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...Antony Anghie Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Whose Utopia? Human Rights, Development, and the Third World antony anghie In this provocative and stimulating book, Samuel Moyn boldly states that his intention is to provide a “true history of human rights” in order to “confront...

...Jon Soske Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 THE DISSIMULATION OF RACE: "AFRO-PESSIMISM" AND THE PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT Jon Soske In the early 1980s, an intellectual sea change occurred in the eco- nomic theories describing the former colonial world. Denounced by opponents...

... focal point is Danish immigration policies as they evolved from the late 1960s until today. This development culminates in the emergence of the “restrictionist policy paradigm,” which associates immigrants with risks like economic burdens, high unemployment levels, crimes, undemocratic attitudes...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Abstract This essay offers a meditation on how the idea of being human as praxis, as developed by Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, applies to a melting planet. What is the intersubjectivity demanded by (and causing) the deadly heating of the ocean, and how is it informed...

...William S. Allen Abstract Blanchot’s readings of Lautréamont are among the most important writings on this challenging author, and they are also crucial for the development of his own thinking, but they have never been discussed in depth. This essay surveys the whole range of Blanchot’s writings...

... of the Anthropocene, certain fundamental relations (between subject and object, between nature and history, between past, present, and future) must be rethought to account for both the eclipse of the human as well as nature’s ultimate survival. This essay seeks to develop a philosophical form that would approximate...

.... The essay begins by tracing Deleuze’s three periods, especially the development of his thought during the last period, and the process of writing his final book. Then it explores the inextricable connection between the method of creation that results from What Is Philosophy? and its stylistic devices...

...Bruno Penteado Abstract Recent developments in literary studies that can be grouped under the umbrella term postcritique purport to restore, in our disciplinary practices, attention to affect, pleasure, and attachment, which postcritics believe the critical tradition has silenced and neglected...

... supplements existing immune theory with their own emergent and embodied theory, they develop an autoimmune methodology based on their experience of living with an autoimmune disease. Part personal narrative, part speculative autoimmune theory, the article ultimately calls for a practice of self-care aimed...

...’ subjection to large-scale organizations and divisions of labor is at the heart of artificial intelligence. As such, questions of procedures are key to understanding the power assumed by institutions wielding artificial intelligence. Most media-historical accounts of the development of contemporary artificial...

... of displacement and then because they are forced to reflect on the condition of being displaced, in effect, staging their alienation in the act of commenting on it. This dialectic of permanence and impermanence alone hints at a more developed relationship between home and exile than is usually allowed...

... strike. At the same time, the film develops an extended representation of the labor of the prison workers who beat, humiliate, care for, and counsel the prisoners throughout the protests. By combining and reworking the genres of labor film, prison film, and Irish Troubles film, Hunger imagines the prison...

... work by the artist duo Claire Fontaine—who deploy Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of market exchangism in their work—in relation to twentieth-century intellectual debates around representation, abstraction, and social synthesis, the essay develops a model of totality in a descriptive rather than...

... depicts the Jews with such crowns while they hold Jesus in their hands, Mantegna invents a cunning way to invert the accusers and the accused and embeds a hitherto unexplored, anti-Jewish statement. The article traces the development of the visual tradition of the ostracization of Jews in the late...

... be developed in the frame of cybernetic recursivity. It enables one to go farther in demonstrating the differences between the Marxist application of systems, which includes dialectical procedures and genesis, and cybernetic systematics, in which these procedures are redundant. Lev Vygotsky, Evald Ilyenkov...

... the centrality of mass dispossession to the emergence of critical theory and anticapitalist struggle. Two recently published books have also brought renewed theoretical attention to dispossession, each in large part by reexamining the early development of Marxist critical theory and each with a sense...

... most infamously, Giorgio Agamben linked the development of human rights to the Holocaust and ar- gued that they corroborated a biopolitical regime of domination in which— following Foucault’s analysis— life itself became the sub- ject of state-based mechanism of juridical power.14...

.... Drawing on her previous work in the history of physics, she proposes that scientists develop an ecology of practices. Stengers suggests land- scapes are constituted through contingent relations between human and nonhuman elements and the practices that make them known...

... broadly available the particular arguments that developed his influential concept of “tradition.” In the exchange that follows here, he describes what drew him to reprise the concept in his 2015 article “Thinking about Tradition, Religion, and Politics in Egypt Today.” The present interview...

... embryological development alone, it quickly found broader application in extra-embryological theories of race and class. As Gould explains in Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), nu- merous anthropologists, developmental psychologists, education theorists, and psychoanalysts took up the biogenetic law to claim...