...Emily O'Rourke A review of Rancière Jacques , Mute Speech , translated by Swenson James ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 ). Cited in the text as ms . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 For the Love of Democracy On the Politics of Jacques Rancière’s History...

... and Mute Agreement Der Jasager presents consent both as voluntary and coerced. A boy is to be asked whether he consents to the great custom that de- mands his death. A teacher declares that the law requires that the boy be asked what should be done; yet the boy must comply, must...

... on, but by a multiplicity of micro-events: bodies moving with the hours of the day, hands erasing the mist on the windows, known or unknown faces briefly appearing behind those windows, sonorous or muted footsteps resounding outside, a tune passing by, minutes sliding on one another and melting into an unnamed emotion...

... ow of both natu- ral and communal life, which generates its meaning and makes it a thing in the fi rst place. Having exhausted its concrete engagement in that life, a thing turns into a non- thing— a mute, inert object— which is nonetheless another condition that a thing...

... slides that analogized the Voder’s components to parts of the human vocal tract. Perrine told audiences that this technology might “enable mutes to talk.” “Some day,” he predicted, “it may be possible for a telephone cir- cuit to have a narrow frequency band in order to transmit only the specifi...

.... New York: Co- lumbia University Press, 2010. Moon, Michael. Darger’s Resources. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Pisters, Patricia. The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Ranciere, Jacques. Mute...

... burnt out of it, and no taint, no fl oating particle of anything but its own proper elements allowed to subsist within it” (TR, 97). No sound could exist to be heard in such an “empyrean” vacuum; Pater’s “music” is entirely stilled, wholly mute. This music is not only temporally situated before...

... relates this loss to the emergence of the masses as mute spectators watching their own annihilation. He believes that this loss of the ability to share experience and to link what we see to what we can describe originated in the First World War. What Benjamin was actually...

... to articulate the un(der)articulated inner-life of a class and to begin with nearly nothing. The intellec- tual, at least potentially, both transforms and creates the relation of subaltern classes to history—that is, to their muted history. This relation is always something new and so is a characteristic...

...; signifying enigmatically from “one who hears, mute, uncomprehending, far from all,” one that predates and prefigures the subject of the journal’s subsequent life: the ça within the qui , the it, the internal difference that displaces and disperses every gathering under the heading of identity...

... . OK, so I’m still learning. As panic shivers through me: muteness happens . In some sectors the mute burble constitutes an upgrade in the grapple with the poeticity of being. But, let’s face it, regressive sputtering rarely scores points on my beat. At most, I can make something of “muttering...

.... If the artist becomes the ambassador of the mute world, only language will help him to complete the decontextual- ization of the object, from the silent land of commodities into the meaningfulness of the art world. Words are in charge of bringing the spectator to the metaphysical wasteland located...

.... She and the child she cradles are fl attened into the dull gray background in front of which they are posed, yet in this muteness there is a distinct crispness to the contours of her hijab. In her arms, her son beams with light, as every groove of his face and every fold in the blanket he...

... in there, they don’t speak: they are seized by the routine of bodily action, a routine that imposes a certain muteness on these bodies, that justifies their turning their backs toward us, their bending over or their energetic striding toward the plastic baskets laying between them, full of fish and fish stench...

..., himself learned to rhyme ("true," "do," "through," "you Here he produces an elementary blues whose questions "what else could I do?" "What else but try to tell you?" echo the muted question (muted, like a trumpet, because it is delivered as a parenthesis) of "Black...

... that some of your own actual and seeming differences may also perhaps be part of the part of my own potential subjectivity that present power rela- tions have rendered other or mute within me. In attending to your otherness in a way that refuses to reduce or translate...

... Nardizzi (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 153. 8. Barbara Johnson, “Muteness Envy,” in Human All Too Human, ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1995), 341– 42. 9. Anne- Lise François, “‘O Happy Living Things Frankenfoods and the Bounds...

....” This imageless dreaming or dreamless sleeping may belong to a hal- lucinatory experience whose function is not the arousal or discharge of guilt with respect to nature’s woundedness, but a way of keeping time with its ongoing muteness. As Hartman writes in the essay version...

... Pierre invoking and addressing, with similarly overblown rhetoric, the "Mute Massiveness" of Saddle Meadows' Terror Stone: 46 SIANNE NGAI Eyeing the mass unfalteringly .. . he threw himself prone upon the wood's last year's leaves, and slid himself straight...

... of place and personhood that reduced them to mute subjects of National Socialism. It would be wrong to pretend that black practices of making homes and claiming kin was not already a highly contested site of fugitivity. For as Hortense Spillers has famously noted, in the face of the enduring historical...