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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Jack W. Chen Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as it does the fi gure of the
walking dead (“dl,” 182).4
Up with Dead People
This project draws heavily on LaBruce’s 2008 gay zombie fi lm,
Otto; or, Up with Dead People. LaBruce gained subcultural and
academic attention5 in the 1990s and early 2000s with fi lms like...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Christopher Peterson Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Derrida’s Ouija Board
Christopher Peterson
In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, the aptly named Cole
Sear (Haley Joel Osment) discloses to his therapist the now-infa-
mous words: “I see dead people.” Only at the end...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... alone sees that greenish
annihilated body, and he alone sees the shadow in the half-open
mouth and over the dead man’s eyes. (RS, 17)
Sebald places Descartes in the operating theater and hypothesizes
that the anatomical atlas is of the kind that Descartes “envisaged”
for the sake...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 157–181.
Published: 01 June 2014
... is capable of
assuming. On Thoreau’s understanding, then, there are either liv-
ing things— objects having meaning through their vital relations—
or dead things, passive objects excluded from the circulation of life,
Arsić: Thoreau on Objects 165...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
....
Trauma, on this account, is as much about the living as it is
about the dead. Indeed, it is about thinking the living and the dead
at once, thinking within that mute space of intersection that we
call both disaster and survival. He survives. She survives. They sur-
vive. We...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and got her in the house. When I went back out, I saw eyes looking at me like stars. I took a photo. It was a possum. But as soon as I saw it, it flopped on its side, teeth bared, eyes staring fixedly into the dark. I thought for a moment that it had died. But it was just playing dead, “playing possum...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
...], the subject of philoso-
phy must also recognize that he or she is already dead, and that
philosophy is neither a medium of affi rmation nor a source of
justifi cation, but rather the organon of extinction.1
This scene of “adequation without correspondence” of thought
and (non...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 June 2010
... that are discarded but functional are fi gures of
a stubborn non-death; they are muter than ghosts, those who do
not know that they are dead, or vampires, who derive strength
and powers from being dead. Obsolete machines are still alive in
a sense, but are cold and dusty because left unused. This is why...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
... . Bedos-Rezak Brigitte Miriam . “ Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept .” American Historical Review 105 , no. 5 ( 2008 ): 1489 – 1533 . Biddick Kathleen . “ Dead Neighbor Archives: Jews, Muslims, and the Enemy’s Two Bodies .” In Political Theology and Early Modernity , edited...
FIGURES
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 June 2012
...
nation.1 This symbolic role Whitman partially assigns to literary
precedents that the poet both appropriates and revises; the other
part he assigns to the fi gure of the dead Lincoln summoned to au-
thorize poetic speech by guaranteeing that it tallies the occasion
which it is called forth...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., surveying the ruins, recalls a “whole spread out city without a roof.” 4 Ageless remains of a seemingly dead city—and yet, in apparent alliance with the American-led plan for the pastoralization of Germany, nature blooms and grows, providing the onlooker opportunity for measuring a wasted city against...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184.
Published: 01 December 2015
... argue that the photos document the
violence of the carceral state by pointing to a utopic time and place
beyond the grasp of the prison— a place toward what I’m calling
“the prisoner’s dream” draws us.
Captured Vision, Queer Dreams, and the Time of the Dead
Photo...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 491–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
... plane of existence. It is instructive to think of black elegies, particularly black women’s elegies for other black women , as not just honorific or formal, but haptic, textual, and visual. For they must suture the space between the living and the dead, the present and a possible foreseeable black...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 97–110.
Published: 01 June 2009
... desire and the will are dead in me, slain
by thought. . . .
Yes indeed, I wish to live in excess, said the stranger, picking up
the magic skin.
Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin
98 qui parle fall/winter 2009 vol.18, no.1
“It was the counterfeit coin,” he...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
... that the signature has been forged? Is it that kind of a copy, imitation, or lie? As Derrida has argued, the other is the one who is left to do something with my remains. 10 Those remains include not only my dead body, the corpse I leave behind, but also any number of other relics, vestiges, and traces...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... . . . as the trace of what passes into history. . .. At once dead
and alive, it opens the possibility of our being in time. . . . [The
event of photography] tells us that the truth of history is to this day
nothing but photography. Nevertheless, the photograph — as what
is never itself and therefore always...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 233–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... in 1990 was set in motion by murderous and misogynist violence, with the killing of the young Laura Palmer at the hands of her father, the latter possessed by a demon known as Bob: the very opening of the show, season 1, episode 1, scene 1, is the discovery of Laura’s dead body, and everything...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
... dream of “Father, can’t you see I’m burning?” The con-
tingent external encounter of the real (the candle collapses and in-
flames the cloth covering the dead child, and the smell of the smoke
disturbs the father on a night watch) triggers the true Real, the
unbearable fantasy...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... whose actions, he said, made us perceive the historical process of capitalism. On the other side he placed the passive succession of “pictures” in Émile Zola’s novels, which presented the effects of this process only as dead things, one put beside another. How he constructed and illustrated the contrast...
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