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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Jean-Michel Rabaté Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 The Death of Freud What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence? jean-michel rabaté The Schadchen has assured the suitor that the girl’s father is no longer living. After the engagement, it emerges that the father is still...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 519–532.
Published: 01 December 2017
...—it merely lures you with its beauty, its sadness. All one had to do was to keep oneself from the water: that was precisely the medium of death, what actually led you to the rocks. Or, it could well be that Kafka was correct: the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 297–304.
Published: 01 December 2022
...-appearing. We are always already there at each instant. This is not an innovation—but the stage must be reinvented; we must reinvent it each time, each time making our entrance anew. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural To speak of life, of life in the context of death, is to speak of too little...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., the shocking effect on the victims of bomb explosions in war—owe their traumatic effect to the resonance they find in perverse masochism, in death drive, in unconscious guilt feeling, etc. Today, however, our sociopoliti- cal reality itself imposes multiple versions of external intrusions, traumas...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 June 2012
...,” where the catastrophic event of Lincoln’s death prompts the poetic subject to address a che vuoi? to the symbolic Other as the depository of his truth, that is, as that which is apt to legitimize and guarantee the role that the poet takes on as an elegist speaking in the name of the American...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 353–372.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Marriott, “Perfect Beauty of Black Death.” 22. I am using the term (in)existence as a nod to Badiou’s inexistent , since the inexistent has such a low intensity between identities that this relation is rendered obsolete. It is not clear whether, for Badiou, the inexistent moves us closer...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
... drowning. His heart beats wildly in his hands. It is blinding and who will forgive him in his tiny garden? He makes them out of hair, deer hair, because it’s hollow and floats. Past death, past sight, this is his good idea, what drives the silly days together. Better than...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., and death. These three movements work across what Glissant calls, in his introduction to the “Riveted Blood” poems, a “tortured geography.”7 This tortured geography writes Glissant as much as he writes about it; in conceiving births and roots, one writes as the living without the place of the dead...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184.
Published: 01 December 2015
... documents the dreams, desires, and hopes of people held in a state of suspended death. Indeed, Photo Requests from Solitary asks the simple question, “What would a person in complete isolation want to see?”5 For this particular photo, the re- quester wanted to “have some picture...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., to borrow an expression from Gilles Deleuze—to bring into dynamic relief certain dimensions of the historical now. This is how I hear the contemporary echo of Theodor W. Adorno’s wry provocation—delivered in 1956, on the 125th anniversary of Hegel’s death—according to which, rather than pose the tired...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., on the quarry of these murder’d deer, / To add the death of you.” “My children too?” asks Macduff (4.3.206–13). The audience has seen the “manner” of their death, and scarce- ly needs reminding: “Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain!” says Macduff’s boy to the First Murderer, who...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Copyright © 2024 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2024 Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler suicide desirelessness care I just got very, very tired. Fantasia Barrino She just said she was tired. Tired to death. Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed Despite Anyanwu’s deviation from her plan to die...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Shaka McGlotten; Sarah VanGundy Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Zombie Porn 1.0 or, Some Queer Things Zombie Sex Can Teach Us1 shaka mcglotten and sarah vangundy “Death Is the New Pornography” This essay bites off more than it can chew. Inspired by the work of Canadian fi lmmaker...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., just a little extra death: extinguo— to quench, extinguish, kill, destroy. The ex (from the Greek and ultimately Indo- European eks or ek, “out of”) is an x of excessive withdrawal, the mark of an extra extinguishing, and that tautol- ogy or stutter may offer the best help we can get if we...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 97–110.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., between himself and death, he sees nothing more than his last penny. . . . A man exhausts himself in two instinctively-accomplished actions that dry up the wellsprings of his existence. Two verbs express all the forms that these two causes of death can assume: to WILL ONESELF...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and the dead. The declaration “I see dead people” thus implies Crowe’s death as the condition of its veracity. How could the psy- chologist not see, as it were, the possibility that “I see dead peo- ple” means “because I see you, because I look at you and tell you this, you, therefore, are dead”? Cole’s...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 1–49.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the postulates of the philosophical generation that celebrated the death of man;' postcolonialism and critical ON THE POSTCOLONY: A BRIEF RESPONSE TO CRITICS 3 race studies in particular have contributed to the revival of the cri- tique of Eurocentrism — a sort...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 111–180.
Published: 01 June 2009
...—to a Dussel: The Liberatory Event in Paul of Tarsus 115 political philosophy. Such is the movement of Schmitt—as we can see in the dramatic dialogue before his death with Jacob Taubes— who takes Paul’s Epistles as the inspiration for his political doctrine of the “katégon,” passing from Paul’s...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 December 2024
... that broke with modernity to bring about an Islamic Republic. I gather this from your silence, from our absence from your archives. But today, after our death, me living immortally in afterlife and you, suspended in a state of deanimation in liquid nitrogen, we may broach topics too heavy for the living...
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 December 2007
...: It is a vast grave. Open and welcoming. Thousands sit on its thresholds. Others sleep inside. Some wail, others hallucinate. There are those who are laughing. Yes. Laughing. Their mouths and skulls are full of dirt. "Nothing endures" Wherever I lean, I hear the same echo: death's pulse crawling...