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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Peter Szendy Abstract “Face value,” according to the OED , is “the value printed or depicted on a coin, banknote, ticket, etc., especially when less than the actual value.” But we could hear in this expression an imperative—“face value!”—an injunction to consider value face to face...
FIGURES
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Neferti X.M. Tadiar Copyright © 2003 Qui Parle 2003 IN THE FACE OF WHITENESS AS VALUE:
FALL-OUTS OF METROPOLITAN HUMANNESS
Neferti X.M. Tadiar
What is a spirit, after all, but an untold story, a novel
that awaits to be written...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 107–151.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Scott Ferguson Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 The Face of Time between
Haeckel and Bergson; or,
Toward an Ethics of Impure Vision
scott ferguson
Here as there, pure absolute Being cannot do without the organ of
its visibility, the medium by means of which it not only...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 189–229.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Liron Mor Abstract This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿ im ha-panim elenu ( The One Facing Us , 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 383–422.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and the shrinking time and space of Palestine that ultimately expresses the ontological and political insecurity faced by Palestinians. 2. I am using in (toward Ramallah) and out (of Ramallah) in the everyday manner in which it is employed; although the directionality of going in and out is problematic...
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“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Justin Raden Abstract This essay argues that the difficulties Émile Zola faced in closing the Rougon-Macquart novel cycle reveal a political imaginary whose notion of a clean line of progress depends on a technical supplement it disavows. At critical points Zola’s method exposes the disavowal...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 249–291.
Published: 01 December 2021
...-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 45–74.
Published: 01 December 2016
... la proximité de mon visage et de mon vagin”
(I cannot accept the proximity of my face and my vagina). So says Al-
ice (Charlotte Alexandra), the troubled teenaged protagonist of Cath-
erine Breillat’s 1976 feature-fi lm debut, Une vraie jeune fi lle (US release
title A Real Young Girl).1 As we...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 177–204.
Published: 01 December 2004
... figure of
the "bodiless head" by which he means to mark his invisibility
would appear to confer some minimal visibility on the narrator,
and it suggests that the refusal of the black body is perhaps never
complete. A mouth, a face, may tend stubbornly to persist...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and from the determi-
nation of African American photographers and newspaper editors
to make the shocking image of Emmett Till’s face visible to the
public, the exhibit and its accompanying volume powerfully affi rm
the role of the visual media in bringing racial violence into public
view...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the novel’s discovery of this posthuman natural history. Copyright © 2019 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 Theodor W. Adorno Marcel Proust Anthropocene The book of Genesis tells of a vast and fertile plain condemned, cursed to fire, then wiped off the face of the earth. Punished for the sins...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the camera cuts to his face in the mirror, showing us the look of intense suffering that moves across it as water soaks the wounds. At this point in the film, the cause for Lohan’s wounds is unknown. But as he gets dressed for the day, it becomes clear that his injuries have something to do with the work he...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 December 2004
... defines painting, etc. Accordingly,
Deleuze seems to bring us face to face with the work of art in the
form of a "here is what there is" ["voila ce qu'il y a The exem-
plary description of what one of Bacon's paintings presents to the
spectator begins in this way: "A round area often delimits...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 103–136.
Published: 01 June 2001
...-
viduality. "Workers" no longer have names, faces, and identities
but rather play fixed parts in an endless, massive, and technocratic
society. The workers are formed by military discipline and industrial
tasks, wherein order, obedience, standardization, and function char-
acterize all social...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 59–83.
Published: 01 December 2009
... construction), we can assume that human
agency does not exist except when it is denied, at risk of imminent
peril, in the face of constraint: it supplies the foundation for an
acceptable self-representation as agent that leaves one’s sense of
autonomy intact. We should ask...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., 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 human voice.
But it is a far cry from...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
called "globalization with a human face." These New Democrats are
merely one iteration of the trans-Atlantic turn of the traditional Left
to the accomodationist politics of the "Third Way" (Tony Blair, Lionel
Jospin, Gerhard Schroder). On the other hand, the new American...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 201–218.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and the Great Society, its collusion with post-Cold War
American militarism, and its active efforts to engineer something
called "globalization with a human face." These New Democrats are
merely one iteration of the trans-Atlantic turn of the traditional Left...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as caught in the incommen-
surable contradiction between two images: vagina and face. This, in
turn, opens onto a reading of Breillat’s “vaginal vision” as antinomy
itself, a vision that underwrites her larger body of work, fi lmic and
textual. Young situates Breillat’s vaginal vision...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 December 2015
... face and spirit of Berkeley that would, the
university hoped, help to raise spirits in a time of austerity and
thereby raise a lot of cash (see fi g. 2). “Thanks to Berkeley . . .” ex-
udes confi dence and pride; it is a full- throated expression of Cal’s
offi cial self-image...
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