...Veit Erlmann Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Refi guring the Early Modern Voice veit erlmann In 1672 audiences at the Académie royale de musique in Paris witnessed a rather unusual spectacle: Les peines et les plaisirs de l’amour, a “pastorale” composed by Robert Cambert. A blend...

...Laura Hengehold Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Revolution from Between Latour’s Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern laura hengehold In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault notes that ethnology was only possible due to an “absolutely singular event which involves...

...Simone Stirner A review of Huyssen Andreas , Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as mm . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 On the Miniature, the Modern, the Metropolis simone...

...John Brenkman Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “ . . . wrestling with (my God!) my God” Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief john brenkman Belief’s Modernity In the tradition of Pascal, inherited religious belief is wracked by doubt and the believer is brought face to face...

...Hossein Ayazi A review of Lowe Lisa , The Intimacies of Four Continents ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as ifc . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 REVIEW ESSAYS Liberal Modernity and Its Fictions Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents...

...Jennifer Bethke BOOK REVIEW Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics Under Fascism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 316 pages $65.00 (hardcover) Looking back at Italian Fascism, one of its most striking attributes isthe...

...Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui The Notion of “Rights” and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Modernity Indigenous Peoples and Women in Bolivia silvia rivera cusicanqui Translated by Molly Geidel This article attempts to undertake a reading of “gender” as it oper- ates in Bolivia’s juridical...

... 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...

...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...

... it nominates as religious. By reexamining Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, as well as his early studies of modern literature, this essay contends that a secular criticism aware of its commitment to both concepts of the religious allows for a more nuanced and powerful account...

... construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full recognition of the ubiquity and permanence of anti-Blackness in the modern world. Indeed, this article argues...

... and to disqualify a post-Heideggerian thought of difference in philosophy of art. It ultimately takes issue with Rancière’s effort to police the function of modern art. 7. Benjamin , Illuminations , 254. 8. “It is a grave and common error to impose a classification by periods or schools on works of art...

...Daniel Katz Abstract This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book . Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra...

...Jacques Rancière Abstract This essay uses constructions of avowed fiction from modern Western literature and criticism (Erich Auerbach, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner) to question the sense of reality constructed by dominant social discourses that claim to be the mere expression of reality...

...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...

...Jenny Sharpe Abstract This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility...

... modernity. Copyright © 2019 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 Indian Ocean slavery blackness Black feminism physics Saidiya Hartman Sometimes studies of the premodern Indian Ocean world risk anachronism by admitting race, often to conclude with the typical assertion of its fluid and ambiguous...

... and its impressive staying power that makes understandable the violence and force with which the mimesis for- mula was finally overthrown in a long process beginning on the cusp of the Renaissance. The absolute and vengeful nature of hu- man creation in modern times can only...

... happens when something becomes present in passing away, when something lives in its death. "Living means leaving traces The Spectacle of Sovereignty, or the Spectacles of Modernity In February 1898, more than a year after the beginning of the Campanha de Canudos, perhaps the most...

... might think to be a genealogy were it not to suggest why that particular mode of explanation has perhaps, for now, run its course).2 Apart from the rather crucial use his lifelong friend and interlocutor Bruno Latour made of his work in We Have Never Been Modern...