...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted in the...

...David Faflik However much he might be identified with cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall has imparted to students from a range of interdisciplines a means of interpretation that is rooted, at last, in metaphor. Hall's writing made imaginative use of language for reasons other than the...

... overestimates our ability to answer the question, who are the real political animals? Through a reading of Hannah Arendt's critique of human rights, the essay argues that the traditional assumption that political status is available only to human beings relies on the totalizing power of metaphor to confuse...

... indexical realism faces its obsolescence. However, the film provides a new representational metaphor through both its name and its depiction of three-dimensionality, namely, Plato's chora . The chora 's significance as a metaphysical figure—an unintelligible space that gives form to matter—erupts in...

... regimes in controlling Europe’s borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the “fortress” in critical accounts of the European border regime. Building on existing criticisms of the metaphorical Fortress Europe, this article proposes an alternative political imaginary of the...

..., and potentially ruptures the scales of the empirical. Privileging performativity, gesture, resonance, and metaphor over the authority and purported veridicality of Western empirical science, the poetics of black feminism investigated here is instructive for a general theory of representation...

..., celebrating the artifacts of technology as means of salvation also promises a paradise of transparency—without mediation and delay. But the metaphors that restrict the ersatz world of technical media to bodily...

.... Mysticism, in this second sense, is the thought of the passage of meta- 6516 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:2 / sheet 228 of 284 phor: of how ‘‘what is’’ doubles itself to become meaningful, representable, or figured. Metaphor is the thought of...

... . Cazeaux Clive . 2007 . Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida . New York : Routledge . doi:10.4324/9780203326831 . Chandler Nahum Dimitri . 2000 . “ Originary Displacement .” Boundary 2 27 , no. 3 : 249 – 86 . doi:10.1215/01903659-27-3-249 . de Certeau...

... Corrie Award for Courage in the Teaching of Writing. Dušan I. Bjelić is a professor in the Department of Criminology at the Uni- versity of Southern Maine at Portland. He is coeditor, with Obrad Savić, of Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (MIT Press, 2002) and...

... contributed a chapter to Black Intersectionalities (2013). She has two new books in the Phi- losophy and Race series: Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being (2013), a study of philosophical metaphors in African American literature, and Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy...

... scholar Steven Winter explains: “The law as narrative metaphor fails either to ground or to account for the operation of the legal system. Those who understand law and other social meanings as grounded only and entirely in narrative face a problem of circularity: How do differ- ent members of the...

... and colonized was a not insignificant problem for colonial governance in the Dutch East Indies.8 Jonathan Goldberg excavated a similar dynamic in the Spanish conquest of Panama.9 Siobhan Somerville established the centrality of racial metaphors and analogies in the medicalization of the...

... sensations (scratch) disused minds’ excavation metaphor (matter for thought) play-words armoured toys (cut killer lines) brain slam-dunk (junk-yard punk bard) WORD-cry centralise intelligence create cretinous populace dry-eye-cry in white-wallet wash dopest flow-streams at the...

... repeated in Hopper’s work, but has its metaphorical inception, I think, in the early painting remarked on above.To look is the act that we and they at whom we look are required to perform, and it is this act that is reimagined in...

... Muñoz describes Vaginal Davis achieving through performative disidentification with normative formations of “gay”: Davis, Muñoz writes, “clears out a space, deterritorializing it and then reoc- cupying it with queer and black bodies.”11 Muñoz’s hopeful metaphor of space-clearing...

... worry, you have your cell and are welcome to phone back with updates to your situation. So much for safety, cellular or otherwise. No matter whether the other person answers the phone, cellular technology is remarkable for the way it proliferates the metaphoric sites of desire...

... prefer. —Immanuel Wallerstein, ‘‘America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor in The Decline of American Power The enemy is terrorism—premeditated, politically motivated violence...

... of Davidson’s substantive positions on intention, agency, representation, metaphor, mental causation, psychological states, and so forth. Morris, in other words, uses his blind drawings to find ways to depict the structure of...

... (the past) by refusing its status as lost within its discourse. The figure of the cannibal, originally a metaphor for the necrological work of historiography, thus returns in Cer- teau’s texts in the place of the New...