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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 151–184.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is the last of Bowie’s “Ziggy
Stardust” albums—three in all, which feature Bowie in the guise
of an androgynous space-alien rock star along with a band called
The Spiders from Mars.1 The female model shown on the front al-
bum cover of Pin Ups is none other than Twiggy, the number...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 519–532.
Published: 01 December 2017
... rocks. Though it might just be one’s own fault: for, who ever heard of drinking brandy on the rocks. Where, dilution is precisely the call of the sirens; where the sirens call through the very melting itself. Which is the danger that Odysseus was aware of: for, it’s not the song that kills you...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 85–86.
Published: 01 December 2011
... wings.”
✶ ✶ ✶
Squirrel, stretching yourself out fl at
to cool your belly on a shaded rock.
On hot days do you wish your fur coat had a zipper?
✶ ✶ ✶
It merely looks bedraggled, that gangling garden
of rogue roses with stems untrimmed...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2001
... the convulsions accom-
panying the "terrible vertigo" he feels while attempting to write his
metaphysical novel. That effort is similarly characterized, in nauti-
cal terms, as a precariously constricted passage: His soul's ship
foresaw the inevitable rocks, but resolved to sail...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... by the aggressor, gunpowder of bullets shot through their forbears’ skulls, dirt tossed onto corpses, corpses emptied into pits. Beneath the surface of the face, in layers of subsoil and sediment, in bedrock and parent rock, a past that is otherwise indecipherable is preserved entire. Fig. 2. Alexi...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 279–281.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and The Castle, both published by Hachette in 2000.
judith a. peraino is professor of music at Cornell University. Her pub-
lications include articles on medieval secular songs and motets, the rock
artists PJ Harvey and Blondie, synthpop groups of the late 1970s and ear...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 107–142.
Published: 01 December 2001
....
Groupies pile out of rock. An accidental order is not chance.
—Ron Sil I i man (AT, 138)
A sequence of
obstacles blocks
the memory of facts. Voice of
The word it approximates.
The foundation
floats without opposing tides...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
... encumber our moons with ceremonies that lack fi re.
. . . Purify the breath until it reveals the harsh taste of the land:
bring breath to the death of rocks and landscape. (CD, 237)
Under the sun like bagasse, the fi brous remains of sugar cane
drained of their juices, left...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 233–239.
Published: 01 June 2011
... received little screening or training, were given
“Security” T-shirts, told they would get paid twenty dollars per
hour for working a rock concert, and were brought to the univer-
sity’s most volatile political confl ict in thirty years. In the ensu-
ing photos they appear lost...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., a power and majesty born of the size and
the abrupt grandeur of mountain peak, of precipice and rock,
which would strike the mind of Staffa, and which forbid any sus-
picion of effeminacy. Such effects of Nature, at once masculine
and womanly, alternately soft and stern, necessarily affect...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 157–181.
Published: 01 June 2014
... shatters forms: “A little further along the
shore we saw a man’s clothes on a rock; further, a woman’s scarf, a
gown, a straw bonnet, the brig’s caboose. . . . I was even more sur-
prised at the power of the waves, exhibited on this shattered frag-
ment. . . . I saw many marble feet...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 171–194.
Published: 01 June 2017
... these shits would go to hell. I know no one’s going to print them anyway. Except for Peter it’d be starvation. That summer, Patty Hearst sent out her seventh communiqué as Tania and Gordon joined a local rock band, Butch Whacks and the Glasspacks. Butch Whacks were in demand as openers for major bands...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 177–204.
Published: 01 December 2004
... performance. The narrator says that after he spits on the doll:
"The crowd turned on me indignantly I saw a short pot-bellied man look down,
then up at me with amazement and explode with laughter, pointing from me to the
doll, rocking" (433). This laughter...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... otherwise indicated, all translations are
my own.
15. On these cards, see Rupert Jones, “Punk Rock Brand: The Sex Pistols to
Feature on a Range of Credit Cards,” The Guardian, June 8, 2015, http
www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/09/punk-rock-brand-the-sex-pis-
tols-to-feature...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 June 2017
... , for the figures posed in each seem as immovable as the fundament that serves as their backdrop. Families imaged in/as stone: rock solid, unwavering, timeless. Their stability is staged through the material that frames them. Unmoving and unmovable, in this series of images it is stone on which they sit, stone...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 373–385.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., a parting gift—what topic has not felt his touch? Nancy has visited nearly every field imaginable, and glided from the rigors of fundamental ontology to the most common passing encounter of a gaze: “A dog gazes at me, a child, a tree, a rock, a work. In order to gain access to this verification, I have...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
... at demolishing the society of the spectacle.
Perhaps the most relevant precursor to Pussy Riot’s “Punk Rock
Prayer” is the intervention staged by several young Lettrist poets at
Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter Sunday in 1950. In the middle of
the service, Michel Mourre, dressed as a Dominican monk...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 December 2004
... already present within the very texture of things, inscribed
in the strata of rock or shell, and rising toward even more explicit
forms of manifestation. The second schema on the other hand
seizes the spirit at that point of arrest where the image becomes...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 35–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? wonders
whether, in a very distant future, an extraterrestrial intelligence could
detect on Earth geological traces of a now gone human presence.1
Why such an enthusiasm for refl ections concerning the disap-
pearance of humanity? Could these geo- philosophical...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 39–71.
Published: 01 December 2007
... contradictory — fear elicited
by threats to that unity. This lineage was arguably inaugurated by
Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal analysis of anti-Semitism as existential
bad faith, which manifests as a desire on the part of the anti-Semite
to be hard as a rock, that is, impenetrable...
