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Retracing Heinrich Barth: A Slideshow
December 15, 2009 – 12:47 am
Passages of the Self: Georges Perec and the Infra-ordinary
December 11, 2009 – 12:30 am
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Alex Haber
Cornell University
“This reform of the self whose criterion is a nature – but a nature that was never given and has never appeared as such in the human individual, whatever his age – all naturally takes on the appearance of a stripping away of previous education, established habits, […]
Altered Spaces: Calvino, Fenoglio and the Odyssey of the Italian Partisan
December 11, 2009 – 12:29 am
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Barry Ryan
University College Cork
The central argument of Italo Calvino’s brief 1946 essay “Omero antimilitarista”[i] is “the Marxist line that the Iliad represents the criticism of the troops against the officers arrogant quarrels, and the Odyssey portrays the problematic return that awaits all soldiers and partisans” (McLaughlin 30). Of equal […]
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December 11, 2009 – 12:28 am
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Bruno Bosteels
Cornell University
On two very different occasions, Gilles Deleuze offered an evaluation of the philosophy of Alain Badiou as it is summed up in Being and Event. The first of these evaluations covers two dense pages of What Is Philosophy?, written in collaboration with Félix Guattari. Here, long before […]
Haussmannization and the Conquest of Place: Configuring Parisian Global Influence in the Second Empire (1852-1870)
December 11, 2009 – 12:26 am
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Niamh Sweeney
University College Cork
Paris of the Second Empire, habitually characterized as a site of transition where the unsettling of social, cultural and spatial boundaries announces the tensions of early modernity, is irrevocably associated with the process of urban renovation known, after Engels, as Haussmannization (1:559). Indeed, this process, whose […]