...Andrew Moisey Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Considering the Desire to Mark Our Buried Nuclear Waste Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant andrew moisey I am now in this place where you should never come. We call it Onkalo. Onkalo means “hiding place.” In my...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Erratum In Andrew Moisey’s article “Considering the Desire to Mark Our Bur- ied Nuclear Waste: Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,” published in Qui Parle 20.2, the fi rst full paragraph on p. 120, which continues onto p. 121...

...Jeffrey Moro Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 The trick about breath is that what goes in does not come out. Alveoli, dendritic sacs in the lungs, collect oxygen and exchange it for carbon dioxide, the fuel and waste of cells respiring at microscopic scale. Breath mediates...

.... It has taken some surprising forms. At first, we think we’re equipped. We adapt. Ventilation. Fewer solid foods, more sugary drinks. Nap. Bath. Nightwalking. It’s not that the nights are cool. But sleep drags around its waste. Soon it begets baffling nightmares. Fragments in yellow, red, fluorescent...

... regularly sold on these occasions,” but de- cides to acquire instead “Ephraim Jones’s decaying ‘Waste Book’ from 1742, found in Brown’s garret since his death” (j, 7:251). Pages of the Journal written after the auction are fi lled with ex- tracts from Jones’s waste book...

... projects for long-term nuclear waste markers. Embedded in this second question is a third, more abstract one: Could affect theory really, as Silverman hypothesizes it eventually will, ground a new ontology of the self and a new ethics. To try to answer either part of this question now...

.... It doesn’t stir the heart like a true wild rose. ✶ ✶ ✶ The police and health departments want to fi nd out who’s been dumping human waste in the streets of Venice and Santa Monica. ✶ ✶ ✶ Water trickles down on clean white fl ower, star of fi...

... us and what place that puts us in— us both collectively and in the sense of the modern and contemporary self. jd: This seems to be precisely the impetus behind Containment, the documentary you’ve been working on with Robb Moss. Its subject, nuclear waste...

... Contributors 331 Not to Work: Disability and Capitalism” (Monthly Review, 2004), “Mili- tary Waste in Our Drinking Water” (with Astra Taylor, 2006-nominated for a Project Censored Award 2007), and “Is It Possible to Be a Consci- entious Meat Eater?” (Alternet, February 18, 2009, with Alexander Tay- lor...

... for a waste that will become gavage for fi gure B that will in turn pass once more to waste as intake for fi gure C who will fi nally, in the alimentary logic of the construction, excrete the waste of the waste of others who have been bonded to the self. Digestive form is thus put to the service of vio...

... not to correct the original but to live again in its form and content, leaving in successive layers record of reformations and digressions as they come to me” ( hd , 427). 18 In Duncan’s view, this is in stark contrast to the collaborative mutilation that Eliot and Pound inflicted on The Waste Land...

... side eff ects, and disavowed waste products in Beck’s theory of “refl exive [not refl ective] moderni- ty” will recognize the way he puns here on “die Folge” as that which follows and is passed on to others (the verb that repeats in German is abwälzen—to pass on, shift [blame, responsibility...

... and geometric Truth, / The knowledge that endures,” and on “their high privilege of lasting life, / Exempt from all internal injury” (“pbf,” 64– 67). He falls asleep and dreams of “an Arabian waste” and, in it, an Arab, who is bearing a lance, a shell, and a stone. In the dream the Arab tells...

..., Shakespeare, and Dickens—why do we need scholarship? We know that the French Revolution, the Civil War, and Winston Churchill existed—what’s the point of hundreds or even thousands of books and articles explaining these subjects yet again? Why waste time with secondary or indi- rect knowledge about...

...- actualization (DR, 59). At this point, Moon cannot but psychologize: I want to take the frequency with which their work reverts to (sometimes extreme) physical violence as an index of how hard each of them had to struggle in and through their work to pro- duce the particular version of “wasted...

... to capitalism, colonialism, and climate change, renders them simply as fodder for academic profiteering. And all the while, the radical histories that one might have hoped to find in The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven lie in waste somewhere in the Pacific, like the military detritus that promises only to grow...

... , 501) that so lays waste to people that they eventually become unrecognizable—as though they had aged, not according to any time of human measure, but had instead undergone “a metamorphosis more appropriate to an insect” ( tr , 505). “I had the impression,” says the narrator, ranged round those he...

... inhabited were imaged as barren waste worlds of concrete and excrement, clotheslines and crowded rooms. “These photographs extended an optic of visibility and surveillance that had its origins in slavery and the administered logic of the plantation” ( wl , 21). Another image: a young black girl, no older...

...) lend themselves in turn to a partitioning through which the splitting up of completeness and incompleteness proliferates ad infinitum: recurrent interventions into what seems to be the breaking away ( Abfall ) from history as a narrative of progression, but also as waste ( Abfall ), a waste...

... of gardening, or certainly its most provocative—ever since he proposed that gardeners add the seemingly paradoxical cultivation of fallow or “waste” lands to their repertoire.3 In the same essay, “La friche apprivoisée,” Clément suggests that in order to work with (rather than...