Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7522631
Ali Altaf Mian
The presence-absence of the trace, which one should not even call its ambiguity but rather its play (for the word “ambiguity” requires the logic of presence, even when it begins to disobey that logic), carries in itself the problems of the letter and the spirit, of body and soul, and of all the problems whose primary affinity we have recalled. All dualisms, all theories of immortality of the soul or of the spirit, as well as all monisms, spiritualist or materialist, dialectical or vulgar, are the unique theme of a metaphysics whose entire history was compelled to strive toward the reduction of the trace. The subordination of the trace to the full presence summed up in the
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7522565
A. Abeysekara
Abstract:Critiques of the concept of "Protestant Buddhism" claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity ("Protestantism") in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial conceptions of history, time, and religious practice. This story of temporality is staked on the question of "influence," which has a genealogy that includes not just colonial, missionary, liberal politics but also contemporary legal-political questions about foreign influence on democracy and sovereignty. This article argues that preoccupation with influence inscribes an a priori ontology that already separates the past from the present. This makes it difficult to understand the relation between temporality and a form of life in a discursive tradition, as the question of influence grounds the ostensive plurality of religions in some preexisting ontological difference. Once religion as such is understood as an object of influence, the temporality of the form, which is encountered within power—that is, the formations of particular sensibilities and dispositions within the coherence of a tradition—is rendered marginal if not irrelevant to the embodied life of religion. The article calls for renewed attention to the temporality of sensibilities to think about the temporality of a form of life within the limits of a tradition.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7522576
J. Mieszkowski
Abstract:Tracing a trajectory of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient atomists to the late twentieth century, this essay explores the surprisingly consistent role that dust has played in the conceptualization of language. In Lucretius, Sophocles, and the New Testament, 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 comes perilously close to demonstrating that all verse unfolds under the aegis of the word dust. The essay closes by suggesting that Jorie Graham's poetry offers a new perspective on what it would mean to read the surface of a text, particularly when that text is dusty.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7522609
Elisa Eva Russian, Elisa Eva Illouz
Abstract:In this interview the Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz retraces her relationship to critical theory from the 1980s to the present. The conversation explores the reasons behind Illouz's initial reluctance to adopt a critical stance toward capitalism, her rediscovery of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment in the early 2000s, and her recent call for a postnormative critique.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7522620
E. Taborda, Jesús Gutiérrez
graphic narratives. Based in Brazil, he engages digital experiments, intuitive rhythms, optical illusions, mathematical patterns, and other ludic forms. qui parle june 2019 vol. 28 no. 1 182
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Pub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.3898/NEWF:96/97.08.2019
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 an abiding preoccupation of Hall's work. In particular, because blackness (or its notion) is never innocent, this essay explores the consequences of a certain undecidability that attends any encounter between representation and difference. And it is this X—its shaping of black meaning and life—that alerts us to an unsettling tension in Hall's work that no knowledge or encounter can fill and that leads to a purely negative reassessment of the racial imperatives of certain truths.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7200298
Jessica Ruffin, Simone Stirner
Abstract:In this experimental essay authors and friends Jessica Ruffin and Simone Stirner explore the question of friendship through a dialogic exchange, engaging with friendship as a theoretical concept alongside their own personal histories and relationships. Emails exchanged beneath and between the dialogue lay bare the various registers of friendship and collaboration.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7200265
Thomas Laqueur, Alexander Nehamas
Abstract:This essay is an exchange between friends and scholars Thomas Laqueur and Alexander Nehamas. Laqueur offers a number of possible answers to the question "Why is a dog a man's best friend?" as he explicates and analyzes a varied historical record of archaeological evidence, philosophy, art, and literature. Laqueur builds on Aristotle's conception of friendship as he explores what types of friendships we humans have with dogs and how such relationships may benefit both species. Nehamas responds to Laqueur's text and Aristotle on philia as he traces the limits of human relationships with dogs as well as human friends.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7200188
Thomas Schestag
Abstract:This essay gathers two contributions to conferences or panels delivered in 2015 and 2016. The liminal figure relating both incompletes is the Sammler, as discussed in two texts by Walter Benjamin: "Eduard Fuchs, der Sammler und der Historiker" ("Eduard Fuchs: Collector and Historian") and "Ich packe meine Bibliothek aus: Eine Rede über das Sammeln" ("Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Collecting").
摘要:本文收集了2015年和2016年在会议或小组会议上发表的两篇论文。与这两种不完整相关的界限人物是萨姆勒，正如沃尔特·本雅明在两篇文章中所讨论的:《爱德华·富克斯:收藏家和历史学家》和《Ich packke meine Bibliothek aus: Eine Rede ber das Sammeln》(《打开我的图书馆:关于收藏的谈话》)。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-7200287
Courtney Sato
Abstract:During the interwar period, internationalists declared Hawai'i the "new Geneva" of the Pacific: a locus for regional diplomacy, social reform, and cross-cultural exchange. This article examines the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) as part of the emerging Honolulu-based Pan-Pacific internationalist movement. The PPWA enacted social reform grounded in ideals of antiracism, affective connection, and cross-cultural exchange. The article recuperates "friendship" in two ways: first, as a fundamental tenet of Pacific interwar internationalist praxis, and second, as an analytic attuned to internationalism's entanglements with empire, race, gender, and sexuality. Despite the PPWA's progressive antiracist liberal cosmopolitanism, the ideology and practice of international and interracial friendship often consolidated, rather than dismantled, hierarchies of race, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality.
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