{"title":"Beauvoir and Sartre as Public Intellectuals in 2022","authors":"W. McBride","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"38 1","pages":"884 - 891"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85663840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Authenticity and the Concept of the Public in Kierkegaard and Heidegger","authors":"Yi-Ping Ong","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"commentaries","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"14 1","pages":"872 - 883"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89518869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence","authors":"William Egginton, Yi-Ping Ong","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"16 1","pages":"853 - 854"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88795822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Maurice Blanchot’s first novel, Thomas l’Obscur , contains a very intense episode in which the protagonist encounters the night. Close attention to the language and development of this episode indicates a proximity to Descartes’ method of scepticism. However, Blanchot significantly extends and suspends Descartes’ method, which leads to a reconfiguration of thought itself in such a way that it places in question the notions of sameness and difference as well as the relation of thought to literature and existence.
{"title":"The Night Itself: Blanchot, Descartes","authors":"W. S. Allen","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Maurice Blanchot’s first novel, Thomas l’Obscur , contains a very intense episode in which the protagonist encounters the night. Close attention to the language and development of this episode indicates a proximity to Descartes’ method of scepticism. However, Blanchot significantly extends and suspends Descartes’ method, which leads to a reconfiguration of thought itself in such a way that it places in question the notions of sameness and difference as well as the relation of thought to literature and existence.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":"814 - 840"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74409733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Building on fifteen years translating Catherine Malabou’s thought from French to English, this article pursues my exploration of her signature plasticity within translation studies. It reflects on the ways Malabou draws on art to name plasticity, as a new thought that emerged for her in philosophy. Her recent book Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée (2020) considers what to do with that which remains unthought precisely because it is unseen. Now that contemporary art is at last making the clitoris visible, offering it representation, I ask, does Malabou’s philosophical analysis offer a new art of clitoridean translation?
{"title":"Pleasure Unthought in Translation","authors":"C. Shread","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Building on fifteen years translating Catherine Malabou’s thought from French to English, this article pursues my exploration of her signature plasticity within translation studies. It reflects on the ways Malabou draws on art to name plasticity, as a new thought that emerged for her in philosophy. Her recent book Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée (2020) considers what to do with that which remains unthought precisely because it is unseen. Now that contemporary art is at last making the clitoris visible, offering it representation, I ask, does Malabou’s philosophical analysis offer a new art of clitoridean translation?","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"737 - 754"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77983436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Over the past twenty-five years, structural changes within French corporate life have given rise to an increase in workplace suicide. Waves of scholarly work, as well as novels and films, have emerged in response. Catherine Malabou, with her focus on work, time, and death, has so far been absent from these conversations. While exploring these problems in Malabou’s writing, this article considers their resonance in the worker-suicide film Corporate (2017). In doing so, it situates the crisis of workplace suicide, and its aestheticization in film, against emerging positions on the plasticity of the brain and the logic of human value.
{"title":"The Deadly Time of Capitalism: Suicide and Plasticity in the French Workplace","authors":"Anne M. Mulhall","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the past twenty-five years, structural changes within French corporate life have given rise to an increase in workplace suicide. Waves of scholarly work, as well as novels and films, have emerged in response. Catherine Malabou, with her focus on work, time, and death, has so far been absent from these conversations. While exploring these problems in Malabou’s writing, this article considers their resonance in the worker-suicide film Corporate (2017). In doing so, it situates the crisis of workplace suicide, and its aestheticization in film, against emerging positions on the plasticity of the brain and the logic of human value.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"15 1","pages":"778 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75490831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}