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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 77–107.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Thomas Biebricher Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism thomas biebricher Neoliberalism and Sovereignty: An Odd Couple? Neoliberalism is notorious not only because of the various effects attributed to its continued “ecological...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 June 2022
... with the psychosomatics of Black life. This article begins by examining the exceptional narrative of Barney Hill, America’s first and thus far only popular Black abductee. Then it brings into focus UFOlogy’s aporetic negation of racial subjectivity and suggests that the UFO abduction phenomenon is, a posteriori...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the transmission of mind through the channels of linguistic form, meter, and rhyme. Neither the ghost nor the poem exists except in or as its mediations, yet through these mediations, both the ghost and the poem become present and are communicated into the world. While contemporary media theory has identified...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 June 2010
... is an “exemplary exception”? This would not be an excep- tion that proves the rule—that merely refers us back to the rule’s existence—nor would it be an exception that disproves the rule—in the manner, let’s say, that the incest prohibition deconstructs a bi- nary opposition between nature and culture...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 105–137.
Published: 01 December 2005
... to the protection of the sovereign. A recent UN report cataloged 175 million non-citizens around the world, all of whom live beside citizens who are distin- guished from them: "In principle, non-citizens enjoy many of the same rights as citizens, with exceptions limited...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 197–225.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of man's natural life in the mechanisms and calculations of power." Central to Agamben's project — in political theory (Homo Sacer, State of Exception), ethics (Remnants of Auschwitz), and ontology (The Open) — is Aristotle's distinction between zoe, natural or "bare biological life...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 35–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and control (i.e., as a means of repression Jeffrey A. Sluka, “Introduc- tion: State Terror and Anthropology,” ds, 2. 19. For the distinction between the exception, meaning a situation that is considered new or rare, and exceptionalism, implying those practices...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
... declared that Catholics could spill the blood of Muslims without pollution of blood or damnable sin, thus effectively naming Muslims as the homines sacri of medieval Western Christendom. In 1135 Jews were juridically relegated “slaves” ( servi ) of the English king. This exceptional status...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 213–238.
Published: 01 June 2014
...? In literature or in art history, style usually exercises a personological, identifying, and signifying function, sorting exceptional works from unimpressive or minor ones. Style is the hallmark of a habit that refers to an average level of language use or of art production, and personifi es the genius...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of connection between male and female. This operation was reserved for only one exceptional figure, the dictator himself; nobody else could aspire to such an integration. It is to be noted that this integra- tion of male and female took place not in the sense that we concep...
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Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 June 2006
... an exception to this order and declaring a state of emergency, as Carl Schmitt said," and if the state of excep- tion proclaimed by a sovereign is a moment at which life is aban- doned and forsaken by the law and exposed to violence that the law does not punish, as Giorgio...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 3–34.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... In adjectival form, political sover- eignty has been attributed fi nality, decisiveness, unity, absoluteness, permanence, nontransferability, and exceptionality, to name but a few of its modifi ers.3 It is thus a question of who exercises politi- cal power over whom and over what— for example...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 159–161.
Published: 01 December 2011
... at all except its own. And one can imagine what this is like, but not for a mugaworter. Unless, of course, the mugaworter is spotted. 160 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 Goog The speckled egg rolls ’cross the fl oor and a nest...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 179–202.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., incites further legal interventions to overcome the exception, which in turn draws more legal intervention—a looping effect that strives to produce a resolved end to time itself. The solution in this looping is increased encroachment and intervention by the sovereign state in this world, rather than...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 June 2024
... with the production of the dreamworlds of abundance and improvement. American exceptionalism produced a fractured geography of exceptions—people and places left out of the possibility of achieving the promise made and held on to all around them. As late capitalism and late industrialism have become familiar terms...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 235–247.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of legal exception in which the rule of law had failed to expel violence. Colonial rule of law legalized and regulated sov- ereignty’s enduring violence by organizing violence spatially. The privatization of large estates released peasants from the khedival 240 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 267–268.
Published: 01 June 2018
... . Never Alone except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Derrida Jacques . Artaud the Moma , translated by Kamuf Peggy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . Didi-Huberman Georges . Bark , translated by Martin...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the deeper ones.”2 How do you go about realizing that you are already dead? It seems hard to avoid doing this except through a sublime turn that to some extent wards off the very truth being stated. Brassier’s line about being already dead echoes a dramatic sentence from...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 125–155.
Published: 01 June 2014
... with the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the so- called experts were massively perplexed. The economic sciences— with only a few exceptions— did not see the meltdown coming; they could not make heads or tails of the collapse. As a surrogate for all market liberals, Alan Greenspan, longtime head...
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2015
... “All signifi cant concepts of the modern theory of the state,” Carl Schmitt argues, “are secularized theological concepts.”15 The miracle in theology, he argues, is analogous to the exception in jurisprudence: just as the miracle suspends the laws of nature, the exception sus- pends the laws...