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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
Published: 01 March 2019
... the ambiguous situation of water, and of law. What is impossible, what threatens life, must still be arrogated or performed. Philip cites Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx throughout her afterword, and there is a Derridean way of understanding this paradoxical conjuncture as a performative invocation...
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Afro-philo-sonic Fictions: Black Sound Studies after the Millennium

Tavia Nyong'o
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739938
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the Algerian-born philosopher Jacques Derrida. Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence, however limited his textual focus ultimately proves, is a necessary prolegomena to the revamped sonic ontology Weheliye will ultimately propose. Derrida critiqued the privileging of speech over writing in Western...
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White Mythologies

Ren Ellis Neyra
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901752
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the metaphors, “l’usure,” that Jacques Derrida introduces almost upon opening his 1971 essay “La mythologie blanche” (“White Mythology,” 1974). 1 “L’usure” (also, “usury”) retraces the French usage and registers a question of value—of surplus and of ethics, even—about philosophy’s circulation of metaphors...
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Of Race: The Exorbitant Du Bois

Barnor Hesse
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 14–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626728
Published: 01 July 2016
... meaning.” 17 It arises in textual and political contexts where a decision has to be made as to what is meant by something that remains undecided, and there is no preestablished rule or lexicon for deriving that decision. As Derrida observes, “this undecidable opens up the field of decision...
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Modern Dermabrasions: Black/Brown after Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901738
Published: 01 July 2022
... Derrida, must have some purchase on the new or the impossible , 1 enacting what David Marriott characterizes as “a radical untimeliness that entails a leap” by producing an event that “is mostly incomprehensible to what came before.” 2 However relative its inventiveness may be, any new book...
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Dark Horse Poetics: Lévi-Strauss, Benítez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology

Rose Réjouis
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642791
Published: 01 March 2014
... between the figure of the bricoleur and that of the engineer is not an opposition between non-Western and Western epistemology but a move toward unveiling myths central to Western epistemology. Jacques Derrida notes that Lévi-Strauss is saying that everyone's work is, like the bricoleur's, derivative...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901569
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the Puerto Rican demonstrations in the summer of 2019 by drawing not so much on the body of their text, The Wolfman’s Magic Word: A Cryptonomy , as on its margins, on Jacques Derrida’s also cryptically titled foreword to their work, “ Fors .” 51 While Abraham and Torok seek in their work to decipher...
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Tasks without Solutions: Why Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Matters to Translation Culture and Caribbean Poetics

Rose Réjouis
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826470
Published: 01 November 2014
... and Benjamin as participating in the “anthropo-theological mimesis” Derrida defines in a reading of Kant might be a useful way to answer such a query. Derrida offers this useful paradigm about translating culture: “Mimesis here is not the representation of one thing by another, the relation of resemblance...
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Still Life

Richard Iton
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665416
Published: 01 March 2013
... Tubby's dub exoskeleton's vis-à-vis the narrative authority and autonomy of the lead vocal; John Coltrane's and postbebop's renderings of show tunes and pop standards; Jacques Derrida's deconstructions of “Europe” and “philosophy”; and Grace Jones's literal and figurative command to “Pull up to the bumper...
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The (Anti)Social Life of a Digital Journal in the Era of Global Info-Capitalism

Ashwani Sharma
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626788
Published: 01 July 2016
... is not limited to one of nostalgia and the archive; as Jacques Derrida has conceived, writing is the always already machinic supplement in the production of thought. Paper is multimedia. 19 The (hybrid) print journal's future is possibly one of creating the subterranean conditions to materialize...
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“Comradeship of the More Advanced Races”: Marcus Garvey and the Brotherhood Movement in Britain, 1913–14

Robert A. Hill
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665434
Published: 01 March 2013
... Cunard Welcomed at Colourful Function,” Daily Gleaner , 29 July 1932; “Miss Nancy Cunard Sails for New York; Sends Message of Thanks for Many Courtesies Received Here,” Daily Gleaner , 30 July 1932. 93 The phrase “the politics of friendship” comes from Jacques Derrida, “The Politics...
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Introduction: On the Archaeologies of Black Memory

David Scott
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-v
Published: 01 June 2008
... inspired by Jacques Derrida’s meditation on the inescapable paradoxes of archivization, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). For a fine reading of this essay, see Carolyn Steedman, “Something She Called a Fever: Michelet, Derrida...
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The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia

Fredrik Thomasson
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604478
Published: 01 July 2020
.... 35 That an archive can have a decisive influence on the life of a historian is well documented. Jacques Derrida’s definition of a mal d’archive (often translated as “archive fever”) reflects on the close relationship many historians form with the records they work with. 36 Derrida’s...
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Come and Gone

Stephen Best
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341777
Published: 01 November 2015
... their concerns, evenly, as if in an inverse mirror, between the deconstructively elusive and the historically grounded: on the one hand, finding themselves keen to discuss lives that are “spectral,” in the sense that Jacques Derrida gives us to understand that word, that is, departing at the moment...
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In the Penumbra of the Antillean Hallucination

G. A. E. Griffin
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156738
Published: 01 July 2017
... by the fact, as Derrida writes, that “it is always necessary to be more than one [voice] in order to speak, several voices are necessary for that.” 72 Ventriloquism is made impossible by the traces/voices/names it must utilize, elicit, and learn as it tries to take possession of those it would render...
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Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage

Wendy Knepper
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 70–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-70
Published: 01 October 2006
... up the world, especially the world of objects, to new and oppositional readings. Any act of bricolage potentially challenges and/or disruptively transforms the closed concept of wholeness, an idea articulated by Jacques Derrida who sees “every discourse as bricoleur...
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Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

Patricia Saunders
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-63
Published: 01 June 2008
... of that discomfort we mourn. Not only does the content discomfort, the form is discomforting as well. In the accompanying essay, “Notanda,” I quote from Derrida’s Specters of Marx, in which he talks of mourning, specters of the dead, and the need to know the exact place where the bodies...
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Silence and Specters: The British Empire and the 1904 Haitian Commemorations of Independence

Jack Daniel Webb
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374406
Published: 01 March 2019
... is concerned with the ways ideas may become less relevant, but this does not mean that ideas lose their potential to regain their significance. In his thesis on the “specter of Marx,” Jacques Derrida emphasizes this point following the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The formal end...
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Ghosts in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Angie Cruz’s Soledad

Susan C. Méndez
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724023
Published: 01 March 2022
... a discourse, ghosts perform theoretical work and engender meaning in cultural texts. Blanco and Peeren discuss how Sigmund Freud and Theodor Adorno rejected the figure of the ghost and its meaning in their works, but they also focus on Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx as a pivotal text that rehabilitates...
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George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle

Nadi Edwards
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-59
Published: 01 March 2002
... and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France,” 168–69). It is also interesting to note Derrida’s reference to Heidegger’s defi nition of usage as “the dis- tribution (Aushandigung: dis-maintenance) of presencing (das Anwesens) into disorder (in den Un-fug). Usage...
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