... of the Anthropocene, certain fundamental relations (between subject and object, between nature and history, between past, present, and future) must be rethought to account for both the eclipse of the human as well as nature’s ultimate survival. This essay seeks to develop a philosophical form that would approximate...

...Elizabeth Freeman Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 “We’re Only Making Plans for Nigel” In Response to Didier Eribon elizabeth freeman I would like to begin with the keyword that haunts Professor Di- dier Eribon’s lyrical and tenacious piece: survival. Colloquially, to survive...

... of what is gone. This plastic fossilization is not a “mortifying act,” however, but a marker of survival. 25 I trace how such imaginal analytics of the materiality and memory nexus play out in regard to two important “objects” in Didi-Huberman’s oeuvre, bark and skull. I argue that a focus on Didi...

.... Trauma, on this account, is as much about the living as it is about the dead. Indeed, it is about thinking the living and the dead at once, thinking within that mute space of intersection that we call both disaster and survival. He survives. She survives. They sur- vive. We...

.... These terms just give voice to the discrepant desires and discontents of counter/ parts .” 5 Ordinariness deflates the headiness, or grounds the dizziness, of believing that language can resolve our aloneness. In “‘And to Survive’” Christina Sharpe responds to a discussion of In the Wake and offers...

... for a number of Central European intellectuals, but one that rarely survived the Atlantic crossing when their works became famous in the United States. 2 The increasing discursive amalgamation of communism with the politics of the Soviet Union in the 1960s amounted to the gradual illegibility of regional...

... , translated by van Reenen Sandra and de Ville Jacques . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . Didi-Huberman Georges . Survival of the Fireflies , translated by Mitchell Lia Swope . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . Marder Michael...

... of kinship and sociality that satiated their longing and kept alive their desires for a world in excess of the one they had survived. Black women courted dapper hustlers and shapely dancers, raised children alone, retained permanent partners and transient lovers, and lived with friends, admirers...

... At the heart of Gehlen's position was the contention that man, lack- ing fundamental instincts and organs crucial to his survival, had been left to depend on his ability to modify his surroundings. Thus his very mode of being was fundamentally technological; he survived only through his ability...

..., namely, the power to decide what stays (and what does not). The world survives.4 It certainly survives its Christian formation, but if it does so through an apparent identifi cation with the secular, it may nonetheless survive the critique of the secular. More essential...

... intellectuals and a mode of critique that vigorously defended higher education’s public role and the formative culture and modes of literacy that were essential to its survival and promise.9 Such a democratic mandate for the university, however compromised at times, was emboldened by various struggles...

... cultural strategies for surviving the lived experience of racialization that constitutes black life ( “Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space,” 298 ; Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail , 53 ). 2. Scott , Extravagant Abjection , 38–39. Hereafter cited as ea . 1...

... cannot envisage is that the victim as it were survives its own death: all different forms of traumatic encounters, independently of their specific nature (so- cial, natural, biological, symbolic), lead to the same result—a new subject emerges that survives its own death, the death...

...- ways potentially defi cient features of human nature. Both are indispensable functions that contribute to the survival and self- preservation of individuals, helping them deal with external con- tact and stimuli, while also carrying with them a degree of con- tingency, fuzziness, and distortion...

... or to criticism (these amount to the same): it is, in other words, promised to a life surpassing death, survival. Boneyard of names, heads never empty. — Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster' Maurice Blanchot both describes and performs...

..., the first-born daughter of South-to-North African American transplants—in a way that is both literary and visual. Both poets navigate the burdens of self-possession through maternal fragmentation and poetic force, engendering anger as a motif of determined survival and registering the stifled or subsumed...

... the infrastruc- tures that have sustained it may be the primary challenge for eco- logical narrative in the service of human species survival beyond the twenty-fi rst century. The BP blowout poses a unique representational challenge be- cause it follows an unusual episode of de-reifi...

... of these unfortunate creatures made him change his mind about survival: after such a vision, his “keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.” The two thinkers who sense the threat of looming senility in the very discourse of psychoanalysis after Freud had passed away in 1939...

... focus on the Black person as someone whose survival is contingent on their being extraordinary. After global movements for Black life in 2020, commodities began popping up in big-box merchandisers across America: Black Girl Magic brand rosé, T-shirts emblazoned with silhouetted Afros, books about how...

... terrain. What remained was to undo the conjunction between his- tory and philosophy, petrified not in the object, but in the very con- cept of the Renaissance. Leaving behind the imitation of the ancients for the survival of paganism, Warburg had reinserted the "Renaissance...