... mysticism, anthropological critiques of the secular, work in Black studies, critiques of the subject, and François Laruelle’s non-philosophical thought. The result links immanence more intimately with dispossession than with the subject’s self-possession—and entwines it with the undercommons, as the atopic...

... refers to the relation- ship between the citizen and the sovereign power that governs the state: "a person owing allegiance to and entitled to the protection of a sovereign state These three, definitions implicitly distinguish the citizen from his other, the non-citizen, who, in turn, plays...

... merely disagreed on the issue of the morality of the Constitution's pro-slavery char- acter. Disagreement over the correct interpretation of the Constitution occurred, ironically, within the abolitionist move- ment. Non-Garrisonian abolitionists believed that according to strict rules of legal...

... by and further reinforce racial thinking and racism. An equally important area of research focuses on the ways in which non-Western ways of knowing are themselves racialized and othered and thereby denied the status of “science.” In reflecting on the connections between race and science, it is paramount that we...

... eld of vision and what can be said in any given place and time are subject to diff erent rules. Deleuze goes on to evolve and contradict the apparent fi nality of this non- link: “But there is a continual relinking [perpétuel ré- enchaînement], which takes place over the irrational break...

... movement between political util- ity and uselessness, intellectual and sensorial pleasures, grief and joy, sex and death, meaning and non-meaning. Zero Patience uses the incoherence of the musical as a tool to create a text that is radically open and affi liated with opposing ideas, functioning...

... 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...

... to be given as uncreated, as non-produced, non-constituted, given as hu- man substance, an a priori or a requisite of every possible experi- ence; as the already- Given that precedes the very emergence of the work of art and that alone can communicate to it this otherwise inexplicable aspect...

... it, the background field of color advances the powers of chaos against the figure, the non-human, non-organic forces, the non-organic life of things that come to lash out at the figure. Within the field's interior, the figure seeks to escape itself, to disorganize itself, to empty itself through its head so...

... of darkness that subtends cinema” (ect, 185), Duras here extrapolates from this theft to confi scate the present moment itself, protectively secreted in an invisible fold of non- action. And once again: this gets us nowhere. Happily, this gets us nowhere. These fi lms, especially...

... actually can be interpreted in two ways, either as a protection against snooping or a protection against disruption. The possibility of non-intrusive computer surveillance forces legal and political theory to become clear about what, exact- ly, the amendment is designed...

... of this insight are stark: Hegel’s thought is not humanistic or anthropocentric, but pushes to the realm of the non- individuated and non- human— and perhaps even inhuman. Extending Pahl’s explicit statements a bit, one could say that emotion, thought, and life cannot be ascribed...

..." to the accomplishments of the painter and the sculptor: After all, they get their exemplaria a rebus — non tamen ego— "but not I!" It IMITATION OF NATURE 21 is of immeasurable significance that here the entire pathos of cre- ative, originary human...

... is somewhat theistic, while 164 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 the cool fl avor is somewhat nihilistic. The regular fl avor estab- lishes Nature as an object of reverent admiration; the cool fl avor asserts the deep mystery of a Non-Nature. I’ve argued elsewhere...

... to do violence to another human being. This seems to me to be a Qui Palle, Vol. 14, No. 1 Fall/VVinter 2003 100 JILL STAUFFER very important philosophical question. In my own view, I've become more and more interested in the problem of non-violence lately...

... determination to shed old burdens and outgrow old forms?2 Bersani off ers answers to these questions throughout Thoughts and Things, but his answers retain the aspirational quality of the strik- ing non sequitur that I have just quoted: “it is a fortress that might simply be deserted.” Tellingly...

... question of how poetry is possible. This answer— that poetizing occurs through ecstasy— is no answer, a non- answer. The answer that Socrates provides to the question of the possibility of art is that the question cannot be answered. Art is, according to Socrates, impossible— and its actuality...

... properly cos- mic, any ultimate signifi cance to this truth, consigning the knowing of it to the abyss of an unmasterable exteriority. The cosmic pessi- mist’s thought hovers, like a lost astronaut, inside a non- locatable intersection between absolute and absolutely hopeless...

... are conceptualized by categories that resist translation to European languages and elude the imperialist impulse of the Greco-Abrahamic conceptual apparatuses seeking to reduce the totality of the world to its own concepts, expropriating terms and categories from non-Western...

...: I really didn t feel like writing you today, again . . . There are many, many reservations and questions folks have of nonbinary (non)gender (non)identity. (Not least because of weird lexical constructions like [non]gender and [non]identity Like nonbinariness skews masculine since femme gender...