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“Forgettings That Want to be Remembered” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jennifer Walklate
This paper hypothesises that museums are fundamentally haunted, and hauntological, institutions, and argues that understanding the spectre is necessary to understanding the true position and potent...
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J.M. Coetzee and the Aesthetics of Disgust Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chris Danta
This article contends that we can learn much about how Coetzee tells stories by examining how he treats the subject of disgust. Coetzee represents disgust so often in his fiction, I argue, because ...
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“A Cognitive Listening” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sarah Hayden
This paper proposes a theory of text on-screen as “unvoiceover.” It addresses both the case for captioning as social good and the affordances (aesthetic, affective) of writing in or over the moving...
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notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-11-16
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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O Friends No Friend Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Andrew Haas
Our concept of politics – especially democracy – presupposes a principle of friendship, but our principle of friendship comes out of an understanding of the friend. However, from the Greeks to Derr...
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General Issue I 2023 Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Salah El Moncef
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
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Resisting Academic Neoliberalism Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Mark Davis
Abstract What are the prospects for critique in an age of collapse? Collapsing ecosystems, “democratic decay,” vicious “culture wars,” and changing knowledge economies all impact the conditions of possibility for academic critique. Universities have become bastions of “academic neoliberalism,” driven by managerialism, rankings, and punishing overwork. Terms such as “postcritique” capture the possibility
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“I Just Care so Much About the Koalas” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Emily McAvan
Abstract In this article, using the example of koalas in the 2019–20 bushfires, I argue that our embodied encounters with animals are conditioned by an ethical address that can be found in and outside of language, which demands a fostering of life which must be environmental as well as physical. I posit that animals do have a face in the sense that Levinas has given us, and that our ethical responses
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The Ideological Aesthetic Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Udith Dematagoda, Christos Asomatos
Abstract In this paper we outline a theory that explicates the hypertrophy of the “political” in relation to contemporary art, literature, and culture. Beginning with a critique of Nicholas Bourriaud’s 2016 work The Exform, we interrogate Bourriaud’s engagement with contemporary art and Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology. We approach Bourriaud’s Althusserian source material through a consideration
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Can The Human Speak? Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Jishnu Guha-Majumdar
Abstract How does one give voice to the unspeakable, inhuman violence that shapes the present, and what remains of humanity in its wake? Adriana Cavarero offers an answer that roots human speech in embodied vulnerability, in contrast to philosophical emphases on disembodied rationality. In the face of what she calls horrorism, which puts humans in proximity to animality, she calls for resuscitating
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Enjoyment With(Out) Exception Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Benjamin Nicoll
Abstract While considerations of gender predominate in scholarly accounts of why and how people derive pleasure from videogame play, the question of sex remains either undertheorized or conspicuously absent from the conversation. Drawing on Jacques Lacan’s formulae of sexuation, this article argues that the jouissance (enjoyment) of videogame play is sexed rather than gendered. It theorizes two logics
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Navigating The Psychoanalytic Symbol Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Tom Goodwin
Abstract Nicolas Abraham (1919–75) rethinks the symbol as the very fabric of being. The author examines how this notion challenges the limitations of Husserl’s phenomenology and its reliance on a transcendental ego that can apprehend hyletic data in its purity. For Abraham, the symbol is worldly and resonates with its emergence from intersubjective foundations to constitute subjectivity impurely as
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The Symbol Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Nicolas Abraham, Tom Goodwin
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
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Notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-09-13
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
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Witnessing the Anthropocene Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michael Richardson, Magdalena Zolkos
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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Witnessing the Anthropocene Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michael Richardson, Magdalena Zolkos
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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Communicative Pathways Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Amanda Kearney
Abstract Testimony and witnessing require sentiency, not humanity. Sentiency is distinguished here as the capacity to experience energetic coalescing between elements/entities/presences and to derive a response from such encounters. Taking as its focal point the kincentric ecology and lifeworld of Yanyuwa Country in the south-west Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, this paper strives to expand
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Stone as Witness Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Sarah Collins
Abstract The depiction of stones that speak has long been used as a literary and philosophical device to reflect upon the limitations of human language (i.e., language as a petrification of thought and action). Jacques Rancière has described stone’s capacity to bear witness as a form of “mute speech,” noting how “any stone can also be language,” as a part of the “testimony that mute things bear to
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Aesthetics of Witnessing [Bears] in Late Humanity Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Casey Boyle
Abstract In response to climate change and collapse, this essay explores both the necessity of and impossibility to witness disasters that are unending and unrelenting. Such disaster is understood generally as the Anthropocene but, for the purpose of this project, includes a more particular inflection, Late Humanity. This inflection is an attempt to hone in on a confluence of critical discussions found
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Documenting Wordless Testimony Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jon L. Pitt
Abstract This article considers what it means to give plants a voice as witnesses to nuclear events. It examines two texts that attempt to represent the nonverbal testimony of irradiated plants through a hybrid approach of text and image: Sugihara Rieko’s Pilgrimage to the A-Bombed Trees (Hibakuju junrei, 2015) and Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur’s The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded
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Witnessing, Trans-“Species” Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Meera Atkinson
Abstract Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman
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“Apocalypse Blindness,” Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future-Oriented Affect Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Christopher John Müller
Abstract In the Anglo-American cultural sphere, the growing awareness of global warming and ecocide has coincided with the proliferation of a much discussed, post-apocalyptic imaginary that transports us to uninhabitable planetary futures. These “fictions,” as E. Ann Kaplan notes in a discussion of their mobilising potential, act as “memories for the future” which make us “identify with future selves
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“Notes on the Index” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Svea Braeunert
Abstract Contemporary art is increasingly reverting to notions of the index to image the slow changes and catastrophic destructions caused by climate breakdown. Looking at Gideon Mendel’s photo series Watermarks (since 2011), Tomonari Nishikawa’s short film sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014), and Santiago Sierra’s installation 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air (2019)
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Breathing Climate Crises Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Blanche Verlie, Astrida Neimanis
Abstract In this paper, we consider climate change as a systemic respiratory crisis, and explore how breath can function as a mode of witnessing climate catastrophe. We build on feminist environmental humanities methodologies of embodied attunement to advance a more-than-human witnessing of climate change. We suggest that a feminist “conspiratorial” witnessing of breath(lessness) can afford an embodied
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notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-08-03
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Cécile Malaspina
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
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Semantic Noise and Conceptual Stagnation in Natural Language Processing Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Sonia de Jager
Abstract Semantic noise, the effect ensuing from the denotative and thus functional variability exhibited by different terms in different contexts, is a common concern in natural language processing (NLP). While unarguably problematic in specific applications (e.g., certain translation tasks), the main argument of this paper is that failing to observe this linguistic matter of fact as a generative
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From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Cécile Malaspina
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
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The Concept of Noise Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Steven Sands, John J. Ratey
Abstract “NOISE” is a term we are using to describe a complex and distressing aspect of the bodily and cognitive experience of many very ill psychiatric patients. By “noise,” we mean an internally experienced state of crowding and confusion created by a variety of stimuli, the quantity, intensity and unpredictability of which make it difficult for individuals so afflicted to tolerate and organize their
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Intelligence as a Border Activity Between the Modelled and the Unmodelled Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Yagmur Denizhan
Abstract The common conception of intelligence in terms of information processing has its origin in cybernetics and information technology. Its import into cognitive science and the humanities not only generates theoretical problems, but also constitutes the basis of methods and policies that have adverse impacts on intelligent agents. In order to demonstrate why this technological conception of intelligence
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The Intelligence of Player Habits and Reflexivity in Magic: The Gathering Arena Limited Draft Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Feng Zhu
Abstract This paper considers how players of Magic: The Gathering (MTG) limited draft turn their acquired gameplay style or disposition (their MTG “gamer habitus”), with respect to drafting, into an object of knowledge. This is done in order to then consciously rework it, to respond to new formats and to the changing metagame. I will focus on a particular case study: how streamer Chord_O_Calls' instructional
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Looking Through the Algorithmic Unconscious Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Luca Possati
Abstract This paper concerns the role of the unconscious in technology. The central thesis is that there exists an experience of non-acceptance and failed incorporation of technology, which (a) does not depend on the technical engineering dimension of the artifact but (b) instead concerns the relationship between the human unconscious and the artifact. This thesis is supported and developed through
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Noisiness, the Stuff of Thought Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Sha Xin Wei
Abstract Michel Serres said that history is the propagation of effects, saying in his conversations with Bruno Latour, “we experience time as much in our inner senses as externally in nature, as much as le temps of history as le temps of weather,” characterized more by turbulence than by Euclidean geometry. Setting out from Serres’ nautical meditation on noise, guided by Giuseppe Longo’s and interlocutors’
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Creativity Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 J. Augustus Bacigalupi
Abstract This paper explores how adaptive creativity is continuously generated and sustained in living systems. The philosophical frame and motivations for this investigation will be introduced by juxtaposing an actual creative process with current cybernetic efforts to automate creativity. Past and present process philosophers that have critiqued the implicit commitments of these contemporary techniques
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The Mental State of Noise Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Catherine Malabou
Abstract What is the influence of music on the brain? And in what cases can this influence cause dysfunctioning? Among the different examples analyzed by Oliver Sacks, one is particularly significant: the phenomenon of synesthesia. Synesthesia is connected to having an extra one that associates different kinds of sensory information, music, and color. It can sometimes transform hearing music as a painful
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Pierced Eardrums Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Patrick ffrench
Abstract Emerging in the wake of the broad paradigm of semiotics in discourses in the human sciences in France in the 1960s, and from other developments and emergent tendencies in philosophy and critical theory, a cluster of works in French thought of the 1970s, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, and Roland Barthes, investigate the liminal spaces and dynamic relations between
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Noise Strike Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Naomi Waltham-Smith
Abstract Noise is said to disturb, disorient, and confuse, but this article looks specifically at the figure of noise “striking” – rather than, say, a rumbling or murmuring disquiet – us to examine its potential to unsettle European liberal hegemonic norms of ordering society and the inequalities they produce. In particular, it focuses on noisy protest, rebellion, and riot which might “awaken” citizens
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Topos of Noise Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Inigo Wilkins
Abstract This paper focuses on the significance of the concept of noise for cognition and computation. The concept of noise was massively transformed in the twentieth century with the advent of information theory, cybernetics, and computer science, all of which provide formal accounts of information and noise centrally concerned with contingency. We show how the concept has changed from these classical
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Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Yuk Hui
Abstract In this article I attempt to sketch out what we might call an axiology of contingency, namely the study of the value of contingency. The triadic structure of the article follows the paraphrased epigraph from the Gospel of St John, where the word “word” is replaced with “contingency.” Although I play on the words of John in a Hegelian spirit, what is outlined here is an – admittedly brief –
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The Shredded Hologram Rose Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Rosa Menkman
Abstract Inspired by Fragments of a Hologram Rose, a 1977 science fiction short story by William Gibson, this 3D narrative work explores the violent stories of standardisation embedded in 3D composite objects. The full story is accessible online at: https://beyondresolution.info/Shredded-Hologram-Rose
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notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-06-21
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
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Philosophy with Clarice Lispector Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 fernanda negrete
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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Philosophy with Clarice Lispector Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Fernanda Negrete
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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To Write is to Think [The Is-] Being Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Abstract This article presents Clarice Lispector’s view on writing, showing that for her literature is the writing of the act of writing itself. In question is the writing of the act while acting, the is-being of existence. In this sense, Lispector described her writing as the writing of a screaming object, as abstract writing, almost a painting. Following some central passages of different works,
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Tracing an Ethics of Risk With Clarice Lispector Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Fernanda Negrete
Abstract This essay explores the sense and embrace of risk in Clarice Lispector’s writing. Beginning with a newspaper contribution from her Crônicas, the essay foregrounds the dimension of repetitive tracing to transmit the notion that the risk of living is ongoing, inescapably, but that there is a possibility of stepping forward to embrace this risk differently. The essay then turns to a scene that
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Lispector’s Halo Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Daae Jung, João Paulo Guimarães
Abstract In her last novella, The Hour of the Star, Lispector makes plain that the brilliance of life – any life whatever – lies in its capacity to endlessly contemplate itself and that as such it is inseparable from its mode of contemplation. As we will suggest in this article, Lispector’s view of life as living contemplation resonates with Giorgio Agamben’s conception of being as potentiality. In
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We are all the Smallest Woman in the World Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Luz Horne, translated by Jane Brodie
Abstract This essay explores the place in Clarice Lispector’s literature that seeks to touch a primary ground of the living with a language that exceeds the symbolic in order to read it from an anthropocenic, posthuman, and feminist present. It argues that the story “A menor mulher do mundo” (Laços de família, 1960) takes to an extreme what happens in all of Lispector’s literature at the point that
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“When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Rodante van der Waal, Kim Schoof, Aukje van Rooden
Abstract Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue
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In the Shadows of the Cosmos Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Tyler Correia
Abstract Clarice Lispector’s texts are a peculiar combination of socio-political analysis and cosmological excess. Commentators on her works have explored either of these two dimensions but have not yet brought them into a singular dialogue. I argue that Lispector insists upon an ethical responsibility in her refusal to disregard the microcosm of a “marginal” life even within a cosmos of her own creation
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Affective Consisting in Lispector’s an apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Irving Goh
Abstract At first glance, Clarice Lispector’s An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1969) might read like a regression from her earlier feminist and anti-Hegelian Passion According to G.H. (1964), given the female protagonist Lóri’s deference in large part to the male character Ulisses. I argue in this essay that any suspicion of such a philosophical letdown can be easily dispelled if we attend
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“To Enter the Core of Death” Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Marta Aleksandrowicz
Abstract This essay explores figurations of death in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Água Viva. As the other side of life, death in these novels is tied to the work of the unconscious desire that introduces generative rupture to the narrators’ experience of being, thinking, and writing. In making one wander at the limits of thought, language, and being, death also signals the encounter
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The Failure of Language Amidst the Joy of Grace Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Colby Dickinson
Abstract For Clarice Lispector, language is a sacrament on dazzling display in her work, where the celebration of writing and the emergence of a creative consciousness through the act of writing about writing access an immanent experience of grace beyond any historical religious sensibility. In this, she simultaneously accesses the “great potency of potentiality” that is an experience of freedom undoing
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All of Nothing Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Krzysztof Ziarek
Abstract The essay develops a parallax between Lispector and Heidegger with regard to the question of being: being not as an idea or a concept, or as anything substantive, but being in the spatio-temporal sense of being in being, of the event which lets each instant of “in being” take place. Instantiating this proximity, the essay focuses on dis-humanization and the role that openness to nothingness
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Clarice Lispector’s Philosophy of Time Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Paula Marchesini
Abstract Clarice Lispector puts forth nothing less than a complete philosophy of time in her writings, that is, a cohesive philosophical examination of what time is, of its physics and metaphysics, of how humans and animals perceive time, and even an innovative aesthetic theory in which time is the inspiring force giving rise to literary and artistic creation. Her view of time is unique in the Western
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Could it be that what I’m writing to you is Behind Thought? Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Fernanda Negrete
Abstract This text gives an account of the experience of reading Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva in the form of a brief dialogue with the text. It foregrounds the writing voice’s address of a second person and the attention this address brings to the acts of writing and reading that hold the two pronouns in relation, producing at once an infinite and nonexistent distance from being to being. The dialogue
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Notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-04-18
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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SOCIAL PROPERTY IN THE COCHABAMBA WATER WAR, BOLIVIA 2000 Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Massimiliano Tomba
Abstract The Cochabamba water war in 2000 was the first water war of the twenty-first century. During the mobilizations in Bolivia, a factory workers’ manifesto read: “We don’t want private property nor state property, but self-management and social property.” The social practices of many Cochabambinos and Cochabambinas did not defend water as an object. They supported forms of life in common and a
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MÈRE MÉTAPHORE Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Eszter Timár
Abstract Bridging feminist new materialism and feminist phenomenology, Astrida Neimanis’s volume, Bodies of Water, discusses water in terms of nurturing maternality based on a figural reservoir of what she terms “amniotics” and “planetary breastmilk” in order to posit this maternality as the material condition of the embodiment of life. In this article I show that this imagery is a construction consistently
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notes on the contributors Angelaki Pub Date : 2023-02-21
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2023)
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