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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 239–255.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Christoph Menke Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 The Aesthetic Possibility of the Work of Art christoph menke Translated by Seth Thorn The Possibility and Actuality of Art A familiar way of starting to think about art is to submit it to the standard form of philosophical...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alya Ansari Abstract This essay foregrounds the hermeneutic purchase of totality in contemporary literary criticism. Responding to the recent proliferation of the “gig work” novel, the essay takes up two interrelated lines of inquiry: How might we rethink the conceptual affordances of “totality...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 105–135.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to overcome Hegel—the move, as Derrida put it, from restricted to general economy, a move that determines the composition, among other writings, of The Accursed Share —is thus ultimately identified by Bataille with a movement beyond the principle of work as governing our actuality. This is not, however...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Keith P. Feldman Abstract This essay considers how the graphic arts of Leila Abdelrazaq give form to Palestine’s contemporary worldliness and to the worldliness of Palestinian difference. It argues that Abdelrazaq’s work illustrates the entanglement of diaspora, memory, and futurity within...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 245–266.
Published: 01 June 2023
... work by the artist duo Claire Fontaine—who deploy Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of market exchangism in their work—in relation to twentieth-century intellectual debates around representation, abstraction, and social synthesis, the essay develops a model of totality in a descriptive rather than...
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Published: 01 June 2025
Fig. 1. Maureen Catbagan, Abang-guard Work Habits (ARoS) (2018). More
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 5–38.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Loïc Wacquant Copyright © 2007 Qui Parle 2007 FRENCH WORKING-CLASS BANLIEUES AND BLACK AMERICAN GHETTO: FROM CONFLATION TO COMPARISON1 Line Wacquant For Stanley Cohen The purpose of this article is to lay out the rudiments of a compar- ative sociology of the structures...
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Published: 01 June 2025
Fig. 3. Lenape Indian wigwam shelter (reconstruction) made with tulip tree bark. Inwood Hill Park, New York City. The Photo Works/Alamy stock photo. More
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Philip Balboni Abstract This essay works to clarify Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, arguing that this clarification has serious implications not only for Said’s project of “secular criticism” but also for understanding the workings of what he called the “critical...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 355–430.
Published: 01 December 2018
...David Marriott Abstract This essay is a study of the notion of representation—its relation to difference, politics, diaspora, otherness, truth, and doxa—within Stuart Hall’s work. The reevaluation of this concept in terms of dialectics and différance, or of blackness and innocence, is shown...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as a microcosm of a deindustrialized Northern Irish economy where labor has left the factory and become conjoined to the disciplinary power of the state, either as police work or as care work. In this way, Hunger attends to the “spirit” of what Lenin called the “labor aristocracy,” here reduced to the work...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Marxism that, concomitant with major shifts in global capitalism, set the scene for subsequent scholarly accounts of culture that have privileged the fragment, the supplement, the remainder, the site, the margins, and the like over against the totality. The second part consists of an analysis of two works...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 157–197.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Daniel Katz Abstract This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book . Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jenny Sharpe Abstract This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 321–354.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Laura U. Marks Abstract This essay brings a process approach to the One-Many problem as treated in Gilles Deleuze’s thought, by focusing on the work of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muhammad al-Shīrāzī (Shiraz, 1571–1640). First acknowledging Avicenna’s concept of the univocity of being (attributed to John Duns...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... experience alongside C. Nadia Seremetakis’s work in Greece, which details the work of stillness and memory, the deathly pain of history, as sites where the cultivation of noncontemporaneous forms of life are brought into relief. For Wittgenstein language and its articulation is the crucible in which form...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Brett Zehner Abstract This methodologically important essay aims to trace a genealogical account of Herbert Simon’s media philosophy and to contest the histories of artificial intelligence that overlook the organizational capacities of computational models. As Simon’s work demonstrates, humans...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 367–386.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Djordje Popović Abstract The act of writing ensures that exile is never permanent in the mind of the writer even if it is an abiding feature of his or her reality. Dubravka Ugrešić explores this paradox in much of her work, suggesting that migrant writers experience “double exile”—first on account...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
... with science, technology, and innovation, the essay shows how Arimah’s work creates its own metagenre, which functions as a paranormal frame that disrupts the common sense of existing interpretive frameworks of progress and difference. The paranormal in Arimah’s work is a space where the illegible significance...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Brandon S. Callender Abstract Beginning with James Baldwin’s critique of The Exorcist in The Devil Finds Work (1976) and ending with campy allusions to the film in the works of three contemporary black gay authors, this article argues that the aesthetics of possession helps articulate queer forms...
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