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Considering the Desire to Mark Our Buried Nuclear Waste: Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Andrew Moisey Considering the Desire to Mark
Our Buried Nuclear Waste
Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
andrew moisey
I am now in this place where you should never come. We call
it Onkalo. Onkalo means “hiding place.” In my time it is still
unfi nished...
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Green Shade: Loser Vegetables in Plant Theory
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 161–170.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Katie Kadue A review of Nealon Jeffrey T. , Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as pt . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 REVIEW ESSAYS
Green Shade
Loser Vegetables in Plant Theory
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Queer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 137–166.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Katrin Pahl Abstract At the intersection of two fields of inquiry that are highly imaginative and seek real change—the study of human-plant relations and the even less charted study of queer procreation—this article explores queer ways of procreating that humans may learn from plants. In particular...
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Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils: Memory and Materiality in Georges Didi-Huberman’s Transvaluation of Surface
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 249–291.
Published: 01 December 2021
...-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay...
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In Praise of Vagabonds
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 275–297.
Published: 01 December 2011
... 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...
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Gardens of Resistance: Gilles Clément, New Poetics, and Future Landscapes: Translator's Introduction to Gilles Clément
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 259–274.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Jonathan Skinner Gardens of Resistance
Gilles Clément, New Poetics, and Future Landscapes
Translator’s Introduction to Gilles Clément
jonathan skinner
According to the authors of a text on “Wild Plants in the City,”
published by the Arnold Arboretum, “The curious gardens of wild...
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Beasts of Burden: Disability Studies and Animal Rights
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of this is to say that abilities and variations in abilities do
not matter. Clearly, there are important differences between the
abilities of a conscious human being and someone who is brain-
dead. Clearly, there are differences between the abilities of a squir-
rel and the abilities of a lettuce plant. To me...
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Following Generation
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2012
... be explained by
the peculiar way the autumn crocus has of being a kind of veg-
etal time bomb. We are in fact dealing here with a peculiar plant
whose fl owers appear before its leaves and whose leaves appear
before its seeds: “the fl owers of the colchicum appear in autumn,
several months before...
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Erratum
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 289.
Published: 01 June 2012
... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Erratum
In Andrew Moisey’s article “Considering the Desire to Mark Our Bur-
ied Nuclear Waste: Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,”
published in Qui Parle 20.2, the fi rst full paragraph on p. 120, which
continues onto p. 121...
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To FM2030
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of astronomers scanning galaxies in search of intelligent life. It was the position of those “working on phytotrons and nuclear food plants which can provide endless quantities of food” and of “bioengineers striving to conquer death.” 9 In life, we both asked questions about modernity. We wondered about...
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Introduction: Eco/Critical Entanglements
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 5–21.
Published: 01 December 2011
... has gained momentum and legislative
traction through its ability to communicate the plight of plant and
animal species on a more immediately human scale.1 In the past
decade, concern for the planet’s environmental future has moved
into mainstream consciousness most markedly through the issues...
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All Too Human: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 17–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-
pass us, allowing for the formation of plant lives but also living human
cells whose potential becomings seem beyond our control. So, it seems
to be one thing to accept that the human is not a closed entity but
entwined in forces of becoming, part of intensities that unite us...
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The Colors of Ideas
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 127–138.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Claudio Magris Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 The Colors of Ideas
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Translated by Matt Langione
In Palermo, Goethe discovers— or thinks he discovers—the Urp-
fl anze, the “archetypal plant”; its model and structure, that of the
primary cell of plant diversity...
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Sophisticated Ways in the Destruction of an Ancient City
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 103–108.
Published: 01 December 2009
... is a daftar Malallah produced in London
(where she moved from Baghdad in 2005) in the aftermath of the
American invasion. The piece is a ruin of an old Arabic manuscript
on plants, a manuscript that has been cut up and reassembled into
pages, not according to the logic of its text...
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From Warblers
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 117–120.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and post-
fl edgling cares
head switches and grappling
in the air
snapping the bill
white on dark outers
yellow as yellow fl owers
held in place with
fi ne grasses, soft inner
bark, plant-down &
animal hair wrapped
in spider’s web
an open cup woven of
leaf skeleton coats...
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Proust’s Natural History Museum
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., nature blooms and grows, providing the onlooker opportunity for measuring a wasted city against its accumulated past. “You could tell the date of a building’s destruction from the plants growing among the ruins,” a resident recalls: the more rare the greenery, the more recent the devastation. 5...
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Bergson in the Colony: Intuition and Duration in the Thought of Senghor and Iqbal
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 June 2008
... poet Jalal ud-Dîn Rumi, who perfectly
captured the evolutionary perspective of the Qur’an in the follow-
ing lines from his celebrated Mathnawi:
First man appeared in the class of inorganic things
Next he passed therefrom into that of plants.
For years he lived as one of the plants...
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Qualia
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., trustees of the reason planted in the
nature of things. Stoicism kept intact its power of protest and its
virtue as norm. Reactualized by Rousseau and a few others, it held
a promise of civilization that Montaigne and Mauss had certified.
This first voyage concludes...
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Political Environments
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 299–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., plants, earth, even ar-
tifacts and commodities—more carefully, more strategically, more
ecologically” (VM, 18).
Drawing on the vitality of things, Bennett then turns to ques-
tions of agency. While affective bodily responses are the starting
point for her theory, she...
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The Para-Worlds of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and bright and skilled.” 61 Raffia, a plant native to sub-Saharan Africa, is widely used around the world to make rope, baskets, placemats, hats, shoes, and textiles. Raffia contains resin, which makes it more pliable than straw. While raffia has been used by Indigenous people across Africa to make...
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