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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 51–86.
Published: 01 June 2021
... distributions. As a result, rather than a weapon in modernity’s endless self-justifying polemics with religion, immanence opens forth trajectories for its destitution and delegitimation. Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 immanence dispossession nothingness secularism subjection...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 423–490.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the key figures of the Rebirth, this essay shows how instances of absence were persistently elaborated, classified, and transformed into genealogies and historiographies; how nothingness was mined as a source of inspiration; and how nonalignment became a strategic choice. Copyright © 2018 Editorial...
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 147–173.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the subject,
so is the soul not experienced as something objectively, knowingly,
“there.” Both the movement of knowledge toward the divine and
the movement of knowledge toward the subject stumble upon the
“nothingness” that defines selfhood and divinity (it is neither here
nor...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with intimations of
nothingness. In the aftermath of Nietzsche, an inherent loss of faith
gives rise to new valuations, negative and affi rmative, of nihilism
and new fi gurations of belief. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry
vacillates between Pascalian tradition and Nietzschean aftermath.
I want to explore...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2001
... grave by an unmarked stone — an exact
reenactment of the phony dream "Madeleine" describes to him as
part of the possession hoax: "It's an open grave and I stand by the
gravestone looking down into it." In the dream, Scottie's gaze into
this site of negativity, or nothingness — a patch...
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 183–212.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... On the one hand,
it asserts that the ultimate truth of things, insofar as any such truth
exists, lies within a profoundly negative factuality: meaningless-
ness, suffering, nothingness, contingency, and so on. On the other
hand, it necessarily denies, under penalty of not being...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and destructive effects on worlds living under the “burdens of ‘nothingness.’” 15 Nothingness is an expectation that has historically been brought to bear on places at society’s margins—and the apparent nothingness of northern New York has a dichotomous and conflicting identity as both valuable natural...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., too, the editors of Qui Parle who provided such generous and attentive feedback on this discursive journey, as it were. So invaluable. 1. Wilchins, Read My Lips , 127 . 2. Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness,” 742 . 3. Wilchins, Read My Lips , 96 . 4. Green, “‘Race...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 215–248.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., by way of an exergue, as an example of this fantasmatic
occlusion, this famous paragraph in which the enjoyment of racist
fantasy is at stake:
The choice of the phobic object is . . . overdetermined. This ob-
ject does not come at random out of the void of nothingness...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 267–283.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-pessimist thought more broadly, see Day, “Being or Nothingness.” 8. Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property . References Bhandar Brenna . Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Brennan Timothy...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 233–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the person ( sw , 103), and Haraway’s general lowercase-c catholicity. 14. Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness,” 749. On the question of nonrelationality and immanence, see also Barber , “Nonrelation and Metarelation,” and, in this journal, “ World-Making and Grammatical Impasse .” 15...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 51–104.
Published: 01 December 2005
... not reveal their nothingness, but ours. It is we who are
skeletons, the ghosts of what is, with our ghostlier demarcations
("the frame). We can do nothing with the auroras, and we are
nothing unless we can ,do something with them. We are right to
fear. We are without solace...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... as he accompanies his mother and his daughter who must board the train that will lead them to the madhouse in a town far away. We know nothing about Soroco, nor do we know how the two women became mad. They emerge from nothingness before going back to nothingness. This seems to be the end of a story...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Yet this argument,
committed to a hard- eyed acknowledgment of the nothingness of
human things, repeats a sacrifi cial plot as it extracts meaning from
the void. Here are some of the book’s closing sentences:
62 qui parle spring/summer 2013 vol.21, no.2
[I]t is precisely...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of incapacitation, slow death, and nothingness. As
Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues, the prison no longer attempts to re-
deem the future of the captive.18 The prisoner’s future is restricted
to the endless dead time of the present. This politics of time is evi-
dent in the request for the photo...
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 85–96.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to render meaning-
lessness and death meaningful by a sleight-of-hand, no theology of
Nothingness, no replacement of the philosophy of history through
a historicization of Being, in which the victims do not appear and
the hangmen hide themselves — none of this would be compatible
with the clear...
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 17–54.
Published: 01 June 2000
... nothingness precisely because he throws out
everything that makes the world the world by invoking "the cre-
ation before the creation." Here comes the further, astonishing for-
mulation that "through their art and by means of imitation" poets
"produce things...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90.
Published: 01 December 2003
...)
As the camera pans slowly from right to left, the scene dissolves
into memory, into what the Patient's voice describes as "a nothing
place," in the "middle of nowhere," full of "nothing people." A bar,
a bartender, his wife. Nothingness, void, vacuum, that, it seems,
licenses the child's game...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 December 2011
...: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot 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...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 223–236.
Published: 01 June 2024
... naming of these victims harks back to Rankine’s famous act of inscribing the names of Black people killed in hate crimes in Citizen , 35–36 . As Rankine’s list of victims continues, each name becomes distinctly lighter before the list ultimately fades into nothingness, mimicking the blank space also...
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