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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Marc Redfield Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Wordsworth’s Dream of Extinction
marc redfield
This short essay turns on the difference between, yet also the dif-
fi culty of separating defi nitively, representations of extinction and
apocalypse. Apocalypse of course means revelation...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 419–420.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2008 . Ekeberg Bjørn . Metaphysical Experiments: Physics and the Invention of the Universe . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2019 . Farrier David . Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 259–274.
Published: 01 December 2011
... directed against
its own biological bases” (EV, 22). The “event” of biology teaches
us that taxonomic orders make little sense without an understand-
ing of what happens between their living elements. The gardener’s
response to the extinction crisis is to seek to preserve...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 35–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... philosophy as a symptom of a
specifi c environmental context, a historical situation under the sign
of a “sixth extinction” that threatens to make humans join the dino-
saurs in the cemetery of extinct species? In this article I will favor
the last hypothesis, which we can call...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... For a man of his
intellect and critical capacity, his musings on the topic reduce to
a disappointing, if unsurprising, garden-variety racism—Africans
are civilizationally defi cient—underpinned by a demographic argu-
ment of extinction—unable to keep up, the “negro race” is likely...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Bersani’s work as “a theory of extinctions” relevant
to other species, see Neel Ahuja, “Intimate Atmospheres: Queer Theory
in a Time of Extinctions,” glq 21.2– 3 (2015): 365– 85; 365– 66. See also the
introduction to the same special issue of glq by Mel Chen and Dana...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 91–96.
Published: 01 June 2009
... [. . .] must not be overestimated” since philosophy will have,
at the present historical juncture, “to become global” and other
to itself—“de-Europeanize”—or else face gradual extinction. The
reason for this, according to Stiegler, is that as long as European-
derived thought continues...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 15–43.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of “daily life.”
Totality and Repleteness
In his major fi lm- theoretical book, The Extinction of Landscape (1971),
critic Masao Matsuda, who participated in making A.K.A., muses on
how tracking Nagayama’s route brought forward an oppressive sense
of genericism for the fi lm crew. Poor...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 117–143.
Published: 01 June 2006
... their life-styles ,provisional if not extinct
through a process of reform.
As I have shown elsewhere, the prescriptive force of this lib-
eral project is not simply rhetorical.39 It enjoys the support of the
U.S. State Department, which recently allocated over $13...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 233–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-” words, not least because of the pronounced Catholic inflection of Haraway’s conceptual idiom, as well as her emphasis on the importance of the dead: for the relational movement of becoming-with also means “becom[ing]-with the dead and extinct” ( sw , 101). 13 The concept of resurrection seems...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 December 2011
... respond
by arguing that human beings should stop breeding these animals
and let their species go extinct. They argue that the dependency of
these species makes them so vulnerable to human exploitation that
to keep these species surviving is irresponsible.
Is there another way? What would...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
... : Pallas Athene , 2006 . Pamuk Orhan . My Name Is Red , translated by Göknar Erdağ . New York : Vintage , 2006 . Shipman Pat . The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2015 . Voltaire...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... realization wants peace but has only ever brought disaster: absolute freedom found the guillotine; absolute identity realized itself in the extermination camps. The dream of natural history, soon realized, will eventuate in the extinction of the species that was its source. ☾ ☾ ☾ In every equation...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 197–225.
Published: 01 December 2005
... at the height of the Cold War, The mere risk of extinction
has a significance that is categorically different from, and immea-
surably greater than, that of any other risk To employ a mathe-
matical analogy, we can say that although the risk of extinction
may be fractional, the stake is, humanly speaking...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 June 2004
...-
render of himself as he is at the moment to something which is
more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice,
a continual extinction of personality" (SE, 17). Against Santayana's
putative affirmation of the bourgeois "established ego," Leavis fur...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
...[es] all withered, obsolete, and perhaps soon to be extinct forms” ( NP , 144). Though we can consider the process on an evolutionary timescale, we can also consider the process of biological normativity originating in the blood vessels of an individual body. What if a norm were a reused injection...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 159–193.
Published: 01 June 2024
... subjectivity communication “When [Michel] Foucault speaks of the ‘death of Man’ at the end of The Order of Things ,” remarks Béatrice Han-Pile, “he is not heralding some kind of mass extinction.” 1 Indeed, Foucault is not predicting the end of the human being, the decline in use of the word man...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 25–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to the
ecological violence of late capitalism, the stories that Katrina and
the BP blowout produce tend to imagine modern infrastructure
failure as tantamount to human species extinction—as if the spe-
cies is unthinkable without these increasingly obsolescent objects.
Feeling Ecological...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 373–389.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that was incompatible with Euro-American civilization and had to be exterminated. The history of wolf culling in the United States, almost to the point of extinction, attests to this point. Race Matters, Animal Matters covers three moments in American history: slavery , via readings of Frederick Douglass’s...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 178–192.
Published: 01 December 2013
... signifi cance. For it is
not only humanity’s proliferation of distinct homeostatic bodies,
one fi nds, that preoccupies Hawking—bodies that, in his purview,
must spread out to reduce the odds of global extinction. Rather,
this desire is but one in many that evidences the diffusive proper-
ties...
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