...Christopher Patrick Miller A review of Meister Robert , After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 ). Cited in the text as ae . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 A Just Grammar Unspeakable Speech in Robert Meister christopher...

...Denise Riley Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 "A VOICE WITHOUT A MOUTH": INNER SPEECH Denise Riley Whose voice, no one's, there is no one, there's a voice without a mouth, and somewhere a kind of hearing, something...

...Rei Terada Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Out of Place Free Speech, Disruption, and Student Protest rei terada In Political Spaces and Global War, Carlo Galli suggests that de- mand for the “positive ‘freedom of’ speech and criticism” is cre- ated by the modern state form’s...

...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...

... through a look at three scenes from Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu in which the event of someone talking to themselves is represented and then analyzed, notably to reveal that it is not so easy to assume that the speech authored within any single mind-space is owned by the person associated...

... War and in support of the Berkeley free speech movement. This work is brought into dialogue with some of the conversations in France following May 1968 and with the slogan “Structures don’t take to the streets.” In both these sites, the question of the problematic relationship between individual...

... But with “Pedro the Voder,” AT&T announced the arrival of the World of Tomorrow. Advertised as the fi rst technology to create true speech with- out recourse to fi lm or phonographic recording, the Voder went beyond previous automata in its ability to turn out full sentences...

...Emily O'Rourke A review of Rancière Jacques , Mute Speech , translated by Swenson James ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 ). Cited in the text as ms . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 For the Love of Democracy On the Politics of Jacques Rancière’s History...

...Karen Feldman Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 THE BINDING WORD: CONSCIENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF AGENCY IN HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT Karen Feldman Who is responsible for all that gets said and done in a speech act? Is the speech act an act of speech, an act performed...

...? Formulated as a question in the first weeks of 2017, this was, most immediately, a turn to thinking about speech today, be it free, double, or squarely violent. At the same time, it was a self-referential move. Who speaks when Qui Parle speaks? From its beginnings, Qui Parle has been a deeply collective...

... a referent out there in the world. Likewise, Frege acknowledges that sometimes, as in reported speech, the referents of our words are the senses of someone else’s words—marking a departure from the “ordinary way” of speaking where an external referent outside language is assured. 17 Frege’s mathematical...

... in the termination of Professor Salaita’s position, putting the whole pretense of civil versus uncivil speech into question— a pre- tense that we here at Rutgers, where I presently teach, have certainly heard before.2 In the fall of 2010, Rutgers gained media attention for the trag- ic...

.... This essay traces how and why blasphemy fades from United States legal dis- course as the utterly confused category of moral turpitude rises in its modern, secular shadow. Blasphemy and the Law Blasphemy— profane speech about God or the sacred— has a long history in the Christian West...

... to the perception of sound in gen- eral, the human ear is, above all, tuned to this vocal emission that reveals singular bodies to one another. In contrast to speech, the voice puts hearing in play even before listening. 72 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 Speaking Voice Auditory...

..., Derrida presents for our consideration the fact that there is always a pragmatic gap between the speech act of declarations of Qui Pane, Vol. 16, No.1 Summer 2006 146 KELVIN C. BLACK freedom and their actual performance.2 Serving both as the space of national critique...

... as central to any debate about the nature of the lyric. Culler is quite clear that he wants to produce a theory of the lyric that does not rely upon lyric’s negative relation to the novel; indeed, one of his central goals is to push back against the widespread idea that a poem is a “fi ctive speech...

... in all realms— from everyday France to early- modern colonies to mystic shores. When the classical allusion reappears in the revised version of “Mystic Speech” that introduces the fi rst volume of The Mystic Fable (published in French in 1982 and in a posthumous English...

... of thought in language and language in speech [ parole ]. To work on an object in thought is to put to the test (and to put oneself to the test of) a certain number of words and connections between words. The test is that of sense. Sense (which is not at all the fixed “signification” of words) is what...

... as a concept was important to me in my earliest work, not by way of Cavell, but by way of J. L. Austin, whom Cavell calls his teacher. In my first book, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics , I noted the commonalities between performative speech acts as analyzed by Austin, the ordinary language...

... been defi ned. What’s important is not just that saying is necessarily thought of as signifying, but fi rst of all that there is this “something,” this ti, that might be put to service as an object of speech. I propose to put this all into question by drawing upon the Chinese outside...