...Amy Fung-yi Lee; Kiran Chandra Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 I opened up this project to Kiran with a rather structured idea about process—a blind drawing game whose rules resembled Exquisite Corpse. When I work on my own, I usually work within boundaries that describe...

...John Paul Ricco Centered on The Andrew Project (2010–13) by artist Shaan Syed, this article is a theoretical meditation on the politics and ethics of the name, drawing, the portrait, anonymity, and the signature, as these bear on a shared sense of loss and its impossible commemoration. I invoke...

...Dora Zhang Abstract This essay argues that we do not yet fully recognize and attend to the importance of atmospheres as social and political phenomena of everyday life, and draws on a range of approaches to examine these ordinary and ubiquitous sites of affective charge. First charting how creating...

...Daniel Katz Abstract This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book . Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra...

... and recount their life narrative. The first of these novels—Charles Gildon’s Golden Spy (1702)—gives voice to a bunch of coins. And the genre becomes self-reflexive when money starts to “coin words,” like the autobiographical protagonist of The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770). Drawing on ancient sources...

... two plays by Heinrich von Kleist—the comedy Amphitryon (1807) and the tragedy Penthesilea (1808)—the article argues that Amphitryon’s servant, Sosias, multiplies by way of stolons and that the Amazons in Penthesilea are grafted creatures with an ongoing desire to form new grafts. The analysis draws...

... on the welfare state as caught up between welfarist universality, industrial-capitalist expansion, and sovereign territoriality. Drawing on Foucault’s work, these different logics of statehood are analyzed as evolving constellations of law, discipline, and security. Danish immigration policy mutates over time so...

... of the oikos in theorizing the demands of the present. Drawing from conflictual interpretations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Politics and reading against the grain of Marxist feminism, this article proposes a general theory of incapacity that identifies the role of capacity in reproducing the problem...

... of desire that blur the lines between agency and passivity. Deploying José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of disidentification, it shows how black and queer subjects disruptively locate themselves in the horror genre by drawing on their racial affinities with the genre. The first section proposes that the most...

... guard stood next to an enormous charcoal wall drawing. He diligently supervised the public, ensuring that they would not come too close and smudge the drawing; charcoal smudg- es easily, and this would ruin the work. The drawing was a larger- than- life nude woman, her height combined with her...

...- kranken—translated into English as Artistry of the Mentally Ill— in which he reproduced and analyzed 187 of the more than five thousand paintings, drawings, and carvings he had collected from various asylums in and around Heidelberg, mostly from patients diagnosed as schizophrenic. While...

... on melancholy and modern allegory, Braun develops a portrait of Sironi's art as fascist precisely because of its brooding, difficult, and con- trary choices in style. In the chapter on allegory, Braun draws upon the work of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man to treat...

... theory at John Hopkins University, follows the partici- pation of nonhumans in Western political thought and practices. Drawing on the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, she puts forth a theory that recognizes the role of nonhuman forces in events...

... is an attractive, muscular man in his thirties—a result (as the viewer is informed via voice-over) of “an unfortunate accident with the fountain of youth.” At a loss for a new feature to distinguish the museum and draw visitors, Burton is struck by an unlikely paper airplane that bears...

...—is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration. Edward W. Said, “Reflections on Exile” You arrive at Drawing in the Diaspora , an exhibit featuring the work of the Chicago-born Palestinian artist Leila Abdelrazaq held at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn...

..., Alexander Nehamas, responds to the question and Laqueur’s text, offering playful insight and new questions for consideration. Friends and artists Amy Fung-yi Lee and Kiran Chandra carry out a visual conversation, again starting with a question: “How do you draw a frog?” And in “‘A Picture of Peace...

... Lyotard’s The Inhuman about the death of the sun that Brassier had quoted and discussed earlier: “Everything’s dead already if this infi nite reserve from which you now draw energy to defer answers, if in short thought as quest, dies out with the sun.”3 Cropping and repeating...

... on a DAAD fellowship, I came to know the paintings and REVIEW ESSAY 125 drawings of Menzel on display at the Nationalgalerie and Kupfers- tichkabinett. In speaking to Germans who grew up in East Berlin in the 1960s and '70s, I...

... an overt pictorial practice, com- posed mostly of spectacular drawings rendered by the zoologist’s own hand (fi g. 1). Haeckel relished thinking evolution visually, and his pictures envisaged countless homologies among vast varieties of creaturely forms. Bergson’s ontological...

... draws attention to Santería’s affective embodiments of the divine, complicating studies of transnational religion that often start from an implicitly Christian conceptualization of the transcendental experience. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted primarily in Cuba and the United States, Electric...