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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Jack W. Chen Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
... on the nonpresence of others. The di- alectic of immortality/mortality thus permits us to see ghosts with- out ever confronting the ominous possibility of “being” ghosts. This is not to suggest that the spectral belongs exclusively or pri- marily to the realm of visual phenomena...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of the normal open to commodification? The first of our contributions, Jack W. Chen’s “Poetry, Ghosts, Mediation,” turns to classical Chinese ghost poetry—poems literally authored by ghosts—to reflect on the paranormative dimensions of lyric poetry as such. Building on and departing from contemporary media...
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., all carried by the doves and crows of reading. Poems, slogans, wars, invasions, and skulls laughing in nightmares addicted to the night. A night raised by spears and swords, then passed on to missiles and satellites as they monitor the ghosts dancing in and around...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., the Indian Republicans commemorated, recalled with, acts of armed resistance that produced precisely what the body on the record evinced: that the end of human life carries the promise of continual return, onward but not forward. Indeed, Pearse writes in the preface to Ghosts (1916), “There is only one way...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 443–456.
Published: 01 December 2023
... has stopped. Robyn Creswell refers to Darwish’s late poetry as a “gathering of ghosts”—a phrase that could also describe Tengour’s recent work, now in his seventh decade. 10 I am honored to join this gathering. I listen closely to their voices as they chat late into the night. M ahmoud...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 199–200.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... TechnoLogics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Michael Nass. Derrida from Now On. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Alexander J. Nemeth. Voltaire’s Tormented Soul: A Psychobiographic Inquiry...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 13–28.
Published: 01 June 2001
... on the other hand, a non-believer (in fascism, above all) can't help but wonder about that specter. What if we continue to read against the grain, and interpret little Mario not as risen again, but as a ghost, a specter of fascism, or better, a specter that haunts fascism itself...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of existentialist polemic was completely impercep- tible; only a kind of ghost of prior history remained to give his essay THE POETICS OF NEW MEANING 9 its uncanny pitch. Once the explanation is supplied, it is still diffi- cult to see exactly how the terms...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 229–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., 2005). Ferit Guven, Madness and Death in Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005). Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Technologics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (Albany: State University...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 185–186.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth- Century America (2008); coauthor of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth- Century America (1999); and coeditor of Blackwell’s A Companion to Lesbian, Gay...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 215–248.
Published: 01 December 2010
... set aside, excluded, but nonetheless tolerated. But for all that no less fetishis- tic. The colonial dilemma is not the nation-people possessed by the nation’s ghost, but the (dead, universal) nation misrecognized as particular and living. Fanon’s diagnosis of this dilemma...
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., and Integrated Liberal Studies. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and the editor of Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Stanford University Press, 2002...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 December 2001
...- cal reason characteristic of our purportedly "post-ideological" age is strictly correlated with the apparent return of raw, irrational violence. In 2 i2ek's terms, the significant lesson taught by the Balkan ghost is the "Hegelian lesson that global reflexivization...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 201–218.
Published: 01 December 2001
... taught by the Balkan ghost is the "Hegelian lesson that global reflexivization/mediatization gener- ates its own brutal immediacy."6 Hence, arguably, the excessive, use- less violence of Kosovo or Columbine. The global reflexivization of everyday life...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... For more on Hegel’s status among early Soviet philosophers, see Pavlov, “Comrade Hegel.” 20. See Bohnenkamp, “Turning Ghosts into People,” 134–46 . 21. Avineri, “Hegelian Origins of Marx’s Political Thought,” 35 . 22. For a brief discussion of formalism in Maoist thought, see Chan...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 December 2010
... remains in a coma.” But the etymology of the word survive ghosts it with other pos- sible meanings. Of course, it comes from the Latin vivere, “to live.” But the prefi x super-, from which “sur” is derived, means “above, on the top (of), beyond, besides, in addition.” Thus there are echoes...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2014
... planetary slums where, to paraphrase Mike Davis, the politics of proletarian revo- lution have been replaced by the politics of the holy ghost. Huge en- claves of poor people fi nd sanctuary in religion today—evangelical Christianity in Latin America, North America, and southern Af- rica; populist...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 281–306.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to the ghosts of diaspora.” 21 In other words, diasporas must resist the utopian celebration of their syncretic flows and continue to speak, like Hamlet to his father’s ghost, to their own historical conditions while keeping those distinct from other histories. The nineteenth-century indenture of South...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 June 2012
... carved in the real coin- cide with the incompleteness of the signifying order, thus opening up a space which all sorts of ghosts may fi ll, like the ghost of old Hamlet and, through him, that impalpable object which is the dead king’s otherworldly voice. The mechanism...