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...Alan Bass Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Play’s the Thing Jugs Are Us Alan Bass Two babies are feeding at the breast. One is feeding on the self, since the breast and the baby have not yet become . . . separate phenomena. The other is feeding from an other-than-me...

...Donna Jones The Career of Living Things Is Continuous Refl ections on Bergson, Iqbal, and Scalia donna jones It is the forgotten war, but still the watershed event of moderni- ty. The Great War was a catastrophic shock to world civilization. The rationalization of slaughter raised...

...Shaka McGlotten; Sarah VanGundy Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Zombie Porn 1.0 or, Some Queer Things Zombie Sex Can Teach Us1 shaka mcglotten and sarah vangundy “Death Is the New Pornography” This essay bites off more than it can chew. Inspired by the work of Canadian fi lmmaker...

...Branka Arsić Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 ARTICLES Our Things Thoreau on Objects, Relics, and Archives branka arsić Distantly related things are strangely near. —Thoreau, Journal, May 23, 1851 Thoreau is as much obsessed with things as he is with oak trees...

...Laura Hengehold Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Revolution from Between Latour’s Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern laura hengehold In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault notes that ethnology was only possible due to an “absolutely singular event which involves...

...Magdalena Zolkos Abstract Studies of material objects in the field of memory studies have followed diverse epistemological and disciplinary trajectories, but their shared characteristic has been the questioning of philosophical assumptions concerning human relations with inanimate things and lower...

...Thomas Nail Abstract We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history, people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. If being is increasingly defined by the historical primacy of motion today yet existing ontologies are not, then we need...

... , that is, prosopon pros prosopon . Prosopon , the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia ( prosopon poiein : to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence of prosopopoeia is found in the eighteenth-century British genre called “it-narrative,” in which inanimate things speak...

... lowest place, rather than with the nomos and topos imposed by the (modern) world and its regime of the proper. Immanence is thought of as anti- and antenomian force, a groundless ground coming underneath the conceptual logics of the world, its normative order of things, and life lived according to its...

...Phillip Warnell; Jean-Luc Nancy Abstract This is a creative dialogue between artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell and author-philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. It explores, among other things, their film, text, and research collaborations spanning more than a decade. Fig. 1. Placebo: Animal Magnetism...

... it. The contradictions rather seem to lie with the crit- ics, who, like his defenders, have failed to notice how exactly Schopenhauer develops and deploys his key concepts — represen- tation, appearance, one's own body [Leib], the will, and the thing in itself — and what the various connections...

...Ramsey McGlazer A review of Bersani Leo , Thoughts and Things ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as tt . Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 REVIEW ESSAYS The Fortress Deserted Bersani’s Pastorals ramsey mcglazer A review of Leo...

... things (for works of art are them- selves always such) is the aim of all the arts and is possible with a corresponding change in the knowing subject. — Schopenhauer...

... the specifi c origin of things that are pre- sented as abstract. That’s the fi rst level of analysis. The second is philosophical. The kinds of arguments that are presented in philosophy characteristically happen at a very abstract level. But in the fi rst instance, they develop out...

... Feeling today, as in the work of Noga Rotem in political theory at University of Washington—Austin, beside him. That is a way to characterize what I’m doing with Austin in my new project. While I do offer a reading of his book How to Do Things with Words , the text where he introduces the term...

...: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” The experience of nothingness comes neither from concepts nor from grammatical negation...

...: The assurance of the not-given is involved in action, in expectation, in fear, hope, or want: I call it animal faith. The object of this faith is the substantial energetic thing encountered in action, whatever the thing may be in itself; by moving, devouring...

...Katherine F. Chandler REVIEW ESSAYS Political Environments katherine f. chandler A review of Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010); and Isabelle Stengers, Cos- mopolitics I, trans. Robert Bononno (Minneapolis...

... of the Real and deepens one’s creative capacity. In short, Ṣadrā’s philosophy is its own reward. Deleuze hesitates to affirm entities in their actuality, from political movements to cinematic narratives, for fear they would reinforce the reign of cliché. Things need to be volatile, seething with their own...