...Basit Kareem Iqbal In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty...

... to cultural analysis remains an underappreciated and vital methodological resource for researchers who wish to rehabilitate the concept of totality today. 2. For an excellent overview of the connection between biological and nationalistic thought in early twentieth-century Germany, see Harrington...

... Pound to restore the true progressive political potential of Pound’s poetry. Using a largely Freudian methodology, Duncan finds in “kitsch” Pound a vector that opposes his authoritarian fascism. The essay then examines how Poundian poetics operates in Duncan’s poetry written in opposition to the Vietnam...

... supplements existing immune theory with their own emergent and embodied theory, they develop an autoimmune methodology based on their experience of living with an autoimmune disease. Part personal narrative, part speculative autoimmune theory, the article ultimately calls for a practice of self-care aimed...

...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 the market and schematically reconstructs Hayek’s line of argumentation from his economic paradigm backward to his theory of cognition. Eventually, in Hayek’s interpretation, connectionism provides a relativist cognitive paradigm that justifies the “methodological individualism” of neoliberalism. Copyright...

...Brett Zehner Abstract This methodologically important essay aims to trace a genealogical account of Herbert Simon’s media philosophy and to contest the histories of artificial intelligence that overlook the organizational capacities of computational models. As Simon’s work demonstrates, humans...

..., and Merab Mamardashvili are brought in as the exemplary methodists who elaborate Marxist methodology to encompass genesis and dialectical difference within systemic abstraction. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2024 dialectics...

... treated in its own full-length work. The aim of Being and Motion , to which this essay is a historical introduction, is to put forward a robust and systematic historical ontology of motion. The first part of Being and Motion provides the methodological framing for the project based on “historical...

...-representationalist methodological possibility emerges within the context of literary Romanticism as a revised theory of mimesis modeled on an idealist concept of nature as a dynamic and, above all, productive or generative force.18 82 ANTHONY REYNOLDS As Rorty acknowledges, both Charles...

... is both a generous methodology and an active act that asserts Berlant’s own writing voice. They are cutting up the “bruised fruit of [their] perspective” and sharing a messy slice with the reader. On the Inconvenience of Other People has many methodological features like this, where a little quirk...

... plucking the methodological kernel, while discarding the husk. According to DeNora, Adorno made two great contributions to music sociology. First, Adorno articulated not only how social practices shape music, but how musical procedures (the specific ways in which...

... principles.3 The first principle is methodological and states that the inquirer must begin by withholding assent from all beliefs that are not "completely cer- tain."4 We are to employ methodological skepticism to root out all beliefs about which error is possible...

..., Lowe fashions a shared space for both without fore- closing the incommensurabilities between them. In both content and methodology, The Intimacies of Four Continents therefore coheres the myriad modes of analysis prompted by past and present intima- cies between seemingly...

... Derrida, Of Grammatology Stefania Pandolfo’s exciting and deeply profound ethnography, Knot of the Soul , offers the most extensive analytic framework to consider madness in a Muslim-majority context (in this case, contemporary Morocco) and to address broader methodological questions concerning...

... the production of nations, as Benedict Anderson has argued, the produc- tion of diaspora itself thus becomes an imaginative event.16 In addition to advocating interdisciplinary methodology, you’ve identifi ed as an “unceasing advocate of interethnic studies,” citing your own formal...

..., and support- ers such as Norman Brown, observed, there could be a neurotic dimension to efforts at historical recovery: think of how much of history is, at the methodological level, the delineating of events for recovery, that is, the resituating of it as an even more rigorous as- sertion of covering...

... anthropological methodologies. Where other models (Popper, for example) do not attempt to reconcile these forms, Mialet proposes a marriage of body and anti-body. But this is complicated: only sometimes does Mialet give the subject a preferred status in the relationships between...

... on the “cultural turn” in the humanities and social sciences, methodological—of the relationship between aesthetic production and conceptualizations of difference.3 If it would be easy to read such anecdotes of the painter’s experi- ence abroad through a framework of cultural difference...

... and elucidate Hegel’s text). Pahl’s particular methodological innovation lies in an acute attunement to the dis- tinctions and interconnections between different levels that exist in the Phenomenology: “the syncopating measures of poetic rhythm, the virtual present of theatrical...