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... such as Agamemnon or Eteocles try to take action, their deci- sions and acts recoil against them with fatal results. Their initiative is usurped and reversed by an external force, fate, that provokes their death. Thus it would seem that the human imagination si- multaneously enables and thwarts agency...

... and their strong emotional reac- tion to the situation. He also omits the suffering and unbearable sadness of the teacher caused by the boy’s death. In Taniko, the teacher refuses to continue the journey and demands to be admin- istered the same fate as the boy. His grief, he claims, is similar...

... international de philosophie, Paris. She is the author of Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics. j. m. bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation...

... D. Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes . New York : Fordham University Press , 2018 . Hall Stuart . The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation , edited by Mercer Koben . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017...

... in a collector’s, or rather in this collector’s, relation to his possessions. But the English stocks comes closer than possessions to the German word Bestände . To collect is a passion that verges on the chaotic; a collector’s passion borders on the chaos of remembrance, mixing chance and fate in what...

.... Paul's dual- ism on its head, have attempted to bridge the chasm between the Me and the Not Me (a chasm Freud demonstrated as the true source of all our woe). We, the merest biological mechanisms," as Stevens phrased it (LWS, 294), are born to die, and born also to the fate of knowing...

... in their functional context is at the heart of her current work on the Critique of Pure Reason. STANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory (Columbia U P, 1986; rev...

... and into the blood. With each breath near a 3D printer, its users accrete a plastic materiality. Two decades of media materialism have taught us what media are made of: rare earth metals exhumed in Inner Mongolia, aluminum refined from Australian bauxite, all fated to the e-waste trash dumps littering the global...

... thereby remain blind to the ways that any X might always be the double or counterfeit of such desire: on us as readers of the two fates and the two X’s falls the realization that the relation of rhetoric to politics might always result in a radical or fatal mistake, or a murderous degree of violence...

... future but is unable to get there, we must be saved from salvation, redeemed by the only messiah who cares enough about us to abandon us to our fate. Nietzsche’s Disappointing Style In “Cruel Optimism,” Lauren Berlant points to the ways that our attachments are based on what she calls “clusters...

... and urging us to look up to the stars for new, yet unpolluted environments? What is the fate of ecology when the house is a machine for dwelling or for living in, which is not at all diff erent from dying in, though factually, death is predominantly relegated to a sterilized space...

... fulfi llment. Even if the current state of world affairs is confusing, even if the being of those living in the world is inaccessible, and even if the fate of these living beings is unfathomable, the market has, apparently, nevertheless founded a solid reserve in the civil...

... performative paradoxes, theological and otherwise. Put a different way, if the demos is to be sovereign, it must not only be legitimately formed and united, but it must act and ultimately de- cide over its collective fate. This requires, however, conditions that are nearly impossible to attain, much...

...- ologically used in the Wilhelminian age, behind the contempt of contemporary business in all spheres stands the unwavering inter- est in the earthly and otherworldly fate of the individual. Philoso- phy has to take account and because the balance is negative, the Saint is right...

... into battles with ourselves.”38 Ward’s project in TKP—his shorthand for the book, which is subtitled “A Journal of Trauma and Recovery”—is nothing less than shoring up his, or our, contribution to the bio- cultural fate of the species. To this end, Ward advocates “creating what...

... is not a “benign” order but a “malignant plan,” an “antihuman machinery”—a malign lack of order that eventually overruns all our intentions for authoring the course of our lives ( B , 133, 134). To be ultimately broken against this malignant nonorder is the fate of a character like Nostromo who, like many...

.... Closer to us, we fi nd Jonathan Swift’s hor- rifying Struldbruggs, those undying beings who appear in book 3 of Gulliver’s Travels. Having contemplated the utterly monstrous physical degradation of those whose fate is endless senility, Gul- liver notes wryly that the sight...

... ago, was a biography of Michel Foucault that allowed me to pay tribute to a friend who had disappeared, to his work so abruptly interrupted—and here we must think of his daunting project on the History of Sexuality, which, in a cruel twist of fate, he did not have time...

... poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008). Known and loved throughout the Arab world, and often described as Palestine’s national poet, Darwish both embraced and, particularly in later years, chafed against the ties that bound the reception of his poetry to the political fate of his homeland. 2 In this poem...

... in new modes of value production and life extraction, which have resulted in both a proliferation of social differences (in shifting scales) and a staggeringly profound breach in the fates of human beings. Beyond the protocols and ideals of political community estab...