...David Copenhafer INVISIBLE MUSIC (ELLISON)' David Copenhafer In music what is at stake is not meaning, but gestures. To the extent that music is language, it is, like nota- tion in music history, a language sedimented from...

...” the key binaries of Western historiography of art and material culture: surface/depth, exteriority/interiority, visibility/invisibility, and malleability/rigidity. Focusing on imaginal representations of memory objects in Didi-Huberman’s two essays Bark and Being a Skull , the essay situates these texts...

... apart the recently pro- claimed Republic,4 it had paradoxically remained until now both invisible — in the slipperiness of its meaning, its concrete instances, its geopolitical distance — and vastly visible — in the attention it had garnered in the front pages...

... there be X and Y; X is with Y, simultaneous with Y which is nevertheless absolutely independent of it. This is to say that art manifests or implements the invisible real without modifying it, incarnates it without destroying or transforming it. Aesthetic pleasure is born...

... weeks at the time of writing), now involves issuing a dif- ferent call each week that highlights a different person’s story.3 This is a tactic that serves to counteract the erasing effect of enforced disappearance, which renders individuals not only invisible but also anonymous...

... between sanity and insanity, the visible and the invisible, and is traversed in the imaginative paintings of Ilyas. The second movement pertains to “the world of undocumented migration” and characterizes the struggles of Kamal and Jawad, whose unsuccessful efforts to find refuge in the global North leave...

... of an available way to understand totality in everyday experience, totality “poses an aesthetic problem, in the sense of demanding ways of representing the complex and dynamic relations intervening between the domains of production, consumption and distribution . . . of making the invisible visible.” 4...

... of darkness that subtends cinema” (ect, 185), Duras here extrapolates from this theft to confi scate the present moment itself, protectively secreted in an invisible fold of non- action. And once again: this gets us nowhere. Happily, this gets us nowhere. These fi lms, especially...

... in 1874, the structure of the republican habitus contin- ued to function through the invisible axis of the “two republics” (one of the subjects, the other of the citizens).6 As a matter of fact, Rivera Cusicanqui: Postcolonial Modernity 31 women and Indians only...

... through the “secreted invisibility [of] the hands of one of the participants perhaps, or installed permanently as is the case with surveillance cameras” (CI, 22). This reality has never been more palpable in our national case than most recently with the Boston Marathon bomb...

... of the territory in which it was formulated, to the non-territorial principle of citizenship, to its universal principle. CITIZENS OF DISASTER II I This shift produces a residue, characterized by an invisibility, that includes all those...

... . They archive this family’s capacity to inhabit both racialization as an ongoing wound of dispossession, and the assumed impossibility of black Germanness in this period. The suspended motion we encounter in these photographs echoes the invisibility that such performances of blackness paper over yet...

... will not be resurrected as they were, what has happened there has changed the atmosphere. The alternate world built in that space made it newly thinkable to do politics outside the two-party system; evictions that had been invisible because of shame were now in everybody’s sight, and the link between democracy...

... is the universality of sorrow itself. Seen in these intensive terms, the crucifi xion darkness bleeds into a universal auto- affective domain that is invisible, seeming- ly impossible, and properly free from the operation of effi cient causes. Via this radically immanent hidden space, this visible tem- poral...

... the violence invisible. It is against this taboo that Georges Didi-Huberman testifi ed in his short but infl u- ential treatise— a plea for attention to even the vaguest photographs of Auschwitz: “In order to know, you must imagine,” as his opening sentence has it.11 And in order...

... norms, orders, schemas, names, utility, and satisfaction. Of course, this is also a matter of beauty, because the aesthetic is, by definition, the wandering pursuit after that which would otherwise remain invisible. It is something like a desire for the pleasure that comes in the encounter...

... or Vogl: The Sovereignty Effect 131 metaphor— that everyone knows and whose career began in the eighteenth century. I mean, of course, the image or concept of the “invisible hand,” which Adam Smith employed on several occa- sions and defi ned more precisely in 1776 with his The Wealth of Nations...

... literary tradition. Such a place paradoxi- cally found ontological support in subaural and invisible motion. A Sinister Resonance In addition to two Marlow- narrated stories, “Youth” and Heart of Darkness, the 1902 volume Youth contained “End of the Tether,” a story in place...

... of esophageal length and pacing, order and function. And this precise plan of digestion is precisely demonstrat- ed; if there is a monster here, it is not the made thing, but monstrare to the letter: a showing, teaching, putting on display. The invisibility of digestive processes is given visible form...

...Sinan Antoon Copyright © 2007 Qui Parle 2007 NECROPOLIS Sinan Antoon I You cannot step into the same Baghdad twice. II I lean on an invisible wall and gaze at an abyss whose dimen- sions are Baghdad X Baghdad. The Baghdad of space and the Baghdad of time...