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... “giving up” as unimaginable for her; however, Anyanwu’s immortal durability puts her in touch with the very ordinariness of it. Finally, this essay asks whether we can care for the dead, those who were too tired of living, without insisting on their renewal of their labor for the alive and their causes...

...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...

... 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...

...Christopher Peterson 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 of the film does Malcolm Crowe (Bruce...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

..., 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...

... “the dead body” to “the demonstrator,” “the supine narrator,” “the recumbent meditator,” and “the dreamer”—Dowling contests dominant figurations of uprightness. The book’s central ideas, figure and ground, are at once embodied and material, formal and representational. A figure may be defined through...

...], 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...

... 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...

... typology posits the theological supersession of the Christian church over Israel. The Hebrew Bible and the Jew become a “type,” fulfilled by the “figure” of the Christian Gospel and Christ. Jews thus become the “dead letter”—zombies that can only be vivified by their fulfillment in Jesus Christ...

... 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...

... of Sodom and Gomorrah, its wrecked cities are said to lie at the bottom of the Dead Sea and presage a fate whose return is eternal—a millennium or so later, its wrath would return for the thousands turned to ash beneath Vesuvius, buried eighty feet deep, and forgotten for fifteen hundred years. The names...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... A photograph therefore speaks . . . 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...

... closes. At the end of the five generations that Haraway narrates, each generation bringing about a more ecologically robust (and less populous) world, the fifth Camille becomes a “Speaker for the Dead,” communing with the “lost lifeways” that have departed from the earth and letting no one forget...