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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 53–62.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Jared Sexton; Huey Copeland Copyright © 2003 Qui Parle 2003 RAW LIFE': AN INTRODUCTION Jared Sexton & Huey Copeland l came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 135–160.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Neferti X. M. Tadiar Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Decolonization, “Race,” and Remaindered Life under Empire neferti x. m. tadiar To speak of empire today is to speak about a global dispensation of power predicated on, and furthering, the aims of capitalist accu- mulation...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 249–269.
Published: 01 December 2017
... allows me to pummel at a stubborn knot in life. In his work on cryptonymy, Laurence Rickels has claimed that background music rings a death knell. That may be so. I’m always hitching a ride on the death drive—the flex of my drivenness—a sure fire way to language. Doing without the rhythmic support...
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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 (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Bernard Stiegler The concept of entropy has been applied to life and, in Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s bioeconomics of exosomatization, to human life. These accounts of “negentropy” must be reinterpreted in the age of the data economy, however, from a perspective that starts from the technological...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 June 2021
... increasing wildfires and unbreathable air, and the brutal policing of Black American life. The short meditations in this dossier, from academics in various fields as well as creative writers, are responses to our current moment’s heightened awareness of the complexities of one of the most fundamental...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
... discusses two Chinese critics’ engagement with Chernyshevsky’s treatise The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality (1853). Here Chernyshevsky advanced the proposition “Beauty is life.” In the 1930s and 1940s the literary theorist Zhou Yang read Chernyshevsky and produced a Chinese translation in 1942. In 1963...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 125–158.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Adrian de Leon Abstract Through a sustained engagement with The Precarious Life of the Parol , an installation art exhibition by the Filipinx artist Diane Williams, this essay theorizes “brown gathering”: a quotidian practice of archiving that mobilizes the kinship networks of minoritarian subjects...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Tina M. Campt What changes in our understanding of the experience of black communities in diaspora when we move beyond the binaries of stillness and motion to engage black life through the lens of stasis? This essay explores a collection of vernacular photos of a black German family in the Third...
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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 tradition coherence methodology temporality In 2009 Qui Parle (17, no. 2) republished Talal Asad’s 1986 paper “The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam” in an effort to make more...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 121–155.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Dora Zhang Abstract This essay argues that we do not yet fully recognize and attend to the importance of atmospheres as social and political phenomena of everyday life, and draws on a range of approaches to examine these ordinary and ubiquitous sites of affective charge. First charting how creating...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to be an abiding preoccupation of Hall’s work. In particular, because blackness (or its notion) is never innocent, this essay explores the consequences of a certain undecidability that attends any encounter between representation and difference. And it is this X—its shaping of black meaning and life—that alerts us...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and recount their life narrative. The first of these novels—Charles Gildon’s Golden Spy (1702)—gives voice to a bunch of coins. And the genre becomes self-reflexive when money starts to “coin words,” like the autobiographical protagonist of The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770). Drawing on ancient sources...
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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 (2020) 29 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anna Feuerstein Abstract This essay analyzes two late Victorian texts by white women colonists in South Africa—F. Clinton Parry’s children’s book African Pets (1880) and Annie Martin’s memoir Home Life on an Ostrich Farm (1890)—to nuance understandings of animality as racialization. By reading...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 51–86.
Published: 01 June 2021
... lowest place, rather than with the nomos and topos imposed by the (modern) world and its regime of the proper. Immanence is thought of as anti- and antenomian force, a groundless ground coming underneath the conceptual logics of the world, its normative order of things, and life lived according to its...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 June 2022
... with the psychosomatics of Black life. This article begins by examining the exceptional narrative of Barney Hill, America’s first and thus far only popular Black abductee. Then it brings into focus UFOlogy’s aporetic negation of racial subjectivity and suggests that the UFO abduction phenomenon is, a posteriori...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
... life, ingenuity, and history. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2022 religion criticism the secular literature Edward Said The argument of this essay is straightforward: there is an ambiguity in Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism...