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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 183–212.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Nicola Masciandaro Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Paradisical Pessimism
On the Crucifi xion Darkness and the
Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow
nicola masciandaro
Sunt lacrimae rerum
—Virgil, Aeneid 1.462
All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feels...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Nicola Masciandaro Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 The Sorrow of Being
nicola masciandaro
The root of all pure joy and sadness is that the world is as it is.
Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community
Not how the world is, is the mystical...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... energy, baptized in anger and disgust as much as sorrow, reverberates as a groan—that deep, nonlexical sound of despair; that low moaning breath when weight crushes the chest. It’s the breath of a person in pain, an attempt to assuage something they have no remedy for. Her groan is an indictment...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 159–161.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a chair. In the waning grief an earthquake’s whiskers
twitch in a box. Gog is sorrowful if the dappled shadows
cut swallow holes out like open-heart surgery. When you
see a gog you’ll know. Look closely at the gog, organically
a miracle, it grows...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 287–290.
Published: 01 June 2014
... include Dark Nights of the Universe, coau-
thored with Daniel Colucciello Barber, Alexander Galloway, and
Eugene Thacker (2013); and And They Were Two in One and One
in Two, coedited with Eugene Thacker (2014). Current and forth-
coming projects include Sorrow of Being, a book...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 519–532.
Published: 01 December 2017
... reading, a complete reading, completed reading, then there would also be reading no more. Contagion is a branded, brand new, sorrow. It beats and heaves and heaves again, In surviving, survived none—refused all. It heaves and beats again. Or even, where...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 111–122.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., on the contrary, all those
that follow from sorrow diminish this power. The difference be-
tween these different kinds of states gives the subject the feeling
of being alive. “Affect” can then be used as a generic term that
not only comprises Spinoza’s definition but also characterizes...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the “objective narration” that describes Benjy’s wail: “It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.” 9 This short passage, which sounds as another echo of the chant of the “rusty pump,” can sum up the work of fiction...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of dead herring and staring blandly at the camera, appar-
ently indifferent to the carnage at their feet), and the various justi-
fications, including scientific ones, for denying animal pain—that
first generates our puzzled horror, perhaps even sorrow, but a mut-
ed sorrow, a sorrow over a typical...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., the grief, it also harbors. (Siward may be unable or
unwilling to grieve, but Malcolm can: “He’s worth more sorrow, /
And that I’ll spend for him” [5.9.18–19
The archaic, oracular theater conceives of the relation between
image and act as a prophetic, perhaps a performative one: to think...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
... this paranormal space, Ogechi’s new child bears “her mother’s face,” and its joy is its only currency. Ogechi chants as she molds her new child, “ Let this child be born in sorrow. . . . Let this child live in sorrow. Let this child not grow into a foolish, hopeful girl with joy to barter .” 65 Realizing...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 151–182.
Published: 01 December 2012
... inasmuch as he is an intrud-
er. It is for this reason that the Church Fathers placed envy in close
proximity to sorrow for the good of others, but also to the eclipse
of desire that this sorrow causes in the envious subject.22 Envy ac-
quires the traits of a “capital vice” due...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2013
... interminable feature) is the feeling of happiness
that straightaway submerges the child, the ravaging joy to which
he can bear witness only by tears, an endless fl ood of tears. He
is thought to suffer a childish sorrow; attempts are made to con-
sole him. He says nothing. He...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 115–133.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., Sorrow, and the Feel-
ing Brain (New York: Harcourt, 2003).
8. The constitutive role of imaginatio is discussed extensively by Susan
James, “Narrative as the Means to Freedom: Spinoza on the Uses of
Imagination,” in Spinoza’s Theological- Political Treatise...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 175–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... things,
And battles long ago;
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
182 qui parle fall/winter 2008 vol.17, no.1
What e’er the theme, the maiden sang
As if her...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 279–299.
Published: 01 June 2011
... among them) we are apt to encounter
the Ambler, the Hurrying, the Hesitant, the Curious, the Sullen or
Sorrowful Panhandler or his or her compeer, the Purveyor of Street
Spirit. We might come upon Lucia Millie Dubose, or Cora Jane
Ballisandro, or Sebastian Marshal Smith...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
... from her devoted husband and knowing he is doomed to
eternal pain? She cannot square her love and her belief in the face
of his nonbelief.
How, in short, can happiness and beatitude square with the wit-
nessing of human sorrows? Hardcore Calvinism understood all hu-
man suffering, including...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 135–160.
Published: 01 December 2015
... traditional military-political his-
tories of the United States, such as Stanley Karnow, In Our Image:
America’s Empire in the Philippines (New York: Ballantine Books,
1981), and Chalmers Johnson, Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Se-
crecy, and the End of the Republic (New York: Henry Holt, 2004...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 11–37.
Published: 01 June 2004
... possession / What
gives more disquietude, than pleasure; / But charitably
diffusing it / To all round about him: / Making the most
sorrowful countenance / To smile, / In his presence; /
Always bestowing more than he was ask'd, / Always
THE BAWDY...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 57–84.
Published: 01 December 2011
....
31. Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling
Brain (Orlando: Harcourt, 2003), 32.
32. Moore’s Law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who
predicted in the 1960s that integrated circuits could double the num-
ber of transistors they could contain...
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