Qui Parle

Issue 21.1 of qui parle, “Liner Notes: The Margins of Song” is now available in print through the University of Nebraska Press, and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. The Fall/Winter 2012 issue includes:

Simon Porzak introducing the Marginality of Song
Adriana Cavarero on The Vocal Body
Veit Erlmann on Refiguring the Early Modern Voice
Mara Mills on the Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing
Judith A. Peraino on David Bowie, Andy Warhol, and the Art of Posing
Axel Nesme on the Poetic Voice and Its Lacanian Other
Michal Grover-Friedlander and Eli Friedlander on Setting the Stage and Staging the Voice in Weill and Brecht’s Der Jasager
Simon Porzak interviews Wayne Koestenbaum regarding Opera as a Closed Book
Robert Alford reviews Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe’s Zero Patience

Issue 20.2 of qui parle, “Affect Theory” is now available in print through the University of Nebraska Press, and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. The Spring/Summer 2012 issue includes:

Marta Figlerowicz introducing the Affect Theory Dossier
Catherine Malabou on Following Generation
Elizabeth Abel on Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography, with supplementary images on the qui parle website
Jordan Greenwald interviews Lauren Berlant on Affect in the End Times
Suzanne Herrera Li Puma introduces the work of Cara Benedetto
Color plates featuring work from Cara Benedetto’s Body Bags
Andrew Moisey on the Desire to Mark our Buried Nuclear Waste
Joseph Litvak examines Resentment in David Copperfield
Kristin Reed introduces Dmitri Prigov’s Versographies
James Martel on Nietzsche’s Cruel Messiah
Donna Jones on on the Continuous Career of Living Things in Bergson, Iqbal, and Scalia
Betina González-Azcárate and Joshua Lund on Mining the Topics

Issue 20.1 of qui parle, “Higher Education on its Knees” is now available in print through the University of Nebraska Press, and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. This special four-part issue contains eighteen essays dealing with various dimensions concerning the ongoing global crisis in higher education. This Fall/Winter 2011 issue features:

Introduction by Michelle Ty
Gert Biesta on the rise of the global university and the crisis in higher education
Wendy Brown on the proposed UC Cyber-Campus
Annie McClanahan on the living indebted
Lionel Ruffel on the fate of books and the academic library
Michael Bérubé on “The Futility of the Humanities”
Geoffrey Galt Harpham on “Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare”
Henry A. Giroux on defending higher education as a public good
Robert Paul Wolff on the good of a liberal education
Marjorie Perloff on “The Death of a Discipline”
Laurent Dubreuil on “A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises”
Hélène Merlin-Kajman on transmitting literature
V. Kaladharan on the transition from meditative learning to impersonal pedagogy in Indian education
Francesco Crocco on “Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY”
Maritza Stanchich reports from the University of Puerto Rico on “A University Besieged”
Aaron Porter on “The English Gamble with the Future of Higher Education”
Rei Terada on “Free Speech, Disruption, and Student Protest”
Charlotte Latimer, et. al. on Creative Subversions
Lyn Hejinian on Wild Captioning

Qui Parle 19.2, now available in print from Nebraska and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR, is a special issue that brings together art and essays with an ecological focus that also resonate with critical theory. The issue features:

Introduction by Katrina Dodson
Stephanie LeMenager on “Petro-melancholia: the BP Blowout and the Arts of Grief”
Alenda Y. Chang on games as environmental texts
Lawrence Buell on emerging trends in ecocriticism
Karen Barad on “Nature’s Queer Performativity” in lightning, stingray neuronal receptors, and atoms
Timothy Morton on the ecological promise of object-oriented ontology
Sunaura Taylor on disability studies and animals rights
Alastair Hunt on destabilizing the human subject of rights discourse
Selections from In Praise of Vagabonds, French landscape architect Gilles Clément’s reflection on invasive species, translated and with an
introduction by ecopoetics editor Jonathan Skinner
Katherine Chandler on the politics of matter
Yates McKee on climate refugees, biopolitics, and aesthetics
Artwork and poetry by David Maisel, Sunaura Taylor, Craig Dworkin, Brenda Hillman, Harryette Mullen, Jonathan Skinner, Simona Schneider, and Joan Retallack

Qui Parle’s last issue, available in print from Nebraska and online through Project MUSE, features:

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Pythagoras
Nicola Masciandaro on sorrow
Jean-Michel Rabaté on Freud and obsolescence
Lilya Kaganovsky on post-Soviet film
Nathan Brown on rationalist empiricism
Scott Ferguson on Haeckel and Bergson
Jacques Lezra on ethics and infanticide
Alex Benson on Eakins and anthropology
Vincent Lloyd on Žižek and Milbank
Michelle Ty on cognitive literary studies