...Samuel Moyn Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING: HANS BLUMENBERG, GIAMBATTISTA VICO, AND THE PROBLEM OF ORIGINS' Samuel Moyn "To speak of beginnings is always to be suspected of a mania for returning to origins," the contemporary German philosopher...

... called knowledge.” 14 Curiously, the idea that knowledge is distributed across a system and not possessed by any single component in its totality is not an original one by Hayek but is derived from the nonlocalization theory of brain functions of Monakow, with whom, as mentioned above, Hayek worked...

... of this technical supplement that functions as the prosthetic by which man overcomes a hereditary deficiency, his original psychosis in Zola’s account, and is also the means by which he allegorizes history as progress. But this supplement must also disappear from view, or operate as a vanishing mediator. Because...

... of the black eunuch slave in medieval Persian history. The difficulty of the historicity of race produces and involves crises of origins that manifest in traumatic encounters with trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slavery that explode the scalar coherence made possible by established narratives of racial...

... prevalent claim in black horror studies today—that black life is more frightening than the supernatural—actually originates with Baldwin’s 1976 rebuke of the film. By disidentifying with horror, Baldwin shifts attention away from paranormal evils and onto a more horrifying normative world. Sketching...

...Liron Mor Abstract This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿ im ha-panim elenu ( The One Facing Us , 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from...

... history of being, on the ends of philosophy that we must reckon with, on origins and archaeophilia , on the an-archique essence of philosophy and democracy—and this means for us, on another sense of commencement than arche , which could allow us to prepare another beginning of philosophy than...

..., independent of its appearance. Indeed, this is precisely what copyright jurisprudence, which emphasizes originality, tries to do. However, absent the 24 GORDON HULL baseline of visual intelligibility, there is no criterion for knowing which object legitimately embodies its eidos...

... age. Central to Blumenberg's project was understanding how these various fields of human inquiry diverged for example, the emancipa- tion of philosophy from theology in the Middle Age, the splintering off of the physical sciences from their philosophical origins in the modern age...

..., diagrams, commentaries, and excursuses. In the original German preface, they state that their main interest is in 216 qui parle spring/summer 2015 vol. 23, no. 2 the category of Zusammenhang, a rich word they use to describe instances of connection, correlation, juxtaposition...

... he asserts is that “the growth of religions [das Wachstum der Religionen] rip- ens the hidden seed into a higher development of language.”5 This spiritual and botanical growth (“a transformation and a renewal of something living—the original undergoes a change”) affects a seed that itself fi...

... phonemic spectrum where the phrase “I lack” is clearly audible. The word lilac is also the locus of a specifi c form of intertextual haunting. Among the mythological accounts of the origins of the poetry of mourning is the story of Hyacinth and Phoebus who, after accidentally...

.... Lingis: The Outsiders 201 The Original Authenticity The discovery of art in insane asylums in Europe had then a quite different effect from the earlier discovery of art in China and Japan or among the Maya of Central America. What was recognized as art in those far-off lands was, like earlier...

... Archive/Getty Images. 152 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 David Bowie’s 1973 album Pin Ups consists entirely of covers— his versions of songs originally recorded by other British bands between 1964 and 1967. Pin Ups...

... nition nor even a particular content. Essence, rather, is the paradigm en- abling us to understand what politics is in its originary character. Not coincidentally, his other point of reference is the term origin. After having identifi ed confl ict as the constitutive element of poli- tics, he...

..., of the before and after of living temporality. Not the order of time, but the original temporality of a disjointed eventfulness (time as “out-of-joint”). 6 There lies the noncoincidence of the event with itself: it cannot coincide with itself because, always ahead of itself in its arrival, excessive...

... be variously composed, but for Said they could all be characterized as “religious” insofar as they made appeals to suprahistorical, more-than-human, generative, and authorizing powers, assertive of the essential forms and fixed origins of human institutions and ideas ( W , 11, 290). To engage critically...

... monde, originally published in 2002 by Nil Éditions of Paris. Introduction Plants travel. Especially grasses. They move about as quietly as the wind. We can’t do much about the wind. Were we to harvest clouds, we would be astonished to fi nd a weightless seed mixed in with the loess...

... of Personae , reliant on a poetics founded on speaking the voices of others 7 —valorizes those very aspects that had brought Pound criticism from so many other quarters, not least Wyndham Lewis, as Duncan implies that Pound’s very subjective porosity rather than originality or mastery is the core of his...

... from rural and folk Japan. Many note a turn in Hijikata's work from more explicit references to literature up to the time of Amma [The Masseuse] (1965) to an exploration of returns and origins in his later works. In order to understand Hijikata's relation to the work...