...Benjamin Friedlander A SHORT HISTORY OF LANGUAGE POETRY / ACCORDING TO "HECUBA WHIMSY" Benjamin Friedlander The following study, abridged from a much longer work, is an ex- periment in criticism: a strict rewriting of Jean Wahl's A Short His- tory of Existentialism which faithfully...

...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...

...Michael Lucey This article uses the writings of Erving Goffman, M. M. Bakhtin, and Edward Sapir to pose some questions about what is happening when spoken language is produced. In particular, it looks at certain complexities of the partial roles of “animator,” “author,” and “principal,” into which...

...Jan Mieszkowski Abstract Tracing a trajectory of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient atomists to the late twentieth century, this essay explores the surprisingly consistent role that dust has played in the conceptualization of language. In Lucretius, Sophocles, and the New Testament...

...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...

... of biology premised on the analysis of space with attention to form over the analysis of language with attention to genetic code. kapowers@hs.uci.edu Copyright © 2022 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2022 prions philosophy of biology Georges Canguilhem vitalism code As a diagnostician, you...

... Holderlin and Heine, Adorno retains his most passionate exegeses of poetic language for the conserva- tive, restorative poets: George is defended against his circle; Eich- endorff against the tradition; and Borchardt against the student movement. Particularly striking are the names from twentieth...

...Anne Sauvagnargues Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Cartographies of Style Asignifying, Intensive, Impersonal anne sauvagnargues Translated by Suzanne Verderber Style sweeps away, infi ltrates, and overturns the signifying compo- nents of language, producing new percepts...

..., the problem of individual consciousness as the inner word (as an inner sign in general) becomes one of the most vital problems in the philosophy of language. —V. N. Vologinov3 Qui Pade,Vol. 14, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2004 58 DENISE...

... respond to their translation, which in turn would have to be translated back to Spanish, and so on endlessly. The concept of elsewheres seeks to convey a radical alterity between languages, in this case between what is usually referred to as Standard European Languages and Mesoamerican...

...). In short, the riveting character of literature lies in its close rela- tion to a child’s fi rst language- learning efforts, to early encounters with printed matter, and to writing’s own childhood phase when, in schoolroom manuals and picture books, it is still linked to im- ages...

... of thought in language and language in speech [ parole ]. To work on an object in thought is to put to the test (and to put oneself to the test of) a certain number of words and connections between words. The test is that of sense. Sense (which is not at all the fixed “signification” of words) is what...

...? Is there, in other words, a "voice" of language that says things, whether or not we speakers say them? In her book Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), Denise Riley examines the manifold, unaccountable ways in which things get said and get done in language, without anyone's consent...

... perception is so strongly privileged that, in modern as in ancient languages, the terms corresponding to the English voice (Latin: vox, Greek: pho¯ne¯) tend to denote a large spectrum of sound phenomena with either animate or inanimate sources. This means that voice is not primarily...

... of the origins of language and culture. Perhaps, one might in- terpret Blumenberg as saying, the long tradition of speculation on Qui Parle Vol. 12, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2000 56 SAMUEL MOYN origins in the West, so rich in the classical period as well as again in the seventeenth...

.... If we take (inter)disciplines at their lingual level, we are not even sure of what we say, what we say we said, what Dubreuil: A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises 171 you think I wrote, what we believed you thought I told them. There is defi nitively no “language...

...,” for with it “we must refer to what does not yet exist” as well as to what no longer exists (PL, 4). Between these two vec- tors—that which is no more, and that which is not yet—conversion relates language to religion and religion to language. It is revealed as a work of translation...

... by the pronounced boundaries of false particulars. But, the argument goes, the lyric poem's pre- sumed achievement of universality through "unrestrained individu- ation" runs the risk, by definition, of stark inauthenticity or unre- strained distortion, to play along with Adorno's language, if noth- ing else...

... appropriations, strong but aimed very low, very, very low. When they went low, we were nearly ko’d. As for me, today, relaying to Berkeley, I await instructions from the community of warrior-agitators and other highly articulate activists on the ground. I look to thought shelters, language bearers, those who...

... THE POETICS OF NEW MEANING 3 time interpretable within already existing codes and conventions, either of language or culture? Something so new that it escapes ex- isting frameworks of language or culture simply would not signify; the only kind of newness that would make sense outside a given...