... and event — be- tween eternity and historical time — as an "interminable" dialectical relationship. It is through this understanding of temporality that Chris- tianity emerges as the means or mode of the universal revolutionary break with the Law. Eternity — the Real, Capital, trauma...

...Barrett Watten Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 THE POETICS OF NEW MEANING Barrett Watten We are the new born, but there are no flowers. — Charles Olson, "La Preface" the day — is the mind...

...Delali Kumavie Abstract This essay argues that Lesley Nneka Arimah’s collection of short stories, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky , evokes para-worlds that reveal and contend with the world and its norms. Examining the collection’s entwinement of magical, mythical, and animist modes...

... on behalf of technics.” This interview asks about the meaning and consequences of this hypothesis but steers away from the all-too-easy poiesis-as-panacea solution to the computational quagmire. Instead, this interview descends into the computational medium, into the specificity of its logic, asking what...

...Divya Dwivedi Abstract Jean-Luc Nancy was concerned with commencement at several levels, of several kinds, in several senses, because he could speak of commencement with affirmation, which means with audacity. From the hospital in July 2021 he completed his last essay, which was intended...

... the desire for meaningful change from the phantasmatic demand for it. Alternatively, if the desire to be black is given to me from without, then what could it possibly mean for me to perform it, or be equal to it, as the innermost core of my being? And, even more oddly, if the letter always might...

... comes perilously close to demonstrating that all verse unfolds under the aegis of the word dust . The essay closes by suggesting that Jorie Graham’s poetry offers a new perspective on what it would mean to read the surface of a text, particularly when that text is dusty. 1. Holy Bible , Genesis...

... approach. Ṣadrā’s work allows us to rethink the boundary between philosophy and theology, and the essay proposes means to de-transcendentalize religious philosophy, if necessary. In its singularity, that fly in the above exercise is a sharp little inflection of the flow of being. It is immanence, which...

... at coming to tolerate the disagreeing community of the autoimmune body as it challenges normalized notions of what self and other, immunity and community, ease and disease mean. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 This article analyzes the concept of immunity and how the scientific...

... of this technical supplement that functions as the prosthetic by which man overcomes a hereditary deficiency, his original psychosis in Zola’s account, and is also the means by which he allegorizes history as progress. But this supplement must also disappear from view, or operate as a vanishing mediator. Because...

... it to enjoy a promiscuous, inclusive, and contradictory affi nity for apparent opposites. Zero Patience adopts the musical’s oscillation between narrative and number—two necessary components of the genre that are also largely at odds in their disposition to mean- ing and affect—to structure its...

... philosophy that believe that the way to handle conflict is through protracted interpretation. 1.5. — Why would you say that Judaism is based on revenge? And what does it mean to handle conflict through interpretation? J.B. —The prejudicial notion is that Judaism...

..., it loses its meaning and, concomitantly, its body; it becomes a lifeless thing-corpse. Thoreau compares matter that remains visible in the place of what used to be a meaningful thing to a “slough,” suggesting that what does not cir- 166 qui parle 23:1 • articles culate through a tribal...

... by consumption) of meaning one chooses to identify with. Perhaps one of Nancy’s most essential contributions for the present is to remind us that, despite the availability of all these meanings, none is enough. The promise of sufficiency through assignation and identification is empty. What is meaningful and has...

..., or masquerade. The authenticity of the very question, what the world might actually be, or, what it might actually be, its proper meaning, which then could be answered by the translated expressions of metaphors, is itself recognized through a paradigm of quotations.8 There is actually...

... not admit it, that bodies signify nothing; physiology is nothing without meaning , and those meanings do not cling to bodies like some kind of glutinous vapor or semiotic paste . 1 They commit subtle crimes when they bring he s to you, when they require your participation, on ethical grounds no less...

... (and not in an egotisti- cal one)—so that the execution succeeds. These conditions make possible—they en-able— success, and thus knowledge and morality. The concept of possibility here has not only a logical sense but also a practical one: to show the possibility of success means to discover those potentials...

... to the intersecting links within these two types of historical discourses. Both of them are concerned with understanding the ontological meaning of the irruption of Being into existence without appealing to an actual, visible manifestation of Being in the presence of the present. What...

... asked yourself what this could really mean, these “mothers / Daughters of their daughters.” You’re going to do just that right now, you’re going to ask yourself that question now. Now? Yes, now, which is to say, afterwards. Following in his footsteps, after him, “he” being Lévi...

... in the subject” (62); “the not yet, that blackness signifies . . . [which] has no signifiable meaning, even though it continues to generate potentially fatal interpretive effects” (344); “the mark of a negativity that cannot be phenomenalized as the work of negation [in the Hegelian sense], and by virtue...