Showing papers in "parallax in 2019"
TL;DR: Cisgender has gained popular traction as a concept that names the normative relationship between gender identity and embodiment, articulated in shorthand as a "match" between sex and gender.
Abstract: Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015, ‘cisgender’ has gained popular traction as a concept that names the normative relationship between gender identity and embodiment, articulated in shorthand as a ‘match’ between sex and gender. In its entry, the OED defines cisgender as ‘designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at birth’. Within scholarly and activist discourses, cisgender’s critical force is seen to reside in its potential to make visible dominant identity formations whose modes of privilege rely upon an unacknowledged claim to universality. Cisgender is thus seen to make space for multiple and varied configurations between gender and the body, while also enabling critical analyses of power exercised upon trans and gender variant subjects. Yet, despite its wide circulation, there are few critical examinations of the concept to date. A. Finn Enke, the notable exception, calls attention to the assumption of gender stability that underlies ‘cis’, and the consequent displacement of difference, dissonance, and incongruity to its opposing term—‘trans’. As Enke provocatively remarks: ‘cisgender arrives to affirm not only that it is possible for one to stay a woman, but also that one is “born a woman” after all’.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a more antagonistic couple than these two, the former signifying abnormality and excess, the latter signifying abnormal and excessive, are presented. But can there be at face value, despite an unmistakable ring of phonetic proximity, despite the strong similarity of the two words, a more combinatorial couple than the two?
Abstract: Monster and demonstration: can there be at face value, despite an unmistakable ring of phonetic proximity, a more antagonistic couple than these two, the former signifying abnormality and excess, t...
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TL;DR: Evelyne Grossman: This issue of Europe dedicated to your work brings together [rassemble], as you know, contributors from various countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, the United States, England, Egypt...).
Abstract: Evelyne Grossman: This issue of Europe dedicated to your work brings together [rassemble], as you know, contributors from various countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, the United States, England, Egypt...
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TL;DR: The authors stage an encounter between certain moments of textual transgression, articulated in differing disciplinary registers, which intersect at the "exorbitant" 1 terminus marked by the figure of the "sinister" speaker.
Abstract: This paper stages an encounter between certain moments of textual transgression, articulated in differing disciplinary registers, which intersect at the ‘exorbitant’1 terminus marked by the figure ...
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TL;DR: The prison has become a replica of a chicken coop/Modern/Industrial/To tame/To produce fragments of metal/A production line/A factory/We have become a version of caged baby chickens/The prison had become a copy of a coop as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: To tame/To produce fragments of metal/A production line/A factory/We have become a replica of caged baby chickens/The prison has become a replica of a chicken coop/Modern/Industrial.Behrouz Boochan...
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TL;DR: In this paper, what is the most effective way of filtering pollutants in the air? Wearing a mask? Using an air purifier? Eating certain supposedly "lung cleansing" foods, such as pears and carrots? Or perhaps in...
Abstract: What is the most effective way of filtering pollutants in the air? Wearing a mask? Using an air purifier? Eating certain supposedly ‘lung cleansing’ foods, such as pears and carrots? Or perhaps in ...
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TL;DR: In the unpublished seminar Life Death, Derrida offers a careful reading of the question of sexual difference and reproduction in The Logic of Life by French biologist François Jacob, which gives the opportunity to highlight the fundamental role played by sexual difference in DerrIDA’s deconstruction of the determination of life in Western tradition rooted in the so-called ‘metaphysics of presence’.
Abstract: Might one not begin to think of a sexual difference (without negativity, let us be clear) that would not be sealed by the two 1Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht IIn the unpublished seminar Life Death [La...
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TL;DR: In the end, here and now, your own gaze touches the same traces of characters as mine, and you read me, and I write you. Somewhere, this takes place as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the end, here and now, your own gaze touches the same traces of characters as mine, and you read me, and I write you. Somewhere, this takes place.Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus.1If the body-in-transitio...
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TL;DR: In H.C. for Life, That Is to Say, Derrida describes his first reading of Helene Cixous writing as an encounter with an 'unidentifiable literary object' [objet litteraire non identifiable] as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In H.C. for Life, That Is to Say… Jacques Derrida describes his first reading of Helene Cixous’ writing as an encounter with an ‘unidentifiable literary object’ [objet litteraire non identifiable] ...
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TL;DR: We are bodies in spirits [esprits] fast as the radio as discussed by the authors, and we are spirits in spirit mediums fast as radio mediums, and we can hear each other's words.
Abstract: What is distance? Two oceans under my forefinger.We are bodies in spirits [esprits] fast as the radio.Helene Cixous.1[Brandon] was pretty much tied up in Nebraska, and I think in America people alw...
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TL;DR: Camilla, I’m sorry it has taken me so long to get in touch with you as discussed by the authors. I have not known where to start the call, or how to speak.
Abstract: SJ : : :Camilla, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get in touch. I’ve not known where to start the call, or how to speak. It’s more than the matter of address. And now I’ve missed you, and my only...
TL;DR: In the context of animal mass deaths, the authors learn that neither life nor death, nor connectivity nor kinship, nor earth's own empathy, nor a living creature's sweet desire to flourish with others is saf...
Abstract: In the context of animal mass deaths we learn that neither life nor death, nor connectivity nor kinship, nor earth’s own empathy, nor a living creature’s sweet desire to flourish with others is saf...
TL;DR: In 1998, Derrida revisited the circumstances of his encounter with Helene Cixous at Cafe Balzar in Paris in 1963, recalling receiving a postcard soliciting an interview as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Reminiscing in 1998 on the circumstances of his encounter with Helene Cixous at Cafe Balzar in Paris in 1963, Derrida recalls receiving a postcard soliciting an interview – ‘a very hasty word, from...
TL;DR: Even thinking (at) the border of thought (what we might call semi-theory), or writing or speaking words, images or dreams (perhaps semi-fictions), inevitably raises questions of genre, in both sen...
Abstract: Even thinking (at) the border of thought (what we might call semi-theory), or writing or speaking words, images or dreams (perhaps semi-fictions),1 inevitably raises questions of genre, in both sen...
TL;DR: The dodo bird is buried deep in simulacra as mentioned in this paper and is represented in a number of media, including illustrations, paintings and written recor- ferentions of the bird.
Abstract: The dodo bird is buried deep in simulacra. Extending from the early modern period to the present, stratified layers of dodo representations in the form of illustrations, paintings and written recor...
TL;DR: When I think of Paul, I do not think of a flow of private sensations in relation to my own sensations that are mediated through some interposed signs; rather, I Think of someone who lives in the sa...
Abstract: When I think of Paul, I do not think of a flow of private sensations in relation to my own sensations that are mediated through some interposed signs; rather, I think of someone who lives in the sa...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how contemporary works of critical theory and deconstruction can challenge preconceptions of the body and interrogate its limits, particularly in relation to intertwined foldings of desire, gender, race and sexuality.
Abstract: This issue of parallax entitled corps a, and the following one, a corps – its other part – explore how contemporary works of critical theory and deconstruction can challenge preconceptions of the body and interrogate its limits, particularly in relation to intertwined foldings of desire, gender, race and sexuality. In invoking the French term corps rather than its apparent English counterpart, the intent is to question the assumed familiarity of what a ‘body’ or ‘bodies’ are and could be: the French corps, singular and plural, translates as both ‘body’ and ‘bodies’ (hereafter: ‘body/ies’). This gesture of textual substitution (corps for ‘body/ies’) also aims to suggest that Derrida’s acute concern for the question of translation might help challenge and re-configure the conventional dichotomy between understandings of the body either as physical/material or as socio-culturally constructed.
TL;DR: In this article, Cixous' 2018 fiction Defions l’augure a faire corps defies translation, and the phrase, common in French, consistently loses ‘the' b...
Abstract: In Eng., body remains as a great and important word.OED.1In Helene Cixous’ 2018 fiction Defions l’augure a ‘faire corps’ defies translation. The phrase, common in French, consistently loses ‘the’ b...
TL;DR: A special issue of parallax, entitled a corps, continues the effort initiated in the previous issue, corps a as mentioned in this paper, to explore how critical theory and deconstruction can challenge preconceptions on the body and interrogate its limits, in particular with regard to the nexus of desire, gender, race and sexuality.
Abstract: This special issue of parallax, entitled a corps, continues the effort initiated in the previous issue, corps a – an effort to explore how critical theory and deconstruction can challenge preconceptions on the body and interrogate its limits, in particular with regard to the nexus of desire, gender, race and sexuality. In the text that introduced the other issue, we focused on outlining some of the directions suggested by our decision to open up the space for such inquiry through the French word ‘corps’ rather its most apparent counterparts in English language, ‘body’ or ‘bodies’. More specifically, we focused on the (un)countability and (un)translatability of corps, and showed how this focus allows for approaching corporeal experience differently than is prescribed by conventional understandings in Western thought and politics, that is, as informed by dualisms such as material/spiritual, body/soul, flesh/mind, natural/cultural, real/symbolic, corporeal/linguistic, etc. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s reflections on the body, we suggested approaching corps through the notion of general writing [ ecriture]. Thinking the corporeal through text, that is, as an effect of differantial traces which remain to be read, deciphered and translated, leaves – we argued – bodily experience structurally open to future inscriptions and transformative re-inscriptions. In this sense, corps is what remains to be thought.
TL;DR: The authors distinguish between two theoretical focal points for affect theory or the affective turn: one working within the legacy of Baruch Spinoza, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze a...
Abstract: Accounts of affect usually distinguish between two theoretical focal points for affect theory or the affective turn: one working within the legacy of Baruch Spinoza, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze a...
TL;DR: Vrablikova et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how contemporary critical thinking can challenge preconception about the problem of corps, focusing on the parallax and the previous part of this special issue.
Abstract: Lenka Vrablikova: Focusing on the problem of corps, this special issue of parallax and the previous one – its other part – seek to explore how contemporary critical thinking can challenge preconcep...
TL;DR: The concept of liminality helps us to conceptualize the borderlands between humans and animals as mentioned in this paper, as the purpose of all theories of liminality is to understand the borderland between people and animals.
Abstract: How does the concept of liminality help us to conceptualize the borderlands between humans and animals? From one angle, the answer is straightforward enough, as the purpose of all theories of limin...
TL;DR: It should also be remembered that the parasite is by definition never simply external, never simply something that can be excluded from or kept outside of the body ‘proper,’ shut out from the ‘ familial’ table or house.
Abstract: It should also be remembered that the parasite is by definition never simply external, never simply something that can be excluded from or kept outside of the body ‘proper,’ shut out from the ‘fami...
TL;DR: Giorgio Agamben identifies the process of separating the human from the animal, a mechanism he terms the "anthropological machine of humanism" as discussed by the authors, as foundational to Western thought and contemporary b...
Abstract: Giorgio Agamben identifies the process of separating the human from the animal, a mechanism he terms the ‘anthropological machine of humanism’, as foundational to Western thought and contemporary b...
TL;DR: In 2019, two major science fiction films were released to UK audiences that stage parallel scenes of human-nonhuman confrontation in the far-out darkness of space, High Life and James...
Abstract: In 2019, two major science fiction films were released to UK audiences that stage parallel scenes of human-nonhuman confrontation in the far-out darkness of space. Claire Denis’ High Life and James...