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From the Theory of Technology to the Technique of Metaphor: Blumenberg's Opening Move
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Rüdiger Campe Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 FROM THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY
TO THE TECHNIQUE OF METAPHOR:
BLUMENBERG'S OPENING MOVE
Riidiger Campe
Whereas products of modern science and technology sever
themselves from what was there before they emerged, techne...
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Unfamiliar Methods: Blumenberg and Rorty on Metaphor
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 77–103.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Anthony Reynolds Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 UNFAMILIAR METHODS:
BLUMENBERG AND RORTY ON METAPHOR
Anthony Reynolds
To ask "how metaphors work" is like asking how
genius works. If we knew that, genius would...
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Metaphorically Speaking: Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the Problem of Origins
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Samuel Moyn Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING:
HANS BLUMENBERG, GIAMBATTISTA VICO,
AND THE PROBLEM OF ORIGINS'
Samuel Moyn
"To speak of beginnings is always to be suspected of a mania for
returning to origins," the contemporary German philosopher...
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A Living Community: Theorizing Immunity from the Autoimmune
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 285–307.
Published: 01 December 2020
... than metaphorize, the theoretical stakes of current immune theory. As a counterargument to dominant theorizations of immunity that pathologize or metaphorize the autoimmune bodily experience, the article forwards a more spacious, material, and affirmative theorization of the body. As the author...
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Blanchot and Lautréamont
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 95–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
... on Lautréamont and shows how they constitute the first considered attempt within his thinking to examine the notions of the fantastic and the image in relation to the experience of metaphor. This survey not only enables a renewed understanding of the significance of Lautréamont’s writings but also reveals how...
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The Symptomatological Imagination: On Cultural Analysis as Historical Diagnosis
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and social analysis. The dispute culminates in Max Weber’s nuanced defense of biological metaphors as indispensable heuristic devices for cultural inquiry that can nevertheless result in dangerous consequences when they are inappropriately employed. This essay ultimately argues that Weber’s contribution...
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Introduction
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2000
... fields,
Haverkamp follows Blumenberg in focusing on metaphor as the foun-
dation of all human conceptual systems for understanding the world
and shaping it. "Imitation of Nature" was written before Blumenberg
had fully developed his methodological theory of "metaphorology...
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The Elusive “Elementary Atom of Music”
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 117–143.
Published: 01 December 2004
... for the claim that all musical hearing is
hearing-as. Thus, any experience of music will necessarily import
metaphors into the aural experience. In musical listening all
sounds become tones, and all tones are metaphorical.
As Scruton argues, "our experience of music...
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“A Voice without a Mouth”: Inner Speech
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 57–104.
Published: 01 December 2004
... auditory, but to the
metaphorical still small voice of conscience.
While the history of solitude remains to be written, an allur-
ing project, at least one of its close companions has enjoyed a sep-
arate career in its own right. Inner speech as a phenomenon has
proved a severe trial...
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Mass Times Acceleration: Rhetoric as the Meta-Physics of the Aesthetic
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 127–143.
Published: 01 June 2000
... for the
theoretical development," — "a process" Einstein adds (Princeton,
1953), "which is probably in no way finished."4
130 ANSELM HAVERKAMP
Kuhn therefore underestimates—and in so doing forgets Mach
— the detour: the surplus and metaphorical value of all "practi-
cally...
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Police Actions in Aesthetics: Rancière Reading Deleuze and Lyotard on Art
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 61–77.
Published: 01 June 2017
... form might communicate with a political struggle, speak to it, resonate with it, perhaps inspire it, already entails metaphor enough for Rancière (who understands this last term from its etymology, which implies a carrying over). Not only does the passage from What Is Philosophy? pass over the formal...
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Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 77–107.
Published: 01 June 2014
... they associate with
the concept? To some extent this is captured in one of the more
pervasive metaphors used— especially by liberals and neoliberals—
whenever the role of the state and state sovereignty is discussed.
In Friedman, the state is likened to a referee or an umpire...
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Wittgenstein in the Moonlight: On the Nonexistence of Riddles
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to have shared an interest in what being keeps from coming into being and how to make that available to thought. 23 While their investments and preferred metaphors are often incompatible, both Wittgenstein and Levinas pursue traces of the transcendent where direct perception of it is impossible...
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From The Bosch Bookshelf
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 253–257.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that conspicuous
absence of real metaphors in nature. Sorry,
meant to say, there’s that conspicuous absence
of real nature in metaphors. Someone will
always claim night fl ew into a tree. The
placement of words in a line.
256 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2
3. The Long...
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The X of Representation: Rereading Stuart Hall
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
... not of ambivalence but of the impure relation of blackness to thought, which involves the way in which blackness is conceived and through which it is often represented, which is at once a metaphoric form and politico-ontological concept. This notion is that of a void that arises in the midst of being...
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Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils: Memory and Materiality in Georges Didi-Huberman’s Transvaluation of Surface
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 249–291.
Published: 01 December 2021
... offers an apt biological metaphor of the subject’s failure to detach libidinal investment from the maternal object. 95 It is noteworthy, I think, how closely Didi-Huberman situates Penone’s sculptural philosophy and practice and Warburg’s approach to memory of cultural forms. The presentations...
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Face Value (the Prosopa of Money)
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... beg pardon, though, I did once personate my papa. Come, I know you are not in a hurry—I’ll tell you all about it” ( a , 130). Without listening to the story then told by Mr. Coventry, we can deduce from his short discussion of Shakespeare’s all-too-famous metaphor that, in the general...
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Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to the seamless
web of photography, activism, and visibility.4
I choose the metaphor of “wrinkle” deliberately to shift the con-
versation from the sound or tone of photography, which perpetu-
ates the traditional use of musical metaphors to render feeling in
art, to the textural...
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Meditations in Midair
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 257–274.
Published: 01 June 2014
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disciplinary adventures are expressions of a quest for a new idiom
with a replenished repertoire of metaphors that break with mod-
ernist regimes of knowledge. This maneuver is a basic requirement
of a work which holds that “the tools that humanists have at their
266 qui parle 23:1 • review essays...
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Sympathetic Distance and Victorian Form
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 December 2014
... or him. By contrast, Smith’s Theory of Moral
Sentiments (1759), while relying heavily upon the language of the
visual, presents a metaphor for sympathetic transmission that is
crucially narrative-driven, routed through the imaginative facul-
ties, or, as Greiner puts it, through “speculation...
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