Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9669481
Delali Kumavie
Abstract:This essay argues that Lesley Nneka Arimah’s collection of short stories, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, evokes paraworlds that reveal and contend with the world and its norms. Examining the collection’s entwinement of magical, mythical, and animist modes 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 of Blackness exists. These para-worlds, the essay contends, are paranormal because they function as parallel, ancillary, and barricading structures that reveal the spatial and temporal continuums that order the world. Viewing the norm as the world-constituting structures instantiated in 1492, the essay contends that Arimah’s para-world functions as a continuum to reveal the ever-present structures of violence.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9669503
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9669514
Kathleen Powers
Abstract:The prion is a self-replicating protein that infects the central nervous system. This essay applies Georges Canguilhem’s criterion for life, biological normativity, to the prion for the purpose of arguing that the existence of the prion within living systems requires attention to how biological matter uses space. Without the involvement of DNA, the prion protein is physically capable of transforming nonprion proteins into prion proteins—a capacity afforded by the specific characteristics of the energy landscape it propagates within, which in turn is determined by the specific arrangement of atoms in its molecular architecture. Like a hammer that is a mirror, the prion compresses and folds surrounding proteins, making its environment identical to itself. This essay studies how information exchange occurs for the prion for the purpose of arguing for a philosophy of biology premised on the analysis of space with attention to form over the analysis of language with attention to genetic code.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9395268
Marquis Bey
Abstract:This essay attempts to imagine what nonbinary gender might be through an autotheoretical and imaginative email exchange between the author, as "X," and the author's gender as nonbinary. Indeed, theorized conversationally throughout are the difficulties and potentialities of nonbinary gender, or nonbinariness as a refusal of gender.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9395323
Jane Komori
Mark W. Driscoll’s second book from Duke University Press, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven, is a historical monograph concerning English, French, and US imperialism and resistance in late Qing China and late Edo and earlyMeiji Japan (roughly 1800–1920). The book builds on and significantly extends the focus of Driscoll’s previous work on Japanese imperialism. These include his first book, Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945 (2010), as well as his translation of Katsuei Yuasa’s 1934 and 1935 novels concerning the culture of Japanese imperialism, Kannani and Document of Flames (2005). With his first book, Driscoll made his name for an idiosyncratic writing style and the application of diverse concepts from critical theory—especially biopolitics and necropolitics—to interpret the expansion of Japanese imperialism in the early twentieth century and challenge the boundaries of his field. TheWhites Are Enemies of
马克·w·德里斯科尔(Mark W. Driscoll)由杜克大学出版社出版的第二本书《白人是天堂的敌人》(The Whites Are The Enemies of Heaven)是一部历史专著，讲述了清末中国、江户晚期和明治初期(大约1800-1920年)英、法、美帝国主义和抵抗运动。这本书建立在德里斯科尔之前关于日本帝国主义的著作的基础上，并极大地扩展了其关注的焦点。其中包括他的第一本书《绝对的色情，绝对的怪诞:1895-1945年日本帝国主义中的生者，死者和亡灵》(2010)，以及他翻译的汤浅克荣1934年和1935年关于日本帝国主义文化的小说《kanannani》和《火焰文件》(2005)。在他的第一本书中，德里斯科尔以一种独特的写作风格和对批判理论中各种概念的应用——尤其是生命政治和死亡政治——来解释20世纪初日本帝国主义的扩张，并挑战他的研究领域的界限而闻名。白人是……的敌人
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9395345
B. S. Hinojosa
Writing primarily for an audience of medievalists, in his brief afterword to the collection The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages, Fredric Jameson remarks: “Suffice it to say then that allegory, on my reading of it, is always intimately related to a crisis in representation, and that the medieval period is an extraordinary laboratory in which to witness its elaborations.”1 Almost a decade later, in his Allegory and Ideology, Jameson expands on and thus clarifies these remarks. Moving across time and space, from late antique biblical hermeneutics to twenty-first-century world literature, he shows the relevance of this seemingly archaic form to modernity and its crises of representation. For Jameson, allegory—as opposed to allegoresis and symbolic interpretation—promises hermeneutic simplicity and unitary meaning but delivers multiplicity and disruption:
詹姆逊在《中世纪的合法性》(the Legitimacy of Middle Ages)文集的简短后记中，主要是写给中世纪学者的，他说:“我认为，寓言总是与再现危机密切相关，而中世纪是见证其阐述的非凡实验室，这就足够了。近十年后，詹姆逊在他的《寓言与意识形态》一书中对这些言论进行了扩展和澄清。穿越时空，从古代圣经解释学到21世纪的世界文学，他展示了这种看似古老的形式与现代性及其表现危机的相关性。对于詹姆逊来说，寓言——相对于寓言和象征解释——承诺了解释学上的简单性和单一意义，但却传递了多样性和破坏性:
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-8955885
P. Myers
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-8955892
K. Bain
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