...Eyal Weizman; Zachary Manfredi Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “From Figure to Ground” A Conversation with Eyal Weizman on the Politics of The Humanitarian Present eyal weizman and zachary manfredi The following dialogue between Zachary Manfredi and Eyal Weiz- man took place...

...Genevieve Renard Painter A review of Esmeir Samera , Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History ( Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2012 ). Cited in the text as jh . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 A Figure in Law and the Archive Samera Esmeir and the Making of Juridical...

... the figure of the urban stranger and passerby to argue for an aesthetics and ethics of social anonymity that does not rely on or demand identification and that thereby remains open to the risk, surprise, and pleasure of shared existence. In doing so, I theorize intimacy as that which remains unnameable...

...Thomas Schestag Abstract This essay gathers two contributions to conferences or panels delivered in 2015 and 2016. The liminal figure relating both incompletes is the Sammler , as discussed in two texts by Walter Benjamin: “Eduard Fuchs, der Sammler und der Historiker” (“Eduard Fuchs: Collector...

..., not in a messianic mode but in the temporal mode of biopolitical bare life? What is the temporal structure of precarious life? Furthermore, how does this Ashkenazi figural tradition of animal-headed Jews point to forms of resistance to the biopolitics of medieval Christendom? How is messianic theory now...

... , that is, prosopon pros prosopon . Prosopon , the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia ( prosopon poiein : to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence of prosopopoeia is found in the eighteenth-century British genre called “it-narrative,” in which inanimate things speak...

... Hartman’s Lose Your Mother , the article suggests that exhaustions of representation manifested in the turn to black theories of the subatomic reveal an absolute nonrecuperability of time-as-history. The argument unfolds through an impossible historicization of racial blackness that engages the figure...

... the key figures of the Rebirth, this essay shows how instances of absence were persistently elaborated, classified, and transformed into genealogies and historiographies; how nothingness was mined as a source of inspiration; and how nonalignment became a strategic choice. Copyright © 2018 Editorial...

... maxim in both contemporary and classical theories of affect. Focusing on the figure and question of the World and its grammars of relation(ality) and becoming, this essay considers the implications of an insistence on worlding in the context of anti-Blackness. It argues that the sustenance of the very...

..., becomes a generative terrain for thinking tensions in intersectionality as well as antagonistic figures of liberation, from the abolition of the value-form, gender, and the family to the proposition of the “end of the world.” ssorentino@ua.edu Copyright © 2023 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2023...

...Hank Willis Thomas FRAMES Hank Willis Thomas Qui Park, Vol. 13, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2003 0 Figure 1. Indecisive Moment, Scroon Lake, NY, Gelatin silver print, 1998...

... the place where the person — that is to say, the Figure — is seated" (FB, 5). A round area, an oval area, circles, plastic procedures, a well- delimited and characterized space, this is how Deleuze describes "what there is" ['ice qu'il y a"] in front of us, on the flat and autonomous surface...

... like to pose a question as to whether this choice of loyal- ties is a false one because it is defined in a language for which agency — even the most apparently straightforward human agency — is through and through figured, and specifically — as I will explain...

... on the solidity of religious belief" (GS, 70). However, the religious zealot is not the only figure that Lachenmann resembles: "The talk of 'contamination' . . . is redolent of turn-of-the-century pseudo- scientific textbooks about the invasion of German culture by alien bodies...

... to see him. "Blackness," the unnamed "biochemical accident" to which he refers, would appear to provoke this refusal. But insofar as the narrator is able to speak, to write, to figure his condition, his invis- ibility would appear not to be absolute. Indeed, the very...

... an Arabic one, the remains of one tradition rebound to be read by another but finally intelligi- ble to neither. All that survives of knowledge, in Malallah’s work, is its mutilated form. In The Active Ruins of Mesopotamia the an- cient figure of the perforated square reappears...

... has been figured as an alternative social paradigm. Second, we need to be sensitive to the manner in which Adorno and Horkheimer have "re-somatized," so to speak, the passage from paternal to fraternal power as decisive in the etiol- ogy of anti-Semitism. Noting how the adherents...

... first hypotheses to his final declarations, he never ceased to investigate the real men- tal or figurative functions from which the image derived its power. That his responses were linked to the end-of-the-1920s Germany in no way mitigates his fundamental intention — to modify the rela- tion...

... and that of its conversion, which is where the figure of the X first emerges. The question of how to present the end of black innocence without doing so too knowingly or not knowingly enough is one that constantly recurs, as my second epigraph suggests, in Hall’s sense of being assailed by notions defined...

.... FASCIST PUERILITY 15 I find myself both helped and hindered in this project by a number of scholars who have recently turned their attention to the temporality of the nation and nationalism, and in so doing have produced a variety of figures for its peculiarity. In his 1977...