it. ("RTC," 78)
Douglass' appeal to the moral authority of England for aid fell in line
with the Garrisonian belief that inspiring...
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The Skepticism and Animal Faith of Wallace Stevens
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 51–104.
Published: 01 December 2005
... belief; but when I assert that such a thing
exists I am hypostatizing this datum, placing it in pre-
sumptive relations which are not internal toit, and wor-
shipping it as an idol or thing. Neither its existence nor
mine, nor that of my belief can be given in any datum.6...
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Nontranscendental Transnationalism
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 219–229.
Published: 01 June 2017
... are often described as particularized practices that reflect a racial or national essence rather than a set of beliefs capable of universal appeal. Beliso–De Jesús’s engaging account of the transnational world of Santería practitioners, media, and theological debates provides two important interventions...
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The X of Representation: Rereading Stuart Hall
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
... in the word innocence , which suggests that any theory of blackness must begin by innocenting itself of any belief that it could ever essentially or finally know what blackness is. Are we thus to assume that the only possible way black theory can conceive of blackness is by innocenting itself in the grasp...
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Is Marx (Capital) Secular?
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., starting with a belief in their
putative opposition, we misapprehend how they were otherwise
conceived even in modernity and thus miss an opportunity for in-
sight into contemporary predicaments of secularism, religion, and
globalization.
The good news is that in some corners of Western...
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Revolution from between: Latour's Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 89–124.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of organizing the historicities of
Europeans and other humans worldwide, as well as those of natural
beings and the myriad technological and scientifi c products of their
interaction.8 Insofar as it implies that human history must take an ir-
reversible linear form, belief in modernity has...
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The Futility of the Humanities
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 95–107.
Published: 01 June 2011
... it with the
aside that I have made it many times. Forgive me if I sound weary.
Bérubé: The Futility of the Humanities 99
But the idea that enrollments in English and the humanities have
declined in recent years appears to be one of those Zombie Beliefs,
something it is physically...
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No Futures (Duras 72/77)
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... occasionally apocalyptic rhetoric, the encounter
her fi lms propose with what Deleuze repeatedly calls in her case the
impossible (c2, 176) is neither a disaster nor the engine of some other
process: it is already an act of care and an affi rmation of belief in the
world...
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Unfamiliar Methods: Blumenberg and Rorty on Metaphor
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 77–103.
Published: 01 June 2000
... elaborates a theoretical account of metaphor whose
implicit performativity becomes the driving force of its representa-
tional effects.3° According to Rorty, "Davidson lets us see metaphors
on the model of unfamiliar events in the natural world — causes of
changing beliefs and desires — rather than...
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