... Goffman proposed breaking down the role of speaker. It suggests that implicit in Goffman’s essay “Footing” is the possibility that even the analytic roles of animator, author, and principal will not be fine-grained enough to capture what happens through language use. This possibility is then pursued...

...Katrin Pahl Abstract At the intersection of two fields of inquiry that are highly imaginative and seek real change—the study of human-plant relations and the even less charted study of queer procreation—this article explores queer ways of procreating that humans may learn from plants. In particular...

...Jeremy Fernando Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 Il lit sur mon lit a phrase that came to me suddenly, in the middle of nowhere —as I was reading.   That Perhaps even   I am always in bed when reading For      regardless of where I am; or...

..., Goethe says that he would like to have some ideas and perhaps even behold them; later he will say that this rift, this gap between idea and ex- perience, marked a clear boundary between him and Schiller, and also between him and the majority of other writers, scientists, and philosophers...

... messiah both dis- appoints us and draws out of us our own expectations for salva- tion.2 He dangles the promise of a future (“a seer . . . a future him- self”) even as he explicitly deprives us of any hope. The purpose of such cruelty, of disappointment and misrepresentation, is...

... drive, common to all of us, even if it is fi gured by the queer. Yet however much Professor Eri- bon may want to distance himself from Edelman (or vice versa), the two are alike in one way: Edelman’s concept of the future-spurning sinthomosexual comes from Lacan’s inquiry into...

... even the American system of higher education, in which foreign students attending colleges and universities across the country are now forced to pay a "special fee" that is used by the government to fund the surveillance of these students through a database and tracking...

... it a nearly impregnable fortress impossible to take (even when its particular conceptual terms are violated). However, it is a fortress that might simply be deserted. (tt, 22– 23) But how could we ever really leave behind such a fortress, and under what conditions could we desert it...

...Rei Terada Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 Repletion Masao Adachi’s Totality rei terada Masao Adachi notes, apropos of the fi lm theory he and others devel- oped in the late 1960s: “All the landscapes which one faces in one’s daily life, even those such as the beautiful sites...

...Laurent Dubreuil Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises laurent dubreuil These pages are an excerpt from a book that does not exist, not even as a project. They come from a virtual and improbable dictionary à la William Burroughs: each term would be a...

... a lengthy quote: 194 qui parle spring/summer 2010 vol.18, no.2 we must carefully distinguish between signs and symbols. That we fi nd rather complex systems of signs and signals in animal behavior seems to be an ascertained fact. We may even say that...

... of being one. And yet, the possibility of slippage from having to being, to say nothing of an even more traumatic déclassement like that suffered by the young Dickens, or by his fi ctional surrogate David, produces in Dickens’s work the aggressive “humility,” the manic...

... reason of the West and modes of thought internally and externally foreign to it, including those of a religious, or intellectual and philosophical, or linguistic, or ver- nacular, or even mad and irrational nature—will doubtlessly keep on emitting one of the most piercing...

... thoughts Jullien: Thinking between China and Greece 183 from what I shall call their mutual in-difference—at the start they neither speak to nor even regard each other—and to constitute bit by bit the new framings and theoretical retrofi ttings allowing us to pinpoint the...

... manner, and even if only implicitly, the foreignness of religions. Like conversion, which appears here as its very condi- tion, translation is a growth of sorts. It develops and expands lan- guage along the lines of a peculiar kinship that transcends likeness and re-signifi es the very notion of...

... (cosmopolitan right) in the principle of universal hos- pitality.5 According to Kant, a world citizen acts from the plural- istic standpoint of humanity as a collective actor and not as an egoistic individual (APH, 411). Kant regarded state sovereignty as inviolable, even as his idea of world federation...

... discon- tinuity at the level of bodies, and this “ontology,” or distribution of beings, is what renders clear the terms and confi guration of our own. Modernity becomes even more exposed, moreover, when we come up against two other possibilities: continuity, on the one hand, at the level of both...

... instrument or even having an ear for proper pitch, although in all these cases an effective performance depends on serious application and practice. Listening, in any case, is learned. (Or unlearned: whole communi- ties can be rendered unskilled to listening, generation by genera- Qui Pane, Vol...

... of the non- elite classes granted in the two great Reform Acts, of 1832 and 1867 (EHB, 1:8).9 While Burton’s rarely veiled class prejudice cer- tainly has much to do with his discomfort before the march toward universal suffrage, his complaint has a technocratic, even geopo- litical, edge.10...

...- cally, Baudelaire's poetry, on which Benjamin came to base his most original and provocative claims about capital's history, as well as his speculations about the shape of its future, even if these remained fragmentary. We cannot know whether this fragmentari- ness...