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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 145–176.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... And yet, this anecdote suggests something altogether differ-
ent: namely, that the knowledge of one's seropositivity is performative
— itself infectious, Moreover, such an elision suggests that AIDS
discourse has a life beyond the material reality of the virus that im...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 263–278.
Published: 01 June 2012
... as
a historian like Burton would. Articulating the theme of visibility
differently, George is in the process of going blind, a literal effect
of the virus on his immune system and a metaphorical result of his
inability to successfully negotiate discourses about the virus. This is
fi rst revealed when...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 June 2021
... intent is no longer to predict where things are going but to adapt as new situations erupt. It is no wonder that calls for supra-agility come precisely when, due to a global pandemic, our breathing is being intensely regimented. If the virus includes all those who breathe as potentially infected...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 309–318.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . 3 ☾ ☾ ☾ This audacity of Nancy should not surprise us. To experience its force is to return again and again to the series of last reflections that he left us from a time when death and suffering “communized us”—to use his phrase from Un trop humain virus —at a pan-demic scale: “le...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 December 2007
... not by medium, artist,
or period, but rather by tactics, profiling three under the headings
of "virus," "feedback," and "avatar." The intent is clearly to provide
something like a handbook for contemporary critics, students, and
producers of media-based work, to whom the one...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 35–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-a- world, which I will call acosmism.3 I will describe
acosmism as a direct eff ect of colonialism, understood as an expropri-
ating virus. Leaning on Claude Lévi- Strauss, I will show that the ulti-
mate goal of the Western virus is to transform what is other into the
same, this transformation...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., a prominent leitmotif across the Critical Inquiry blog posts as well as among the contributions to a later issue of Crisis and Critique , titled “The Year of the Virus,” which nevertheless expanded pandemic thinking by five-hundred-some fresh pages—many penned by theorists who had already had their say...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2013
... unironic comment on the
ways permanent states of emergency, exception, and occupation
are paradigmatic of modern sovereignty. The inevitable outbreak
of the rage virus is brutally suppressed by soldiers who kill person
and zombie alike in an effort to reinstate a semblance...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... 6. See, e.g., Villarreal, “Are Viruses Alive?” ; Van Regenmortel and Mahy, “Emerging Issues in Virus Taxonomy” ; and Postgate, Microbes and Man . 7. See Geroulanos and Meyers, Human Body . 8. See Scott, Seeing Like a State ; and Gissen, Subnature . 9. “A knockout...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... when he begins to frequent movie houses, where he is
infected with the virus of speed:
In the dark theater, amid the smooching couples and the
DRIVEN 149
comforting rattle of the projector, Bernard...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 June 2011
... be a virus, and “defi nitions” would matter
less than entry words.
Indiscipline
This point of departure is a point of arrival, or maybe of non-
arrival. This might come from a very simple remark. Mastering
the code, protocol, or rhetoric of an epistemic discipline confers
freedom, confi dence, effi...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 178–192.
Published: 01 December 2013
...-
ing, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers
we have not yet thought of.”1 For a few weeks Hawking enjoyed a
surge of attention from news media, and in the years since then he
has troubled the popular press two or three more times with simi-
lar climacterics over our...
Journal Article
The New Conflict of the Faculties and Functions: Quasi-Causality and Serendipity in the Anthropocene
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... within me a state of vulnerability, for example, to a virus that happens to pass nearby—so this reflex leads me to react by putting on more clothes or closing a window. This little event need not involve my consciousness, or my unconscious, strictly speaking, yet it can contribute to the development...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 June 2003
...' stresses mobility in the face of fast-mov-
ing technological and social change.17 The issue is put clearly by
RTMark:
the flexibility of corporate power, its lack of a center,
comes at a price: it has no brain. It may be as tenacious
as a virus, but it also has the intelligence...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... by transfer a capacity of distinc-
tive distribution without the adhesion of marks particular to their
first support. The process might be compared to stamping, or to
vaccination, which keeps and imports a memory of the virus with-
out its virulence. The quality, or the qualifying use...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and Kennedy, Houston Blue , 208–12 . 34. Watson, Race and the Houston Police Department , 81, 84 . 33. Clayson, Freedom Is Not Enough ; Jones, “Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself.” 32. McCord et al., Life Styles in the Black Ghetto , 42 . 31. Houston Chronicle , “Virus...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56.
Published: 01 December 2004
... tenacious,
and continue to dominate both popular representations of Africa
and contemporary writing on Third World economies.26 Such viru-
lence owes a great deal to two historical presuppositions. First,
development economics espoused a generalized conception of the
less developed country...
