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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 December 2017
... through a look at three scenes from Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu in which the event of someone talking to themselves is represented and then analyzed, notably to reveal that it is not so easy to assume that the speech authored within any single mind-space is owned by the person associated...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Kathleen Biddick Abstract Centered on the opening scene of reading staged by Giorgio Agamben in his study of reading machines, The Open: Man and Animal , this article considers how Agamben’s own messianic reading of an illuminated page from a medieval Ashkenazi Bible (Biblioteca Ambrosiana MSS B 30...
FIGURES
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
....” It elaborates the philosophical and anthropological implications of a rigorous notion of form of life through Asad’s concept of tradition and Martin Heidegger’s rereading of Aristotle’s physis . Interrupting this theoretical argument, a scene from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with Orthodox Christian...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Marxism that, concomitant with major shifts in global capitalism, set the scene for subsequent scholarly accounts of culture that have privileged the fragment, the supplement, the remainder, the site, the margins, and the like over against the totality. The second part consists of an analysis of two works...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and propaganda films, newsreels, and features.” 1 Workers Leaving the Factory is fundamentally a critical attempt to understand the historical continuity and coherence of that eponymous scene given the many different uses to which it has been put and the many masters it has served. For Farocki, whether...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 June 2010
... something, or maybe I witness
it. On the other side of the wall the scene unfolds in private: an
adult, perhaps a father or a mother, and a child, a boy or a girl.
On this side of the wall, another private scene—a debate I hold
with myself. What am I hearing? (I must fi rst be able to interpret...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 June 2013
....
The ideal of speech in action. Fiction depends on another order,
another scene of speech that provides it with its norm. Poetic
O’Rourke: For the Love of Democracy 227
fi ction depends on the scene of oratory and the ideal of “effi ca-
cious speech” embodied...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and VanGundy: Zombie Porn 1.0 103
pornographic scenes form part of a larger, highly aestheticized nar-
rative framework, often with multiple interweaving stories.7 His
fi lms, and the fi lms within them, are often structured diegetically
and extradiegetically as “exploitation.” We are indebted to La...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90.
Published: 01 December 2003
... in liberal sympathy for blacks. This essay
is concerned with the drama or scene of this blind vision (which I
call neither-either) as it appears, contentiously, in Pressure Point's
substitution of black for Jew. I use the term "neither-either" because
in this odd, deforming vision, what is visualized...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 189–210.
Published: 01 June 2019
... is present, the present that includes her in the form of an exclusion, an absence, a subject position too unbearable to inhabit. Section 2 consists of two chapters in which Pandolfo reflects on two scenes of movement: the figural passage and the political passage. The first is a vacillating movement...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 373–385.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and thought along the openings of the world, to brush thinking against the innumerable advents of singularity that constitute a shared scene of plurality. But he never stopped reminding us that every advent is a passage whose very condition of possibility is its leaving again, its never having not been...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 203–234.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is an unusual opera, a one-of-a-kind experiment by its
creators.10 The half-hour composition is divided into twelve scenes,
each self-contained and characterized by a different rhythmic ges-
tus. Its simplicity is deceptive. It is not what we would expect of
opera, nor is it an anti-opera: it is situated...
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 June 2015
... on Descartes, Freud, and Proust), Bersani is drawn back
repeatedly to the structures and scenes that he calls on readers to
desert, as though he had to return to them in order to learn to leave.
In this sense, the essays in Thoughts and Things continue Bersani’s
decades- long eff ort to deglamorize...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 45–74.
Published: 01 December 2016
... international attention, Breillat reprised the scene from
her directorial début. The young protagonist of that fi lm, Marie, sits
in her room and angles a mirror up from her sex organs to her face.
As in the earlier fi lm, the two regions of the body are kept visually dis-
tinct...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 December 2009
... no rehearsal. For
Heidegger too, play is essential—think of the play of the fourfold,
which is part of my topic here. In psychoanalysis play has several
obvious resonances. Melanie Klein invented play therapy for chil-
dren. Donald Winnicott is the great theoretician of play. The fort/
da scene...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
... absolute alterity inadvertently reproduces
the scene of violence that it seeks to “correct.” The paradox of the
tout autre thus marks a certain distance between Levinasian and
Derridean ethics. For the latter makes no claim to ethical purity: a
relation to alterity that is devoid...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 157–197.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the story, where they will talk of Isis, Thetis—Achilles’s mother—and, above all, hieroglyphs and reading. The air of familiarity in both H.D.’s staging and Duncan’s recasting derives from the participation of this scene in the myth of myth telling itself. As Jean-Luc Nancy has made plain, the very...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
of their daring colors and bold brush strokes but also from their
markedly temporal character. Monet recorded his experience of the
cathedral facade as it changed over the course of a day, inviting us
to compare a morning scene with an evening one. But even with
a single canvas, we already...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in their passing away?
For only upon his death could the enemy be seen.
The photographic spectacle of the war scenes advertised by
the metropolitan newspaper was to take place almost four months
from the day when the Republic claimed victory over Canudos. The
spectacle would present "scenes from...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and
Mathieu Bénézet. The year before, in 1976, Hocquard had pub-
lished a text by Lacoue- Labarthe— it was “L’émoi” (“Emotion
Lacoue- Labarthe’s initial response to a page by Maurice Blanchot
called “Une scène primitive” which goes like this:
You who live later, close to a heart that beats no more...
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