... 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...

...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 even, whenever I read, a he that is me but...

... 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. Forget ideology...

... 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 to...

... 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...

... 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 the...

... 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 “simply”? Wouldn’t we...

...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...

... 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 eagerness to please, the...

.... We may even say that some animals, especially domesticated animals, are extremely susceptible to signs. A dog will react to the slightest changes in the behavior of his master; he will even distinguish the expres- sions of a human face or the modulations of a...

... 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...

... faces the predicament of being listened to not as an agent of what s/he does as a practitioner of music but as a member of a society who listens — or doesn't. Listening certainly does not involve some natural talent. One might not say this about composing or playing an instrument or even...

... 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...

... 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...

... upon the mal-being of all men and women, or even of all sentient beings. "Moral values" would be nothing but discursive devices employed by teachers, parents, or politicians in attempts to regulate behavior, and their value would be evaluated in the same vein. Indifference to the suffering of...