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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 121–158.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Karen Barad Nature’s Queer Performativity
karen barad
“Acts against nature”—what beastly images are conjured by this
phrase? When “acts against nature” are committed, the crimes are
of no small measure. Moral indignation is oozing forth, like amoe-
bas through Texas soil, and lives...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 137–177.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Anne-Lise François Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 “Shadow Boxing”
Empty Blows, Practice Steps, and Nature’s Hold
anne- lise françois
Shadow Boxing
Obsessive prohibitions possess an extraordinary capacity for
displacement; they make use of almost any form...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 65–93.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Peter Skafish Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 The Descola Variations
The Ontological Geography of Beyond Nature and Culture
peter skafish
Much about Philippe Descola is exactly what you end up decid-
ing you might have expected from someone holding a chair at the
Collège de...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 17–54.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Hans Blumenberg Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 "IMITATION OF NATURE":
TOWARD A PREHISTORY OF THE IDEA OF THE
CREATIVE BEING
Hans Blumenberg
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For almost two thousand years, it seemed as if the conclusive and
final answer...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of natural history. As the novel culminates in images and concepts that are essentially nonhuman, inhuman, or posthuman in character, it demonstrates an exacting knowledge of what the present is only now beginning to realize: after two world wars and humanity’s recent entry into what is called the age...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the agents of microscopic biology with attention to their formal quality . Building on work analyzing the legacy of twentieth-century vitalism and holism outside philosophy of medicine and biology 7 and on work that analyzes nature as space or architecture, 8 I apply Canguilhem’s vitalist principles...
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“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
... programmatic statements about method, the notions that naturalism begins with “the first lines ever written by man” or with “the first thinking brain.” Il n’y a pas de hors-naturalisme? What does it mean, then, that the contingent and supplemental status of theory (which we should take broadly to include...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
... criticized Simon for the performative nature of his artificially intelligent systems, mainly for his positivism, but he defended his positivism based on his belief that symbolic computation could stand in for any reality and in fact shape that reality. Simon was not looking to actually re-create human...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Anna Wertz Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATIVE BEING:
INTRODUCING HANS BLUMENBERG
Anna Wertz
"The Imitation of Nature," first published in the interdiscipli-
nary journal Studium Generale in 1957, is arguably the most nu-
anced...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 5–21.
Published: 01 December 2011
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of global warming (or climate change as the more encompassing
term), overconsumption of limited natural resources, and the toxic
saturation of everything from industrialized food systems and chil-
dren’s toys to Hungarian villages. Increasingly spectacular pressure
points of environmental catastrophe...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 77–103.
Published: 01 June 2000
... they can coexist method-
ologically within the rhetorical project of Rorty's neopragmatism.
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The metaphorological foundation of neopragmatism is evident
very early on in Rorty's work. In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,
for instance, Rorty...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 275–297.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., a fertile dust. Unpredict-
able landscapes take shape in the sky.
Chance organizes the details, exploits all possible vectors for the
distribution of species. Everything is conducive to travel, from ma-
rine currents to shoe soles. Travel essentially belongs to animals.
Nature charters berry-eating...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., as
being unhealthy and abnormal, as in need of cure. Rosemarie Gar-
land Thomson writes, “Domesticated within the laboratory and
the textbook, what was once the prodigious monster, the fanciful
freak, the strange and subtle curiosity of nature, has become today
the abnormal...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 June 2000
... the situation of inadequate adapta-
BLUMENBERG'S OPENING MOVE 111
tion — concentrates and frames all the compensatory elements, like
linguistic gestures and techniques. What Blumenberg questions is
the opposition between human nature and institution...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Sebald creaturely life is most perspicuously presented in im-
ages of animals who have lost their natural place, lost the possi-
bility of living an animal life in becoming subject to the demands
of culture, subject to forces beyond their control—culture become
force. At the very beginning...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 December 2011
... feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”
The experience of nothingness comes neither from concepts nor
from grammatical negation in sentences.
Graham Harman...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 57–84.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the end is that you cannot go on. And there is
no view.
Roger Brucker and Richard Watson, The Longest Cave
Nature and technology are for most people mutually exclusive
realms. Many sympathize with Richard Louv’s judgment in Last
Child in the Woods that generations born since the 1970s...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 89–124.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the intimate connection between power
and knowledge with respect to products of the “non- living” natural
sciences and engineering. Although he has been criticized for un-
derstating colonialism’s importance for the growth of European
knowledge,7 Latour does provide new tools...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 87–115.
Published: 01 December 2011
... it, “ecocritics are not agreed on what constitutes
the basic principle in ecocriticism, whether it is bios, or nature or
environment or place or earth or land. Since there is no consensus,
there is no common defi nition.”2 Partly for that reason, even the
choice of basic rubric has been...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Betina González-Azcárate; Joshua Lund Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Mining the Tropics
Burton’s Brazil and the History of Empire
betina gonzález-azcárate and joshua lund
Anthropos and his works are to the land he holds, what life is to
the body; without them Nature lies...
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