...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...

...-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...

...—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...

..., 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...

...,” 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...

..., and procedures designed to formalize knowledge, ethics, value, ontology, and philosophies of life and death. Even though the operations, calculations, and procedures vary—geometry, set theory, calculus, algebra, statistics, and so on—formalization unifies these diverse fields of mathematical inquiry. To put...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... is easily grasped. For Hegel, humanity was not formed simply; rather, in a kind of blinded recklessness, the proudest confronted death. . . . But it was interminable toil, not the vain parades of the masters, that founded this civilized world.” 67 To the extent that he provides the “coherent...

..., 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...

...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...

..., 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...

.... The young man was probably motivated by the most logical of all the eloquent sentences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose dour thought, I believe, is as follows: Yes, I can understand how a man would go for broke at the gambling table, but only when, between himself and death, he sees...

... 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...

... 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 of singular subject...

...—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...

...: 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...

... such as Agamemnon or Eteocles try to take action, their deci- sions and acts recoil against them with fatal results. Their initiative is usurped and reversed by an external force, fate, that provokes their death. Thus it would seem that the human imagination si- multaneously enables and thwarts agency...

..., suffering, war, and death, everything is constructed, fictionalized, con- stituted by and for the media apparatus. Nothing ever really happens. There is nothing but simulacrum and delusion." While taking the deconstruction of artifactu- ality...