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...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...

...Jill Stauffer Copyright © 2003 Qui Parle 2003 PEACE IS RESISTANCE TO THE TERRIBLE SATISFACTIONS OF'WAR: AN INTERVIEW WITH JUDITH BUTLER Jill Stauffer Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other. — Emmanuel...

...Gary Kafer Abstract As programs of internet surveillance have increasingly pervaded our contemporary social and political lives, resistance has become necessary for those seeking to evade online data tracking. This article interrogates such resistance through an examination of Trevor Paglen...

..., this essay resists the total absorption of enslaved Black women’s suicidal thoughts and actions into the collective political motivations of the living, even as it resists their banishment. Rather than speak authoritatively about an action ultimately undertaken alone, the essay feels for the ordinary edges...

...Christopher Fynsk This essay addresses Jacques Rancière’s attempt to critique notions of resistance invoked by Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze. It focuses in particular on Rancière’s efforts to contain Deleuze within a shallow account of the aesthetic tradition of the past two centuries...

..., not in a messianic mode but in the temporal mode of biopolitical bare life? What is the temporal structure of precarious life? Furthermore, how does this Ashkenazi figural tradition of animal-headed Jews point to forms of resistance to the biopolitics of medieval Christendom? How is messianic theory now...

...Kevin Inston Abstract This article stages a dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy’s postphenomenology and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology to examine the conditions, ethos, and politics of world creation as well as the habits, obstacles, and inequalities that resist it. It argues that Nancy’s...

... fight between labor and capital. Rather than envisioning this totality of struggle as a merely thematic concern, Sekula’s compositions eschew commodification on the level of form by delving into the constitutive tensions of realism and reintroducing a living context of militancy and resistance...

..., the essay surveys the growing corpus of scholarship on the Anthropocene, and, in particular, of quarantine writing, to examine the viral nature of first-person accounts of the ecocatastrophic, revealing a perpetual subjunctivity resistant to the ontological prioritization of the actual over the virtual...

... the immense friction that emerges from the standardization of oppressive orders, but at “every node of relation,” he writes, “we will find callouses of resistance.” 2 As many of the essays in this issue display, it is precisely from this violent standardization that a rebellious consciousness emerges...

... shape a field that resists the transformation of the paranormal into a symbolic register, turning instead to events and phenomena that defy the assumptive principles of common sense or reasoning. In some traditions, the spirit world has long been connected to political resistance: of the Haitian...

... suggestionne (the hypnotized person) were an automaton: "Sleep!" "Wake up!" "Hallucinate!" "Become anesthetic!" "Be Qui Parle, Vol. 16, No.1 Summer 2006 48 MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN cured!" "Forget!" "Remember!" Incapable of resisting, le sugges- tionne obeys blindly, without...

... Duke University Press, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven , is a historical monograph concerning English, French, and US imperialism and resistance in late Qing China and late Edo and early Meiji Japan (roughly 1800–1920). The book builds on and significantly extends the focus of Driscoll’s previous...

... of resistance) — Newton, Principia (1687), def. 3. Mass times acceleration is the formula defining force and is by implication associated with the law of inertia as defined by Newton's third definition. More than merely staking out an epoch in the history...

... . 30. Bacal, “Sharon Lockhart and Steve McQueen,” 12 . For the concept of “carnal cinema,” see Sobchack, “What My Fingers Knew.” 31. For competing accounts of the individual/collective dynamic of the prisoners’ resistance in Hunger , see Lynch, “ Hunger ” ; and Gooch, “Militants...

... might be enacted ( AFN , 14). The first two sections, simply titled “Abolition” and “Feminism,” identify a range of primarily US-based historical antecedents for prison abolitionist and feminist thought. These include the founding of Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color against Violence...

... butterfl ies are for a day full of sunshine. That is to say the trace of a desire that fl ies, that goes where it will, that insists, that persists, that resists in spite of everything. There is a double meaning of the word tract. It means, on the one hand, a “short treatise”: a literary genre...

... Board, Qui Parle 2018 intellectuals nationalism decolonization postcommunism It has been said that Imperialism’s major export was identity, a phenomenon unknown previously to most colonized societies but forged in the heat of political resistance. However arguable that might be, the most...

... infrastructure as contiguous to and in solidarity with a transnational circuit of anti-imperial and left resistance that participated in the world revolution with Germany, China, and Russia. Revolution was to be a shared practice, a chorus of action whose various verses would evoke a mythopolitics that ranged...

... by the teletechnological media for what it is, may lead either to a disenchanted resistance to critical analysis alto- gether or to a denial of the realities and consequences of "Opera- tion Enduring Freedom" as though they were spectacular but eph- emeral manifestations of mere media simulacra. An extreme...