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Race and Science in Global Histories
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 405–417.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Board, Qui Parle 2019 This book review examines how historians of science have defined knowledge production, as well as its protagonists and settings, in ways that both reject and reproduce the racialization of bodies and cultures in the early modern Caribbean. Recent scholarship in the history...
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Wheel and axle ( eschooltoday.com/science/simple-machines/what-is-a-wheel-a...
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Fig. 2. Wheel and axle ( eschooltoday.com/science/simple-machines/what-is-a-wheel-and-axle.html )
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Being Ocean as Praxis: Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 335–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that come from a “natural” response to our “natural” circumstance. Wynter calls the species we are a part of (or excluded from, as the case may be) Homo narrans , meaning that we tell ourselves a story about being purely biological, governed by science, and then we believe that we are going...
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The Pathos of Finitude: Ordinariness, Solitude, and Individuality in Nonphilosophy
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 159–193.
Published: 01 June 2024
... qualities, defined by absolute finitude. Laruelle claims to articulate a rigorous science of man, capable of thinking human individuals in their essence, outside the philosophical interpellation to which they are usually submitted. This science intends to finally break apart the post-Kantian empirico...
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Strategic Masochism: Affective Costs of Semiperipheral Legibility in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Katja Perat Abstract This essay examines how Stanisław Lem mobilizes the genre of science fiction to portray regional Central European concerns as structural conditions of semiperiphery. The essay centers on Lem’s interest in illegibility, which defines him as a novelist and a critic, showing how...
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Before Truth: Walter Benjamin’s “Epistemo-Critical Prologue”
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 19–60.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Kristina Mendicino Walter Benjamin’s distinction of truth from knowledge in his “Epistemo-Critical Prologue” marks a fundamental break with the truth claims of the empirical sciences, as well as those of any system of philosophy—phenomenological, neo-Kantian, or otherwise—that would be based...
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The Para-Worlds of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
... with science, technology, and innovation, the essay shows how Arimah’s work creates its own metagenre, which functions as a paranormal frame that disrupts the common sense of existing interpretive frameworks of progress and difference. The paranormal in Arimah’s work is a space where the illegible significance...
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Literature and Totality: Kritik durch Darstellung and the Crisis of Literary Production in the Twenty-First-Century Gig Work Novel
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
...” for the ongoing project of the critique of political economy? What would a rethinking of totality’s position in the conceptual architecture of literary criticism offer in the way of new heuristics for the analysis of the novel? Through recourse to G. W. F. Hegel’s Science of Logic and Michael Theunissen, Hans...
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Totality in a Box: The Shipping Container from Commodity to Allegory
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Filippo Menozzi Abstract This essay proposes a reading of the American photographer Allan Sekula’s 1995 essay “Dismal Science” alongside The Forgotten Space , an essay film he directed with Noël Burch in 2010. These works are still resonant today because they suggest the possibility of picturing...
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Living In/difference; or, How to Imagine Ambivalent Networks
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 87–118.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., using a combined quantitative and qualitative, empirical and speculative analysis of social processes. Since then homophily has become a guiding principle for network science: it is simply presumed that similarity breeds connection. But the unpublished study by Merton, Patricia S. West, and Marie Jahoda...
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F. M. Esfandiary. FM-2030 Papers, box F. M. Esfandiary, II. Writings: 1954–...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 December 2024
Fig. 1. F. M. Esfandiary. FM-2030 Papers, box F. M. Esfandiary, II. Writings: 1954–1990, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Author’s photograph.
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Published: 01 December 2024
Fig. 3. Salar Mameni, Ningishzida (2024). Image courtesy of the author. “Perhaps you anticipate Ninazu and his son Ningishzida, whose emblem of the double-headed snake has given us the insignia of modern medical sciences in which you have placed your deep, unwavering faith. These snakes
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Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Hélène Mialet Reincarnating the Knowing Subject
Scientifi c Rationality and the Situated Body
hélène mialet
The new anthropology, history, and sociology of science tend to
describe science in terms of action, cultural practice, social con-
struction, or, better still...
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Violence and Mechanism: Georges Canguilhem's Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
... a conception of the relation of
science and philosophy that was fundamentally non- if not anti-
Cartesian: philosophy could no longer aspire to truth; it was not sci-
ence; it did not coincide with science. In the (quite modifi ed) tran-
script of the interview, Canguilhem continues...
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On the Cognitive Turn in Literary Studies
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 205–219.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in the text as
RB, NI, and WWC, respectively.
As I see it now, the most formidable task of neuroscience is to
stand up to the accusation that animates Adorno’s words, quoted
here: “There is no form of being in the world that science could not
penetrate, but what can be penetrated by science...
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A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-discipline (such as philosophy, history, or mathe-
matics) or a quasi-transcendental discourse (see what is happen-
ing with cognitive science or even “theory Another version of
the concept is closer to a reasoned practice of multidisciplinarity,
providing different, though...
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The Binding Word: Conscience and the Rhetoric of Agency in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 December 2004
... character of its act, dramatize the imperfection of our
own attempts at guaranteeing the morality of our individual con-
victions and our certainty of our duty.
Let me review briefly some of the frustrations that beset con-
science in the Phenomenology of Spirit...
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First Choreography: Or the Essence-of-Dance
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 143–155.
Published: 01 December 2013
...François Laruelle Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 First Choreography
or the Essence- of- Dance
françois laruelle
Translated by Alyosha Edlebi
Up to now, aesthetics has merely been a system of fi ne arts. We
seek what it would become within the limits of a science of the es...
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Revolution from between: Latour's Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 89–124.
Published: 01 June 2015
...,
and only indirectly— to deny the supposed “death of man.”2 Never-
theless, I would argue that this book carries out a sustained dialogue
with Foucault’s work in general and with The Order of Things in par-
ticular. Although the two thinkers have been compared with respect
to the philosophy of science...
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Introduction
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 This issue of Qui Parle centers around Hans Blumenberg (1920-
1996), one of the foremost German thinkers of the postwar era, whose
wide-ranging erudition covered the history of philosophy, theology,
science, and aesthetics from the Greeks to the modern...
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