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A Just Grammar: Unspeakable Speech in Robert Meister
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 203–222.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of the victim, proper structures of mourning, and retribu-
tion for loss. Robert Meister’s previous book, Political Identity:
Thinking Through Marx (1990), asked what kind of subject de-
mocracy imagines and constructs. His most recent book asks how,
under the auspices of popular sovereignty, we identify...
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The Predicament of Humanitarianism
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 33–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Didier Fassin Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 The Predicament of Humanitarianism
didier fassin
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti provoked a spectacular wave of
humanitarianism, especially in the United States, where sympa-
thy for the victims gave rise to the mobilization...
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Space to Breathe
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 223–236.
Published: 01 June 2024
... victims of anti-Black brutality, her reflection begins with her witnessing Rankine at a screening of Situation 8 . Sharpe’s naming of these victims harks back to Rankine’s famous act of inscribing the names of Black people killed in hate crimes in Citizen , 35–36 . As Rankine’s list of victims...
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Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject: On Catherine Malabou's Les Nouveaux Blessés and Other Autistic Monsters
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., the shocking effect on
the victims of bomb explosions in war—owe their traumatic effect
to the resonance they find in perverse masochism, in death drive,
in unconscious guilt feeling, etc. Today, however, our sociopoliti-
cal reality itself imposes multiple versions of external intrusions,
traumas...
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Does Creativity Deny Itself?
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 59–83.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the suffering of those affected by one’s actions, the real
people to whom the tragic self, victimized by a relation with a self-
authored but ominous Other, does not relate. Why would these
characters, or indeed anybody, want to construct their own fate?
The gain must be at least...
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“From Figure to Ground”: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman on the Politics of the Humanitarian Present
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of that diagnosis as well in your discus-
sion of the development of a new paradigm of victimization. Most
interestingly, though, what I think you also do toward the end of
that chapter is to show how for msf in particular, there is a pro-
cess of learning and evolution in terms of even...
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Recent Histories and Uncertain Futures: Contemporary Critiques of International Human Rights and Humanitarianism
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 June 2013
... claims in genuine po-
litical struggles: “Rights are back in the hands of the international
community police . . . [no longer] available for political subjecti-
fi cation but the name of the absolute victim that suspends such
subjectifi cation.”19
Yet despite these myriad...
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Enrique Dussel's Etica de La Liberación , U.s. Women of Color Decolonizing Practices, and Coalitionary Politics Amidst Difference
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 December 2010
... useful.
In Etica Dussel recognizes the importance of oppression beyond
class or simultaneously with it by other forms of exploitation, ex-
clusion, and marginalization that render a wide range of people,
victims, as he puts it.10 In the U.S. civil rights struggles organized
through coalitions...
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Disaster as a Place of Morality: The Sovereign, the Humanitarian, and the Terrorist
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Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 June 2006
... expertise, emergency medicine, means of
rapid transport for personnel, equipment and victims, and capaci-
ties for coordinating activities on both technical, bureaucratic, and
geo-political levels. Although the genealogy of "technologies of dis-
aster" (TD) extends back to the late medieval plague...
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The Colors of Ideas
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 127–138.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of a fi re that has moved him, a poet risks mov-
134 qui parle spring/summer 2013 vol.21, no.2
ing the reader more through the marvelous rhymes in which he
describes the victims among the fl ames than for by real suffering of
these victims. Poets often exhibit grand sentiments...
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Citizens of Disaster
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 105–137.
Published: 01 December 2005
...; a woman is raped in the stairwell of her home. This is
random list, of disasters that take place every day all around the
world. Although in many respects these disasters differ one from
another, the type of belonging of the victims in relation to the
injured population is significant for any...
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Contributors
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 185–186.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... W. F. Hegel, and Georges Ba-
taille.” He is also in the process of co- translating François Laru-
elle’s Théorie générale des victimes into English.
roberto esposito is full professor of theoretical philosophy and
the coordinator of the doctoral program in philosophy in the Scuo-
la Normale...
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An Immanence without the World: On Dispossession, Nothingness, and Secularity
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 51–86.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the insurrection of the victim, that “intimate nudity [that] can act and topple all transcendences, those of the earth and of the sky, into a more radical immanence.” 49 The exigency of radical immanence is a thought not from the world, but either from prior to its origin (as Eckhart’s logic suggests...
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Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust: Notes for a Reading of W. G. Sebald
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... it inconceivable that this flaw was not intended:
That unshapely hand signifies the violence that has been done to
Aris Kindt. It is with him, the victim, and not the Guild that gave
Rembrandt his commission, that the painter identifies. His gaze
alone is free of Cartesian rigidity. He...
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Contributors
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 249–252.
Published: 01 June 2013
... States of Emergency (with
M. Pandolfi , 2010) and Moral Anthropology (2012) as editor; and
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victim-
hood (with R. Rechtman, 2009), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral
History of the Present (2011), and Enforcing Order: An Ethnogra-
phy of Urban...
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Driven
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... the setting of
a revolutionary order founded upon the ideal of dangerous living:
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Every now and then, our highways demand a victim; and
he who expends the greatest time and courage out...
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A Disaster by Any Other Name
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 197–225.
Published: 01 December 2005
... that has ever existed on earth was realized: this
is what counts in the last analysis, for the victims as for those who
come after" (HS, 166). As such, the camps are the "nomos" of the
biopolitical nature of sovereign power that constitutes modernity...
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Retooling Democracy and Feminism in the Service of the New Empire
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Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 117–143.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., a reality
whose truth the Western world already knew. The regnant assump-
tion undergirding this consensus seemed to be that insofar as
Islam's victims are not individuals but entire collectivities, its essen-
tial brutality cannot be falsified because it transcends...
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The Third Revolution: Black Women’s Twentieth-Century Experiments in Ending the World
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 391–404.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . Hartman Saidiya . “ Venus in Two Acts .” Small Axe , no. 26 ( 2008 ): 1 – 14 . James Joy , and Vargas João Costa . “ Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs .” In Pursuing Trayvon: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial...
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Workers Entering the Prison: Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) as Imperial Labor Film
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
... formal recognition of political status.” Meanwhile, caught between the political action of the prisoners and the marching orders given to them by the state, the prison guards merely labor. They are victims of both political agendas, precisely because they have none to call their own. As mentioned...
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