Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-188
Author(s):  
Mia Gaudern
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Full Circle ◽  
Special Value

What does it mean to say that Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon’s poetry accords a special value to obsoleteness, against the backdrop of the etymological fallacy? Obsoleteness demonstrates that language is always in contention, thus destabilising both the poet’s seeming control of language and their critics’ seeming penetration of it. But the speculation, difficulty, and pedantry that is the result does not abstract this poetry beyond use: rather, its appreciation of obsoleteness constitutes a new commitment to the uses of language poetic form leaves behind, turning etymological virtuosity into poetic virtue. By way of Derrida and a recent book on Auden by Andrew W. Hass, this study is brought full circle: coming to terms with obsoleteness is understood as a coming to terms with synchrony, which gave the etymological fallacy the momentum Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon carry through into poems that show us how language is both always beyond them and constantly being reclaimed.

Coming Full Circle

ASHA Leader ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-72
Author(s):  
Natalie Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Full Circle

The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hurley ◽  
Michael ONeill
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Form

Christian-Jewish Dialogue in the Land of Sick Imagination. On the Margins of Waldemar Chrostowski’s Book Kościół, Żydzi, Polska

2010 ◽  
pp. 475-482
Author(s):  
Janusz Salamon, SJ
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
Conflict Of Interests ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Church

The article is a polemic with the pessimistic assessment of the current state of the Christian-Jewish dialog presented by Waldemar Chrostowski in his recent book Kościół, Żydzi, Polska [The Church, Jews, Poland]. The author criticizes Rev. Chrostowski for defining the Christian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish relations in terms of strict opposition and unavoidable conflict of interests, and for putting all blame on Jews, while absolving Christians from all their past and present sins which contributed to the tensions between the two communities.

Perdre la mesure… Or, The Ecologics of Extinction

CounterText ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Stefan Herbrechter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Human Race ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Adequate Measurement ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

The article takes its cue from Olivier Rey's recent book Une question de taille (a question of size) and develops the idea of humanity ‘losing its measure, or scale’ in the context of contemporary ecological catastrophe. It seems true that the current level of global threats, from climate change to asteroids, has produced a culture of ambient ‘species angst’ living in more or less constant fear about the survival of the ‘human race’, biodiversity, the planet, the solar system. This indeed means that the idea of a cosmos and a cosmology may no longer be an adequate ‘measurement’ for scaling the so far inconceivable, namely a thoroughly postanthropocentric world picture. The question of scale is thus shown to be connected to the necessity of developing a new sense of proportion, an eco-logic that would do justice to both, things human and nonhuman. Through a reading of the recent science fiction film Interstellar, this article aims to illustrate the dilemma and the resulting stalemate between two contemporary ‘alternatives’ that inform the film: does humanity's future lie in self-abandoning or in self-surpassing, in investing in conservation or in exoplanets? The article puts forward a critique of both of these ‘ecologics’ and instead shows how they depend on a dubious attempt by humans to ‘argue themselves out of the picture’, while leaving their anthropocentric premises more or less intact.

The Common as Body Without Organs

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Vidar Thorsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Social Factory ◽  
The Common

The paper explores the relation of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work to that of Deleuze and Guattari. The main focus is on Hardt and Negri's concept of ‘the common’ as developed in their most recent book Commonwealth. It is argued that the common can complement what Nicholas Thoburn terms the ‘minor’ characteristics of Deleuze's political thinking while also surpassing certain limitations posed by Hardt and Negri's own previous emphasis on ‘autonomy-in-production’. With reference to Marx's notion of real subsumption and early workerism's social-factory thesis, the discussion circles around showing how a distinction between capital and the common can provide a basis for what Alberto Toscano calls ‘antagonistic separation’ from capital in a more effective way than can the classical capital–labour distinction. To this end, it is demonstrated how the common might benefit from being understood in light of Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual apparatus, with reference primarily to the ‘body without organs’ of Anti-Oedipus. It is argued that the common as body without organs, now understood as constituting its own ‘social production’ separate from the BwO of capital, can provide a new basis for antagonistic separation from capital. Of fundamental importance is how the common potentially invents a novel regime of qualitative valorisation, distinct from capital's limitation to quantity and scarcity.

Recent Book

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book
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