...Judith A. Peraino Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Plumbing the Surface of Sound and Vision David Bowie, Andy Warhol, and the Art of Posing judith a. peraino Two fi gures posed in the foreground, wearing nearly identical makeup—lipstick, eyeliner, base, rouge, and a thin...

...Michael Lucey This article uses the writings of Erving Goffman, M. M. Bakhtin, and Edward Sapir to pose some questions about what is happening when spoken language is produced. In particular, it looks at certain complexities of the partial roles of “animator,” “author,” and “principal,” into which...

... the central question posed by “form of life” by making the latter a world-producing apparatus. That approach to form of life foregrounds the possibility of being other than what one is, rather than the crucial question of “still experience” and its dynamic repose. The article concludes by reading this still...

... technolo- gies of representation. To demonstrate that speed and distraction don’t simply pose contemporary challenges, I will return to the nineteenth century, which was similarly vulnerable to distraction and hungry for faster ways to record the fl eeting present. In re- sponse...

... directly on the camera, their poses project poise, propriety, respectability. Hair parted right, waves combed into docile billows left, sailor suits with short pants and stockinged legs mirror and reflect each other to the left and center. A tiny suit without a tie, a glimpse of a handkerchief winks from...

... dire?” (I will be asked: what do you mean by this?). This reminds me of my own questions, posed to him in Strasbourg in 2003, and of my rather misguided desire for clear and unequivocal answers. Nancy’s response to this preemptive question is revealing: “Je voudrais seulement laisser se dire ce qui se...

... that is, ex- pose a wider distribution of agency and reshape the self and its inter- ests.”5 Crucial to Bennett’s ethical framework is the redistribution of agency and selfh ood so that both cut across the ontological boundar- ies of human/nonhuman, uniting actants in a fi eld of mutual materi- ality...

...- Strauss’s posing of the mythic dimensions of reason in response to efforts to rationalize mythic life.17 To all this I should like to add the signifi cance of Fanon’s contribution. Fanon, after all, made the colonial aspirations of such a conception of rationality, of expand- ing...

... . . can no longer be undertaken solely through or in respect to those European traditions of knowledge that rarely manifestly op- posed the colonial domination at the source of this situation, or else, as happened for most of the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies, showed to those crushed...

... enables us to avoid the paradoxes that accompany discourses on the Other that inevitably invoke refer- ence points constitutive of difference. If the concept of Otherness always poses the question "to what the space of elsewheres remains neutral, if not empty...

...—by performers, composers, and audiences at every stage of musical 18 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 production. Furthermore, for musicians this problem of incom- mensurability did not pose a fatal problem nor necessitate foreclo- sure; instead, it formed a core part...

... became clear about this in my reading of François Laruelle. (Even if there are places where I diverge, you know we all verge in other directions, I am not at core Laruellian at all, but I think that the question he poses is important.) The question he allows me is “How do you really account...

... world and this peculiar moment Qui Park, Vol. 13, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2003 138 HUEY COPELAND are made legible according to photographic convention. More than the distraction of one woman's pose, or the odd quadrature of missed and averted gazes, it is how...

... Blue Wax in mind? At the core of his project, Meillassoux poses what might be regarded as the decisive question for any rationalist empiricism: “how is empirical knowledge of a world anterior to all experi- ence possible?” (AF, 123). How, through manifest evidence, can we think the objectivity...

... are now fi nding it hard to withstand the tough challenges posed by a global culture that derides profundity, vision, and fi ner aes- thetic sensibilities. The academic inputs in these institutions tend to be predictable, cold, and intellectually frozen, while the practi- cal training sessions...

...- ism is invoked at all in political debates, it is never used as a self- description but always refers to others, and as such it is usually intended to stigmatize them as egotistic market fundamentalists.2 That the term is easily instrumentalized for purely polemical pur- poses is in part due...

... and future are we to look in search of justice. The way the dilemmas of the lesser evil are posed in the humanitarian present tends to limit the parameters and circumscribe the question to the immediate present— it creates an extended present without a conception of history...

... its course and legacy from the detached pose of academic history, Miéville’s contribution is unique not only in its leftism but also in its rendering of events in Russia from February to October 1917 as an avowedly literary narrative. The end result is an engaging, beautifully written, thoughtful...

... at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. Her book in progress, The Acoustics of Narrative In- volvement, poses a theory of literary sound studies, examining the relationship between sound, narrative, and the body in the works of Conrad and Faulkner...

...- companying essays give us a glimpse into the many ways that Blumenberg continued to pose this question and to exhume the metaphors that have served as an answer. ...