...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...

...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. Shot, frame, absolute out-of-field. Movement-image...

.... 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...

..., 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 of guilt,” that is, precipitously act- ing out in transgressive manners so as paradoxically...

... the sense of the impossible and thus the impossibility of sense. Yet at bottom, this critique is already made. It never ceases to produce itself each day, all the while knowing itself to be in crisis, knowing itself as exposed to the leap in the cri and in writing. One and the other also have...

... a specific problem space: 4 “To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.” 5 Form of life here figures as the field in which language is situated. This field, the formal sense of life, 6 is that which lies outside the strict scene of the utterance while remaining indelibly tied...

... 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...

... 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” transformation of the latter...

... 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...

... in the fact that he opened up the dimension his psychoanaly- sis cannot succeed in “comprehending” (in every sense of the word), and that psychoanalysis inevitably produces a supple- mentary and uncanny remainder. And indeed, in the chapters “Sideshow” and “Uncanny Thinking...

... indication that the social element in the lyric might be deduced from the social content of the poem or the social interests of the poet. Such an aspiration would already be unattainable in the sense that society is "an inter- nally contradictory unity" (LS, 39) and thus...

... that might drift aside, in an “untimely” fashion, from the encompassing hegemony of these vocabularies.1 Drifting aside, as well, from the still crucial debates on how trauma, witnessing, and biography instantiate and deploy strategies of global power, or how, in a related sense, they become enabling...

... resources for a contemporary theory of political imaginaries, something can be found here. Despite the generality of Spinoza’s epistemological conception of the imaginatio, it receives a remarkable sharpness and concreteness in his political writings. Equipped with a fi ne sense of the imaginative...

... — such as those regarding race and visual representation — must guard against simply re-inscribing the assumptions that authorize racist discourse and practice.' Many of those assumptions, however, have sedimented into various notions of common sense and now also inform counter...

... in the aftermath of the coup in Egypt (and emerging from the virulent polemics there between secularists and others), Asad was drawn to consider what he here calls the “vital sense” of tradition, and the difficulties of its present life. But although he has written that in tradition the present is always...

...Christopher Peterson Derrida’s Ouija Board Christopher Peterson In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, the aptly named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) discloses to his therapist the now-infa- mous words: “I see dead people.” Only at the end of the film does Malcolm Crowe (Bruce...

... to this coexistence of the two genres within the same aesthetic frame, and thus also the guarantee for the effect of the marvelous to succeed, is verisimili- tude, vraisemblance. The supernatural events must be plausible. They must refer to a quasi-nature, one that, if it is not accessible to the senses...

..., which is recorded in An- selm’s maxim, credo ut intelligam, apophatic mysticism insists on the priority of feeling over understanding, that is, feeling in the sense of the real movement of will necessary for directing the intel- lect beyond itself and into divine reality. Mystical apophasis...