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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 103–108.
Published: 01 December 2009
... not only to the damage
suffered by the city in which she lived but also to the collateral
disfigurement of its aesthetic tradition, her works are themselves,
in her words, “ruins,” “piles of forms.” On the cover of this issue
appears an image of Iraq, New Map/US Map, in which Malallah...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 587–589.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Didi-Huberman Georges . The Man Who Walked in Color , translated by Burk Drew S. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Edmondson George , and Mladek Klaus , eds. Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., for piles of wreckage are still
history, even if an impossible history. Where are the bodies of the
296 qui parle spring/summer 2010 vol.18, no.2
Middle Passage—the memorial sites of loss, however ruined—in
that wreckage? These bodies are not mere fi gures; they are the very...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
....
But there is loss, and there is the acknowledgment of loss; there is
the connection between the life lived now, the ruin of the present,
and endless other losses, the ruins of the past. How possibly can
that connection be registered? How is it possible to have a litera-
ture that is about sustaining loss...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 63–123.
Published: 01 June 2008
... on the foot of
the Rock: “Not the remains of the Romans. Not that kind of ruins,
where the soul of the multitudes has only time to waste away, en-
graving their farewell in the rock, but the ruins watermarked from all
time, the ruins steeped in the blood of our veins, the ruins we carry...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... History Museum there is no such thing as fugitive happiness and no hope for time recaptured. Indeed, what the Recherche goes out in search of will be neither remembered nor regained—except in the form of a ruin that is both inevitable and already accomplished. “I was like a surgeon who beneath...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 423–490.
Published: 01 December 2017
... life as Soviet, until it became Hauptstraße again in 1941, during another German occupation. World War II almost ruined the street, and following the liberation of Minsk in the summer of 1944, it went through several years of reconstruction as Soviet. Rebuilt and beautified, it became a perfect example...
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 177–201.
Published: 01 June 2000
... notice; it is that this failure seems somehow more terrible than
any terrorist act might ever prove. Both the blackout and the time
bomb become signs of a ruined revolutionary act, analogous to the
deforming after-images that congeal around all traumatic intrusions.
Just as de Man insists...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 157–197.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” Out of whatever real ruin that threatened, Pound and Eliot had agreed finally upon the monumental artifice of a ruin, a ruin with an outline. “Complimenti, you bitch,” Pound writes Eliot. ( hd , 225) Thus, even The Waste Land , for Duncan, becomes...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Rickover, the man who de-
veloped the fi rst American atomic submarine, and the remains of
a bombed city with the caption, “‘Knowledge is food.’ A dining
room in the ruins of 1945” (ho, 169). A few pages later there is
a photograph of two “fathers of the atomic bomb,” Albert Ein...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 339–344.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the identity functions . In Nancy’s words, “Identities are never purely stable, nor simply plastic. They are always metastable.” 4 The expenditure required to present these systems of identities as stable is the politics and the ruins of identities. We have already entered the terrain of logic from...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of Orthodox Christian monastic communities. They come to long-abandoned sites, ruins like those at Bkeftine in North Lebanon, and dedicate those sites to another kind of ruin—in this case, ruqād wālidat al-ilāh (the repose of the Mother of God). Like the Mother of God’s death, the ruination of the monastery...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and intelligible description . . . of this ruined world of prestige of which all we have left is nostalgia ,” Hegel allows us to see how the morality governing Hemingway’s fiction is that of the “disappeared master,” oblivious or contemptuous of work. 68 In the ruins of prestige that define the present...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 205–212.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Harrison
says to him "conditions are desperate. What we do have is a cul-
ture of ruins and fragments," Greenberg's one word reply — that's
"journalism" — is devastating, albeit disingenuous. At his worst,
Greenberg comes across as a prig: "You think too much. There's too
much thinking going...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 169–177.
Published: 01 December 2013
... contemplating the ruins of the violent past.
In other chapters, Moon similarly situates Darger’s idiosyncra-
sies within their historical and cultural context, arriving unsurpris-
ingly at the conclusion that those elements may not be specifi c to
Darger at all. He walks us through the history...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 June 2011
...; once it is taken as an end, it ruins invention;
and if it becomes equated with social normativity, it must be avoid-
ed at all costs. Experimenting in and with the humanities is one
answer to multiple crises, as well as the assurance of a complicated
future. It is far from given: it is merely...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with a trope
more audacious than anything one fi nds in Pascal:
Loathed for a love men knew in them,
Banned by the land of their birth,
Rhine refused them, Thames would ruin them;
Surf, snow, river and earth
Gnashed: but thou art above, thou Orion of light;
6 qui parle spring...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... phenomenon
whatever comprises— juxtaposed to others and overdetermined by
them— what is nothing more than an ethical effect or aspect along-
side others. The result is a tendency that ties in two others at each
of its points. On one side, the continuous and certain ruin of ethi...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to ruin, that’s the only politics.”14
This oddly combative lassitude thus off ers a kind of anti- politics, or
what, by analogy with Bataille’s atheology, we might perhaps call an
apolitics: not so much against politics, but more the form of its implo-
sion. Picking up the split...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., from the ashes of ruins.
Photography could therefore be, as Walter Benjamin obses-
sively insisted upon, the allegory of modernity or, rather, an alle-
gory for the experience of modernity. Benjamin believed that one
must write history as if one were writing...
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