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"Prisoner\u27s Dilemma" vs. William S. Burroughs\u27s "Controller\u27s Dilemma": A Discursive Motif in the Repression of Working-Class Self-Organization
Get PDFTo declare that the refusal to proscribe the "problems of the origin of language" and the affirmation of "geneticism - or a certain generativism" are "not chance encounters" imply a certain historical determination, namely that such demystification of origin and conceptualization of "geneticism" were occurring in relation to - though not generated by or generating - the crisis of Keynesian world capitalism in the late 1960s when Noam Chomsky and Jacques Derrida were both writing. Such determination is premised on a historical search for origins - although Derrida and Chomsky\u27s subject is linguistics, we may substitute it with the self-organization of the working class, whose multilateral struggles made possible that global crisis to begin with - necessitates us to advance a theory of generation ("a certain geneticism - or a certain generativism"), a succession of historical links and relationships that connect one form of revolutionary working-class self-organization to another. And, just as Derrida proposed the way in which Rousseau problematizes the origin of linguistics as Chomsky recounted it in Cartesian Linguistics, we can propose the way in which the revolutionary commons problematizes the origin of the workers\u27 councils as, for instance, theorized by Sergio Bologna\u27s "Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers\u27 Council Movement", a seminal article published in 1972
“Bonnie und Kleid”: Female Terrorists and the Hysterical Feminine
Get PDFThis paper will explore the ways in which the feminine, in particular the hysterical feminine, is invoked in media representations of violent women in order to contain the threat they pose. I shall draw on a number of mainstream German newspapers, both leftwing, liberal “quality” journals, such as Der Spiegel and, to a lesser extent, Stern, and more reactionary papers, such as Bild and Die Welt. It is my contention that although these journals may seem to be of different quality, the same paradigms are being mobilized with regard to the violent female terrorist: paradigms that are firmly anchored in the German popular imagination of the 1970s
Created Lives: The Evolution of Literary Biography
Get PDFThe danger when discussing evolution, in any field, is to imagine that it is a linear process—a teleology. In this paper, I will discuss the developments, and new forms, which have appeared in the genre of literary biography over the past half-century. However, anyone who takes the Times Literary Supplement or London Review of Books, or who has browsed the shelves of Waterstones—the UK\u27s leading bookseller—recently, will be aware that documentary biography, in a form that has not changed significantly since Boswell\u27s Life of Johnson, remains dominant. We must think in terms of what the palaeontologist Yoel Rak calls the "Star Wars Bar" theory of evolution (McKie 38-67)—that Neanderthals and documentary biographers exist alongside Homo sapiens and New Journalists, until the Darwinian fitness of one or other ceases to be sufficient and that species, or form, becomes extinct
"A million years...just for us": Subversive fixity in Peter Weir\u27s Picnic at Hanging Rock
Get PDFDonna Haraway\u27s "Cyborg Manifesto" identifies the potential for marginalised sub-groups to resist oppression by "seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other". In the field of visual representation, this agenda can be applied to the aesthetic syntax by which this \u27Othering\u27 is deployed, namely to the formal parameters and construction of marginalised identities. Peter Weir\u27s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) through its romanticised imagery, and narrative of Victorian sexual repression, ostensibly sets up a classical heterosexist ideology of woman as enigmatic Other; her presence a narratively unthreatening interval of erotic contemplation. I argue a re-reading of the film where this phallocentric project becomes self-defeating as its tools turn against itself
Catherine Labio, Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 193 pp.
Get PDFFinding the Poem - Modern Gaelic Verse and the Contact Zone
No full textRather than "celebrating the joyous carnival of cultural differences", contemporary translation and publication practices dominating the contact zone which is Gaelic verse might well be evidence of bilingualism\u27s "uglier face" resulting in "some kind of double monolingualism." (Grutman 224) This article will argue towards the re-evaluation of translation in this particular contact zone as a site of friction and differences between languages and cultures which is in need of translation and publication practices which resist the illusion of one-to-one equivalence
Becoming Origin(al): Deterritorialization and Postcolonial Theory from the Caribbean
Get PDF"Becoming Origin(al)" alludes to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari\u27s idea of "becoming minor" in Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. This article will discuss Deleuze and Guattari\u27s ideas in full, but the article will first set out to provide a context for thinking about postcolonial theory in relation to the Caribbean, with specific reference to Edouard Glissant\u27s Caribbean Discourse and Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant\u27s In Praise of Creoleness.
Angelopoulos\u27 Ulysses Gaze: Where the Old meets the New
Get PDFIn this essay I will attempt to outline how Angelopoulos deals with the concepts of time and memory through an approach that does not treat the image as a \u27given\u27 to be illustrated, but as an open field where questions on perception and representation are asked. This leads me to question the director\u27s insistence on the use of long takes and their apparent function as an attempt to trace meaning in what the director sees as an era of confusion after the collapse of the grand narratives of the Left. Deleuze\u27s concept of the time image comes as one of the useful terms to speak about the film in the attempt to trace its originality
The Kuleshov Effect and the Death of the Auteur
Get PDFThe \u27Kuleshov Effect\u27 has long been regarded as being both of seminal importance in the development of cinema in the 1920s and yet also as being so ambiguous and difficult to interpret that it has almost become all things to all people. This article shall utilise the Kuleshov Effect as its own palimpsest to try to trace connections between Soviet montage cinema, the politique des auteurs of the French Nouvelle Vague and Barthes\u27 essay on \u27The Death of the Author\u27.