...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...

...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...

...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 to be...

...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 for an...

...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...

...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...

...Basit Kareem Iqbal In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty...

... Jacob Appelbaum’s Autonomy Cube (2014)—an installation that initiates a public Wi-Fi hotspot using the open-source anonymizing Tor network. Allowing connected viewers to retain their independence from internet surveillance, this work is often discussed as offering a model of resistance in terms of self...

..., dust is as much a standard of representation as it is one object of representation among others. In the most extreme case, it becomes the defining medium of inscription. In Paul Celan’s work, the attempt to articulate a rhetoric of negation that will put language on something other than a dusty footing...

...Ryan Crawford Abstract This essay takes the last pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at its word: at the moment the narrator achieves a definitive conception of the work he intends to write, he sees society composed, not of people of flesh and blood, but of monsters fit for a museum of...

...Amy Fung-yi Lee; Kiran Chandra Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 I opened up this project to Kiran with a rather structured idea about process—a blind drawing game whose rules resembled Exquisite Corpse. When I work on my own, I usually work within boundaries that describe...

... situate Deleuze's dis- course on art within the framework of aesthetics understood as a discipline having its own objects, methods and schools. For me, the term aesthetics does not refer to a discipline. It does not designate a branch of philosophy or a knowledge of works of art. Aesthetics is an...

... University of California, Berkeley. He has translated several of Gi- anni Vattimo’s books into English (including After Christianity) and has written several articles on the religious turn in postmodern philosophy. These concern the work of Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy and place special emphasis on...

... degree in art history before becoming a psychiatrist; in his study of the works he had collected, he identified six basic drives or urges that give rise to image making: an expressive urge, the urge to play, an ornamental urge, an ordering tendency, a tendency to imitate, and the need for...

..., The Despair of the Physical: Materialism in the Work of George Santayana, Wallace Stevens, and Henri Matisse, which focuses on two divergent accounts of materialism within the turn-of the-century modernism. RADMILA DJORDJEVIC holds a BA in Comparative Literature from New York...

... of what a truly critical modernism could have been. The book, in its sheer heft and its numerous and stunning plates, succeeds in conveying what Edwards admits is a personal faith in the importance of the work of Wyndham Lewis. Edwards neatly divides Lewis' aesthetic experiments into...

... my current work on Internet art in the context of more recent discussions of the globalised art world, and to tackle head-on the issue of its aesthet- ics, in circumstances that often seem to work against aesthetic appreciation. On the face of it, the subject of netart's aesthetic seems...

... of aggrieved victimhood that latches on to readily identifiable targets of reaction. 6 1. While White Working Class often appears capitalized in punditry, which reifies it as a concrete and homogeneous group of people, for the rest of this review I prefer to use white without...

..., Cambridge Companion series). He is currently at work on a book dealing with Epicurean materialism in 18th-century aesthetics, and an edition of Norbert Elias' unpublished manuscripts on humor and laughter. KERSTIN BEHNKE holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford...

... Benedetto often speaks of her work in the language of encoun- ter: sometimes a handwritten note, sometimes a list, sometimes a photograph with writing on its surface. These textual encounters set up a confrontation with the spectator by means of the text’s “self-refl exive voice,” a voice that...