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... understanding of sense as the event of the mutual exposure of bodies reveals what exceeds dominant worldviews, how bodies extend the world beyond prevailing spatializations, but that it does not sufficiently examine what prevents us from sensing that event as a call to world creation. Conversely, Ahmed analyzes...

... but as comprising a series of mimetic displacements, reproductions, gestures. Teaching thus magnifies the possibilities at “the limit of sense.” As Nancy puts it: the reconfiguration of those listening students will continue its reach where a teacher’s mastery has reached its finitude. Amid contemporary...

...Jacques Rancière Abstract This essay uses constructions of avowed fiction from modern Western literature and criticism (Erich Auerbach, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner) to question the sense of reality constructed by dominant social discourses that claim to be the mere expression of reality...

...Divya Dwivedi Abstract Jean-Luc Nancy was concerned with commencement at several levels, of several kinds, in several senses, because he could speak of commencement with affirmation, which means with audacity. From the hospital in July 2021 he completed his last essay, which was intended...

...Sean Michael Muller Abstract Rural America is shaped by a conflicted sense of the ordinary: a place where a pastoral imagination of the countryside overlaps with, obscures, and, at times, is obscured by images of addiction and economic abandonment. This essay explores how these two senses...

...John Paul Ricco Centered on The Andrew Project (2010–13) by artist Shaan Syed, this article is a theoretical meditation on the politics and ethics of the name, drawing, the portrait, anonymity, and the signature, as these bear on a shared sense of loss and its impossible commemoration. I invoke...

... , as well as in his Logic of Sense —constitutes the crucial condition of possibility of Deleuze’s philosophical theory of the cinema and, in particular, of his twofold understanding of cinema as medium of expression and of cinema as expression of time. Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018...

.... Through its refined composition and succinct prose, the book puts itself at the service of the approach that leads to bringing forth philosophical concepts, and it attunes the reader to the creative activity. Thus, like The Logic of Sense (1969) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), it forms a masterwork...

... 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...

... of the manner in which such criticism can call itself secular. It suggests, furthermore, that this account not only clarifies the workings of Said’s own critical consciousness but also provides a likewise more nuanced view of the “method” or “rationality” such a consciousness deploys in making sense of human...

...Shaj Mohan Abstract Deconstruction was the beginning of a disassembly of metaphysics that now proceeds toward anastasis through the openings created by Jean-Luc Nancy. Deconstruction remained classical in the sense of its reliance on classical laws of thought, of which it remained the self-critique...

... requires in fact a solid, counterdiasporic sense of home. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2022 visual theory racialization Ronit Matalon Roland Barthes Mizrahi Jews In her photographic debut novel, Ze ʿ im ha-panim elenu ( The One Facing Us , 1995...

... operations of understanding conjoined with inputs of sense data) in relation to representations of a real that is unaffected by any such construction. Marx distinguishes the sequence of moments that constitute production, from exchange and appropriation according to the moments of Hegelian concepts...

... même le savoir” (This is not an easy thought, and it is not a thought at all, in fact: it’s a praxis , an ethos , a lived and living disposition with which, in one sense, we are already familiar without even knowing it) ( LP , 42). For me, at least, this is what distinguishes Nancy so decisively from...

...- quent phenomenon is a consciously experienced feeling of seem- ingly groundless, irrational guilt, a sense of culpability minus an awareness of a transgression as a preceding cause, a situation sometimes resulting in what Freud characterizes as individuals be- coming “criminals from a sense...

... the “agreement” (the sense) of a form of life is found in the knot that binds form to life, language to the unsayable. This view of life, as a univocity of transmutating form, or as variations of world, is likewise a central premise of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy. In an interview with Toni Negri, 69...

... that this discourse, which thus anticipates a tipping point, a singularity in the mathematical and physical sense of the term, by this very gesture puts forward two theses whose conjunction warrants serious consideration but that there is space here only to mention: on the one hand, it asserts that a bifurcation...

... interest in relation to the broad horizon he calls “sense,” namely, the fact of existence, and our exposure to this fact, irreducible to any determinate signifi cation, the opening to and of the world that is re-marked— but not appropriated— by any act of fi guration.1 The interface along which...

...—to an emergent identity with a new or renewed sense of collectivity. Indeed, this is why Gramsci, in “The Modern Prince,” demarcates the difference between corporative and hege- monic class in terms of the entrenchment of the former in history and the “moral and intellectual...

... the text its sense of discontinuous transformation but that arise from its carefully structured rhythm. Just as the change is marked by its appearance, it is undone by its lack of development, since the image finds itself unaccompanied by any sense of passage; it is as if, Blanchot writes, an uncrossable...