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Protestant Buddhism and “Influence”: The Temporality of a Concept
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 1–75.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 2. Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard, San Diego harbor, August 1991. Originally published in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story . Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio.
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 1. Welder’s booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard two years after closing. Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, California, July 1991. Originally published in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story . Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio.
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I Assure You, We Have the Strictest Alien Act Possible!: The Emergence of the Concept of “Risky Immigrants” in Denmark
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 145–177.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kaspar Villadsen Abstract This essay tells the story of how Denmark transformed from a very welcoming and tolerant country to one whose prime ministers reassure its residents, “We have the strictest Alien Act possible.” The approach is genealogical, following Michel Foucault, and the empirical...
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The Para-Worlds of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Delali Kumavie Abstract This essay argues that Lesley Nneka Arimah’s collection of short stories, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky , evokes para-worlds that reveal and contend with the world and its norms. Examining the collection’s entwinement of magical, mythical, and animist modes...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 4. Engine-room wiper’s ear protection. Voyage 167 of the containership M/V Sea-Land Quality from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Rotterdam, November 1993. Originally published in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story . Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio.
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Fig. 3. Filling a lifeboat with water equivalent to the weight of a crew to test the movement of the boat falls before departure. Voyage 167 of the containership M/V Sea-Land Quality from Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Rotterdam, November 1993. Originally published in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story
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Being Ocean as Praxis: Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 335–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that come from a “natural” response to our “natural” circumstance. Wynter calls the species we are a part of (or excluded from, as the case may be) Homo narrans , meaning that we tell ourselves a story about being purely biological, governed by science, and then we believe that we are going...
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On the Japanese Translation of The Legend of Freud : A Dialogue with Samuel Weber
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 171–196.
Published: 01 December 2009
... theoretical project. Hence the need for the
“stories” to which he constantly turns.
In this way, you follow Freud up to those points where the
moments that resist his “theory” (even his theory of resistance)
appear irreducible to interpretable “meanings”: those places
called dream, Witz (joke...
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The Politics of Fiction
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... by a weaving of words, stories, images, movements, thoughts, and affects. They are fictions, which doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. Fictions are not fantasies that deny or obliterate the real world. On the contrary, they shape worlds, and they give to those worlds their reality, which means their sense...
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Testimony in Counterpoint: Psychiatric Fragments in the Aftermath of Culture
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 63–123.
Published: 01 June 2008
... or disabling idioms
within larger logics of the state, as grounds of appeal, compensa-
tion, recognition, or inclusion.2 These are unquestionably impor-
tant dimensions of the story I wish to tell. Yet drifting aside, culti-
vating a peripheral vision and a peripheral listening, might allow
one to trace...
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Blind Spots and Failed Performance: Abortion, Feminism, and Queer Theory
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 June 2009
... singularly empowering experiences I’ve had as a
sexual subject. But, of course, I have hardly ever said so in public.
Jeannie Ludlow observes that there is a hierarchy within femi-
nist discourse about abortion, with a premium placed on “trauma-
tized” abortion stories—in which...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Fig. 2. Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard, San Diego harbor, August 1991. Originally published in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story . Courtesy of the Allan Sekula Studio. ...
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Unfinished Trials and Sentences: 1917 at 100
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 251–266.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Dominick Lawton A review of Miéville China , October: The Story of the Russian Revolution ( London : Verso , 2017 ). Cited in the text as o . Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 China Miéville’s novelistic account of the Russian Revolution, written for its...
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Objects, Lost and Found: Henry Darger and the Art of Salvage
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 169–177.
Published: 01 December 2013
...- page
In the Realms of the Unreal, an illustrated fantasy of literally epic
proportions (the unabridged title tells it all: The Story of the Viv-
ian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the
Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebel-
lion), is a work...
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The Devil Finds Use: Black Queers Do The Exorcist
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . The Exorcist . New York : HarperCollins , 2011 . Bost Darius . “ Queering Violence in the Stories of G. Winston James .” In Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital , edited by Davis Adrienne D. and BSE Collective , 187 – 99 . Champaign : University of Illinois Press...
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In Medias Res: Visiting Nalini Malani's Retrospective Exhibition, New Delhi, 2014
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 31–62.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of
sorts. But what for, and how was that political act conceptualized?
What’s the story?4
Museum ofArt, NewDelhi, 2014. Fig. 1. Floor planforthird chapterofthe exhibition Fire Exit...
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Driven
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... lurk around the corner. The traffic queller will soon be
quelled or crash. Which means that if the accident isn't fatal, the
thrill will have to be renewed. But Toad's story remains exemplary
inasmuch as it designates the driver's seat as the site where modern...
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