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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Aaron Frederick Eldridge Abstract How does tradition, a transmission of body and language, disclose a form of life? This article takes as its point of departure Talal Asad’s methodological pivot away from the modern concept of “belief” to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of “form of life...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 1–75.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... This article argues that preoccupation with influence inscribes an a priori ontology that already separates the past from the present. This makes it difficult to understand the relation between temporality and a form of life in a discursive tradition, as the question of influence grounds the ostensive...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., 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...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 137–166.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., stolon (runner) formation and grafting are considered here because they are vegetal forms of procreation that are not rooted in sexual difference and create collective life forms that are based on dividuality rather than individuality. Both characteristics are mobilized for a queer imagination. Analyzing...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 195–218.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life. Copyright © 2017 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2017 32. Asad, Genealogies of Religion , 13. 33. Included in Clifford and Marcus , Writing Culture , 141–64, and in Asad, Genealogies of Religion , 171–99. 34. Anidjar...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in ways that have little to do with its intended forms of reception. Without delving too deeply into the black horror literary tradition, I will only note that the most acclaimed voices of literary horror today also tend to elevate the everyday horrors of black life over otherworldly ones. At the top...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... 77 Seemingly, Canguilhem’s materialism is best understood through a concept of environment because of the relationship of biological normativity to Darwin’s concept of adaptation, with which Darwin articulates an evolved suitability of biological form to its surroundings. On the “habits of life...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
... from their metaphysical to their everyday use.” The everyday use to which Wittgenstein constantly refers is far from self-evident: it is just as elusive and indeterminate as our forms of life. The project of Philosophical Investigations is not to replace disqualified logic with the study of use...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,
radically unpredictable quality of life-forms. Life-forms recede into
strangeness the more we think about them, and whenever they
encounter one another—the strangeness is irreducible. Ecological
philosophy that does not attend to this strangeness is not think-
ing coexistence deeply enough. Like...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 353–372.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the subject and its forms, which is but a first gesture in regard to a mode of thinking that contemplates virtuality and actuality all and at once.” 19 Releasing the imagination is not the promise of life; rather, it separates anything we might call “life” from form, releasing pure matter. 20...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
... such as Chernyshevsky, Belinsky, and Dobroliubov was their claim of life’s supersession over idealistic and abstract forms of beauty. In this essay Zhou cited Lenin’s discussion of Chernyshevsky in his 1908 Materialism and Empirio-criticism to underscore the significant influence of Feuerbach. As Lenin reminded...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... distribution of human beings and forms of life. The poetic opposition of two ways of linking events in a horizontal connection itself rested on a vertical division of temporalities, a hierarchy separating two forms of life and two categories of human beings. The temporality of the causal connection...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 135–160.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the protocols of citizen- man, the precur-
sor of the proper subject of globopolitical life) that the US technocrat-
ic production of Filipino subjects as particular forms of social relation
to work, nature, and value, indeed as particular dispositions toward
oneself and others, bears...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., that is, as stripped clean
of animality, as driven.
Toward the end of The Rings of Saturn, this same, slightly com-
ic exhibition of the compulsion to repeat is used by Sebald to de-
pict a form of life in decline, that of the English landed gentry in
postcolonial Ireland, sunk...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 231–246.
Published: 01 June 2017
...,” to a comparison of the bleak liberal aesthetic and Adornian aesthetics, which sharpens the distinctions between what she understands as liberal versus radical critique. For Anderson, the liberal aesthetic mediates the experience of theory as a form of life whose embodied “pressures of existence” will “always...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
...William Morgan; Kyra Sutton References Abeysekara Ananda . “ Religious Studies’ Mishandling of Origin and Change: Time, Tradition, and Form of Life in Buddhism .” Cultural Critique 98 , no. 1 ( 2018 ): 22 – 71 . Anidjar Gil . Semites: Race, Religion, Literature...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 245–266.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... Under capitalism, life is worth only what the value form can procure from social time after having constituted itself on the dead labor of the living. Socially necessary labor time, as contained in the commodity form, is translated into money in a transactional moment in which that time finds its...
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Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Languages, Nahuatl in particular.
Writing elsewheres would consist of drawing the limits of
what I will call, following Jacques Derrida, Greco-Abrahamic forms
of life.3 These limits would be conceptualized as the frontiers of
empire, in the sense that these are areas in the process...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 225–248.
Published: 01 December 2012
...—calls to limit nicotine or al-
cohol use, to wander in nature, and to display the naked body. But
in Germany the intense lived experience of the battlefi eld formed
the basis of a new Kriegsideologie. The German Erlebnis captures
this fusion of life and experience. To live meant to live life...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 1–49.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the essence of his or her work consists. More rad-
ically, race is the abyssal region where the native/slave is forced to
abdicate the power to represent himself or herself in life, except in
the form of a specter. Race•inaugurates therefore the time when the
human disappears, fades away, or quite...
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