...Bonnie Ruberg A review of McGlotten Shaka , Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality ( Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 ). Cited in the text as vi . Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Cruising Dystopia The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection...

...- ly realized, are not substitutes for direct experience of the natural world, more and more people are turning to virtual worlds not only for entertainment but also for challenge, companionship, and even civic participation—why not embrace and encourage game design in forms...

... will Ferguson: Face of Time between Haeckel and Bergson 117 necessitate situating it in terms of his well-known distinction be- tween the “actual” and the “virtual,” a conceptual couplet most fully worked out in Matter and Memory. The actual, according to Bergson, refers to the “extensive...

... nds its virtual Elysium in the profi le pages of online dating sites.3 At fi rst glance, queer social media, including hookup apps such as Grindr and Scruff, would appear to be no dif- ferent.4 They too seem the refuge and breeding ground for neolib- eral subjectivity, communication...

... : Harvard University Press , 2019 . Berland Jody . Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2019 . Berlant Lauren , and Stewart Kathleen . The Hundreds . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Cahill James Leo...

..., but they are no less singularized for that reason. Each style must be understood as the individuation of a virtual dif- ferentiation, completely shifting the terms of the debate. Guattari and Deleuze no longer make the cut between the Imag- inary, Symbolic, and Real, concepts that follow an anthropomor- phic...

...). Lisa Freinkel, Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). BOOKS RECEIVED 229 Paul Giles, Virtual Americas: Transnational...

... ). And at the conceptual level, expression is virtually ubiquitous, often as the operative principle intrinsic in a number of other concepts. For example, in what constitutes an unspoken yet unmistakable reference to Expressionism in Philosophy , Deleuze deploys expression so as to articulate one of the most distinctive...

... being raised. One can see, again, how the prospect of radical virtualization bestows on the com- puter a position that is strictly homologous to that of God in the Malebrancheian occasionalism: since the computer coordinates the relationship between my mind...

... writing of any kind. Semblance turns out to be as unavoidable as the virtual and eventual shattering of that semblance, whether one adopts the alternative of the tractate or the system. Allowing the language of the tractate to resonate within his commentary on the intentions of the “great philosophers...

... Press, 2010. Iwamura, Jane Naomi. Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and Ameri- can Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Jackson, Cassandra. Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body. New York: Routledge, 2011. Kadish, Doris Y., and Françoise Massardier...

... would not reinforce what Deleuze would term “a morphology of living matter,” in his rereading of René Thom’s geometrical interventions. 31 Not only life/death would require displacement; so would inside/outside, external/internal, immanence/transcendence, and actual/virtual. Such dualisms retain form...

... action, allowing for the system not to simply react to the forces impinging on it any given moment. Bergsonism is not a conservative doctrine of physical race memory, but it does give the ontological status of virtual existence to the past. That is, it does create the possibility of spiritual...

... and Guattari’s affirmation that absolute singularity opens onto the infinite, to boundless freedom, because it is not bound to meaning systems. Philosophy should make connections between singularities, in the virtual; it is speculative, fabulatory. Art’s “uselessness,” similarly, lies in its singularity, excess...

... and elucidate Hegel’s text). Pahl’s particular methodological innovation lies in an acute attunement to the dis- tinctions and interconnections between different levels that exist in the Phenomenology: “the syncopating measures of poetic rhythm, the virtual present of theatrical...

... current research interests cluster around affect, performancer, diy aesthetics, sex, precarity, and social change. His book Virtual Intimacies: Media and Queer Sociality will appear in 2013 from suny Press. julie beth napolin is assistant professor of Digital Humanities...

... to interpretation by the surveillant infrastructures that control online flows of communication. Yet Groys perhaps overemphasizes the intentionality of the autopoietic act, wherein internet users consciously select and organize information to produce a “virtual avatar” (129). Indeed, one’s data profile is rarely...

... virtual absolute general will. Since a pure resolution [reine Aufl ösung] of the political problem is impossible, we have to make do with the approximation to this practical x [der Approximation die- ses praktischen x]. Because the political imperative is categorical, and can be realized...

... the opposite. Again, to take a single example, in Alexei Shulgin's 54 JULIAN STALLABRASS WVVIN Art Medal (1995-7), pre-existing sites are linked together on a page that awards them virtual medals for their artistic appeal.2 The artist "draws" links between these sites, presenting...

... complicated, abusive, and oppressive realities also, made even more hideous by racism and sexism. And, of course, they were virtual zoos, where people paid to wander from one exotic beast to the next. Despite the abundance of good medicine, I have few romantic fantasies about hospitals. Disability...