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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and geometric
Truth, / The knowledge that endures,” and on “their high privilege
of lasting life, / Exempt from all internal injury” (“pbf,” 64– 67).
He falls asleep and dreams of “an Arabian waste” and, in it, an
Arab, who is bearing a lance, a shell, and a stone. In the dream
the Arab tells...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 95–100.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and nail, 20 x 25 in.
Fig. 2. Body Bag: Smell Shell, 2011. Handwritten note, plastic bag,
seashell, pushpin, dimensions variable.
Fig. 3. Body Bag: Smell Shell, 2011 (detail). Handwritten note, plastic
bag, seashell, pushpin, dimensions variable.
Fig. 4. Body Bag: Get Out, 2011. Photograph printout...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 171–176.
Published: 01 June 2001
...
writings and the first volume of his epic journey into the afterlife,
the Human Age cycle — has a structure which echoes that of the
wartime painting A Battery Shelled, it is suddenly possible to see
the paeans in the shifting landscape of the other world...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 June 2021
... needed rescue from the suffocation of quarantine, of scattered memory. To write that the Philippine lockdown had left a shell of a man is to understate his condition. He was sunken flesh, the sardines untouched. The wall calendar beneath his mattress, his glasses stored in a hidden pocket, his cash...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 December 2003
... it poses to anti-racist critical practice. Indeed, confront-
ed with the chain of phantasmatic associations summoned up by
black skin,' representation of any political valence finds itself hard
pressed to do more than provide an "obliging shell"2 for a racial
specter...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
...” (113). 20. Euripides , Suppliant Women. Electra. Heracles , 210–11 (vv. 558–59). On the numismatic origin of character, see also Shell , “Language of Character”; and Lynch , Economy of Character . 21. De Man , “Hypogram and Inscription,” 44. On catachresis as “forced use” or “forced...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 151–182.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that images of cells, shells, and autotrophism, or self-
nourishment, recur so frequently in Freud’s work, pointing to the
originarily autistic condition of the subject.)1 This phase is charac-
terized by a sort of substantial solipsism, one that seems to exclude
a priori every trace of the Other...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic . 49. Lange, “The Computer and the Market,” 159 . 50. Marc Shell has noted the ironic coincidence contained in the expression electronic money , which happens to completely dematerialize the original valuable substance ( Money, Language, and Thought...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 25–63.
Published: 01 June 2020
... creative periods, and adopts them as an outer shell around the becoming that his work unmasks or affords, delivering it to unknown recipients who become tempted or even forced to carry on his endeavor. With this double text Deleuze makes the transition imperative and arduous for the thought and creation...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 127–150.
Published: 01 December 2012
... character’s main occupational hazard.24 In view of
the arduous, not to say tedious, effort necessary to maintain those
hard shells, especially when, as is so often the case, they contain
soft centers, and given the impossibility of getting resent out of rep-
resentation, it is surprising, in fact...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 December 2019
... power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply” ( “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 254 ). 14. Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel . 15. Derrida, Specters of Marx , 92 . 16. De Valera, India and Ireland , 24 . 17. De...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 47–76.
Published: 01 June 2018
... them. Most important, ontology becomes historical ontology, grounded in the material conditions of its time. Just as Marx extracts a “rational kernel” of the dialectic from the “mystical shell” of Hegel’s speculative philosophy, which results in a new historical materialist dialectic, so a new...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 387–401.
Published: 01 December 2022
... , film still (2017). Fig. 6. The Flying Proletarian, film still (2017). Further to this, The Canton suggests a point, from where the muscle is attached to the shell of a clam, toward an opening and eventually “the open,” a nonhuman space that you, among others—I’m thinking of Jean-Christophe...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 December 2004
... that goes from stone and desert to the spirit, from
thought already present within the very texture of things, inscribed
in the strata of rock or shell, and rising toward even more explicit
forms of manifestation. The second schema on the other hand
seizes the spirit...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 December 2012
... childhood shattered and cast to
the winds. . . . It is a treat to unlearn that, despite the teachings of
Artesian wells and volcanoes, of earthquakes and thermal springs,
we are inhabiting a kind of mundane egg-shell, a solid crust, an
orange skin of so badly conducting matter...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 June 2011
...
of inequality. On the one hand, this system has favored an explo-
sion in the prices of scientifi c journals, which are becoming quite
simply unaffordable for individuals. Only institutional libraries
can shell out the astronomical sums demanded by these newly
consolidated journals. And I...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 25–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to forty-square miles of disappearing marsh per year—
and that is prior to the BP spill. The strong aesthetic dimensions
of this problem, whose geological name is subsidence, have been
well documented by journalists, politicians, and even Shell Oil,
which launched a media campaign to save...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 147–161.
Published: 01 December 2014
... as the
earthly shell of a more enduring dynastic body, Western politics
links eternity and time in a single theological-political strand. If we
recall the cover image of Leviathan, where many small men form a
single gigantic body, we have the ideal expression of this exclusion-
ary...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 December 2012
... pathos and the pathos of an object these words are
meant to describe, in objects as expected as a photograph and as
unexpected as a snail shell.
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The affects Berlant studies are fl eeting even though the conclu-
sions they allow her...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 95–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... hands tied behind his back and hobbled, begins
to envy Mister, who “looked so . . . free. Better than me. Stronger,
tougher. Son of a bitch couldn’t even get out of his shell by hisself
but he was still king and I was . . . (be, 86, emphasis added). “Better”
because Mister symbolizes...
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