... of political speech, enunciation, and utterance. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 precarity precarious life prayer Jean-Luc Nancy political speech Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. 1978 . “Music and Language: A Fragment.” In Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music , translated...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... exacerbated a culture war over education and speech related to race and how the University of Florida capitulated to an ambitious governor ultimately bent on synchronizing Florida's university system to his political goals. To highlight the singularity of this episode, the article compares these events...

...Thom Dancer This essay reflects on the recent debates about the value (or lack of value) of symptomatic, deep, and critical reading in the context of the decline of the political doctrine of secularism. It aims to frame the literary critical questions about surface and depth, subjectivity...

... autonomy, which results in the confrontation of two different political speeches, Anti- gone’s ritual and Creon’s edict: [It] is the absence of the gods on stage that probably makes the play the most secular form in the Sophoclean corpus. . . . Nei- ther Antigone nor Creon relies...

...- lated the expectations of consensus and homogeneity that make true dialogue difficult to achieve in a large number of public, academic discussions. What began as a lecture on the limits of political speech in general was transformed, by Bruguera, into a demonstration of the specific limits...

..., and prohibition to an act of political speech and an affirmation of autonomy.11 Though the results of its leadership have been mixed, those in Turkey and the West who have accused the AKP of hiding a politics of shari’a law within the Trojan horse of multi­ culturalist rhetoric have overstated their case...

... political life not in the exclusion of our creaturely, embodied vulnerability, but precisely in the active acceptance of and continual dwelling with this vulnerability. The argument requires careful attention to what is and is not meant by language, speech, speechlessness, and muteness questions that would...

... the unclassifiable speeches will somehow unsettle political stasis, as well as highlight links between the military-industrial complex of Potter’s speech and its more globalized operation today. And yet, the Potter speech recreation was performed not for crowds of interested...

... in terms that originated in academic debates on the political implications of canons, curricula, and faculty structures, before finding their way into broader public discourse— cancel culture , wokeness , political correctness , deplatforming , identity politics , cultural Marxism, and critical race...

... entrusted with delegated authority. Speech-act theory, disembodied from the social formations that allow speech acts to achieve their iterative and performative authority, will always fail (according to Bourdieu) to account fully for their effectiveness in the social and political spheres. As a way...

... on quotes from two speeches, both of which attempt to articulate a plan of action for liberal politics: “Liberal Fascism” comes from H. G. Wells, and “The Politics of Meaning” is derived (in part) from comments made by Hillary Clinton on April 7, 1993...

... be formulated by nature a s a p ublic affair, a nd i n defense of itself, by speaking up through science; for this it depends on science giving itself over to the articulative service of nature open and receptive to it by speaking up in the unsettled manner of speech delivered in public. Let us see what links...

... of music. Musicology is indeed a “political act” (Bohlman 1993 ), as scholars choose what sounds to study and what to ignore, what to praise and what to dismiss; we would add the update that, in this, musicology is also a speciesist act. Any number of composers and musicologists hold that songbirds...

... a different position on what had happened to the Armenians than my own. I asked Jack what her position was and he said it was “middle of the road.” I paused on the phone and then asked, “Is she a nationalist?” He replied, “Well, no her politics aren’t right wing.” I...

...-twentieth century literary critics who promoted the idea, like F. O. Matthiessen, and their relation to Cold War politics. Since the 1990s, he has focused on revising the idea of American exceptionalism and criticizing its service to imperialism. He has also been a prominent institution-builder...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Calvet Louis-Jean . 1998 . Language Wars and Linguistic Politics . Translated by Petheram Michael . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Castells Manuel . 2000 . The Rise of the Network Society . Cambridge : Wiley...

... by emphasizing what the poem holds in common with other discourses. I analyze the intersection between the lyric and four concepts borrowed from sociology, moral philosophy, political theory, and economics: the everyday, the multitude, capital, and person. Stressing the lyric’s compatibility rather than its...

... and that we can address the great questions of the tradition of moral and political philosophy. He taught Aristotle and Hume and Kant. But Rawls happened to be a person who was very shy and very aloof, and he just couldn’t—he had a speech impediment and was a very shy man—go...

... encounter with Jacques Derrida and deconstruction in the 1960s, his development of rhetorical reading in the company of Paul de Man in the 1970s and 1980s, and his engagement with ethics and community in 1990s and 2000s, stretching to include his most recent critical reflections on contemporary US politics...