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Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1985
the representation of otherness
Avital Ronell
Mimus Polyglottus
Pamela Roberts
Philippê
Patricia Teefy
Montaigne: Mask and Melancholy
Lisa Neal
Le Couteau de l’Autre,
Un Regard sur Leiris
Thomas F. Petruso
Madame Bovary in the Consumer Society
Andreas Illner
Manque de Sujet–Sujet du Manque:
Réflexions sur la fonction de l’absence
dans les Lettres de la religieuse portugaise
Mira Usha Kamdar
Poétique et Politique: le paradoxe
de la représentation de l’autre
dans le Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1987
Under Construction
Interventions
J. Hillis Miller
Jean-Luc Nancy
Rainer Nägele
Marian Hobson
Laurence Rickels
Werner Hamacher
Francine Masiello
Jason Ales
Jonathan Elmer
Something for Nothing: Barthes in the Text of Ideology
Adam Bresnick
Tristan et Iseut as a "salle aux images"
Marc DaRosa
The Socratic Disruption of Origins in The Birth of Tragedy
Cynthia McPherson
The Double-edged Pen, Reading "A Peine" in Mémoires
Bruce Gold
How Progress Eludes Us: Variations on a Theme
Pierre Alféri
Elégie californienne (extrait)
Book Review
Giancarlo J. Lacinia
Nouveau traité des ruines
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1988
Paranoia & Schizophrenia
Friedrich Kittler
Flechsig/Schreber/Freud:
An Informations Network of 1910
Laurence Rickels
Subliminalation
Winfried Kudszus
Between the Tongues
Avital Ronell
On the Way to Lainguage:
Heidegger and Schizophrenia
Peter Canning
Here Comes the Sun
Leslie Harris
The Return of the Repressed, or,
the Case of the Fragmented Cousin
Françoise
Jaouen
Le Bonheur des Dames ou
la machine du célibataire
Marc Penka
Representation and the Economies of Repression
Anne Nesbet
Schizoglossia and Berlin Alexanderplatz
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Phantographics
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1988
Silence and Intervention
Sonia Van Ballaert
On the Nullity of Abstractions
R. Howard Bloch
Chaucer’s Maiden’s Head:
The Physician’s Tale and the Poetics of Virginity
Brian Holmes
Frontiers of Figure:
Don Quixote and the Comedia
Ann Smock
Quiet
Elizabeth Bloomfield
Le Pain de Ponge
Mangé enfin! Dans l’abîme.
Jacques Derrida
A Number of Yes
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1989
Theatricality & Literature
Preface
Lisa Freinkel
Reading’s Response
Rainer Nägele
Puppet Play and Trauerspiel
Michel Chaouli
Masking and Unmasking:
The Ideological Fantasies of the Eighteenth Brumaire
Michael Macrone
The Theatrical Self in Renaissance England
Samuel Weber
La bolte et le balcon: de la technique au théâtre
Cixous Dossier
Preface
Hélène
Cixous
Writings on the Theater
Hélène
Cixous
Manna: "Dedication to the Ostrich"
Interview with Hélène
Cixous
Anne Boyman
Dora, or the Case of L’Écriture Féminine
Anu Aneja
The Mystic Aspect of L’Écriture Féminine:
Hélène Cixous’ Vivre l’Orange
Book Reviews
Paul Smith, Discerning
the Subject
(Adam Bresnick)
Catherine Clément,
Opera, or the Undoing of Women
(David Levin)
Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 1989
Cultural Identity and the Promise of Literature
Nasser Hussain
Hyphenated Identity: Nationalistic Discourse,
History, and the Anxiety of Criticism
in Salman Rushdie’s Shame
Eric Zakim
The Cut That Binds:
Philip Roth and Jewish Marginality
Jean-Luc Nancy
Beheaded Sun (Soleil Cou Coupé)
Natalie Melas
Brides of Opportunity:
Figurations of Women and Colonial
Discourse in Lord Jim
David Lloyd
The Poetics of Politics:
Yeats and the Founding of the State
Tadeusz Pioro
Joyce’s Irish, Beckett’s French:
Expatriation and the Poltics of Cultural Identity
Peter Sahlins
Language, Identity, and the French
Revolution: A View from the Periphery
Ann Gelder
Justifying the Page
Eva Cherniavsky
Stowe’s Authentic Ghost
Mitchell Breitwieser
Franklin’s American Odyssey
Book Reviews
Heather James
On Jon R. Snyder, Writing the Scene of Speaking:
Theories of Dialogue in the Late Italian Renaissance
Carolyn Duffey
On Kathryn Gravdal, "Vlain" and "Courtois":
Transgressive Parody in French Literature of the
Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 1990
Reading Seeing
Slavoj Zizek
How the Non-Duped Err
Karen Jacobs
Two Mirrors Facing:
Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisibility
Victor Burgin
Chance Encounters
Flâneur and Détraquée in Breton’s Nadja
Richard Meyer
Imagining Sadomasochism:
Robert Mapplethorpe
and the Masquerade of Photography
Rainer Mack
Reading the Archaeology of the Female Body
Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Up Close, From Afar:
The Subject’s Distance from Representation
Book Reviews
Jonathan Elmer
On Slavoj Zizek,
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Anne Nesbet
On Anton Kaes,
From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film
Terry Mulcaire
On Andrew Ross,
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture
Joan Hawkins
On Robert Motherwell, ed.
The Dada Painters and Poets
and
Maurice Nadeau,
The History of Surrealism
Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 1991
Different Subjects
Peggy Kamuf
Baudelaire’s Modern Woman
Greg Forter
Going Straight with Gilda
Michael Lucey
Gide Writing Home from Africa, or
From Biskra with Love
Lisa Freinkel
The Analogy of Form:
Mourning and Kant’s Third Critique
Annea Cheng
Reading Lucy Snowe’s Cryptology:
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Suspended Mourning
Elizabeth Maddock
Swift and the Subject of Satire
Barbara Claire Freeman
A Union Forever Deferred:
Sexual Politics after Lacan
Book Reviews
Adam Bresnick
On David Rosenberg & Harold Bloom
The Book of J
Maud Gwynn Burnett
On Frances Bartkowski
Feminist Utopias
Volume 5, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1991
Acts of Commerce
Jean-Joseph Goux
Banking on Painting
Rochelle Tobias
Death’s Poetic Property
with
Ann Smock, tanslator
Poèmes de Samuel Wood (Selections) by Louis-Rene des Forets
Derek Attridge
Arche-Jargon
Blakey Vermeule
Is there a Sedgwick School for Girls?
Slavoj Zizek
The Totalitarian Invitaton to Enjoyment
Adam Bresnick
Dialectic or Genius: Rameau’s Nephew
Book Reviews
Richard Meyer
On Joseph A. Boone & Michael Cadden, eds.
Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism
Michel Chaouli
On Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Political Crumbs
Eric Zakim
On Joseph N. Straus
Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and
the Influence of the Tonal Tradition
Volume 5, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1992
Distractions
Richard Doyle
Mr. Schrödinger Inside Himself
Tommaso Giartosio
La vérité du bonheur: The Legitimalion of
Literature in Georges Bataille’s L’Abbé C
Distractions: A
Dossier on Weimar Culture
Siegfried Kracauer
Loitering: Four Encounters in Berlin
Gertrud Koch
Cosmos in Film: On the Concept of Space in
Walter Benjamin’s "Work of Art" Essay
Helmut Lethen
Refrigerators of Intelligence
Miriam Hansen
Ambivalence of the "Mass Ornament":
King Vidor’s The Crowd
Courtney Federle
Kuchenmesser DADA:
Hannah Höch’s Cut through the Field of Vision
Anton Kaes
Modernity and its Discontents:
Notes on Alterity in Weimar Cinema
Book Reviews
Lisa Freinkel
On John Rajchman
Truth and Eros:
Foucault, Lacan, and the Question of Ethics
Geogre Handley
On Homi K. Bhabha, ed.
Nation and Narration
Ann Gelder
On Page duBois
Torture and Truth: The New Ancient World
Volume 6, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1992
Bodies and Disgust
Leo Bersani &
Ulysse Dutoit
Sadism and Film: Freud and Resnais
Joseph Litvak
Delicacy and Disgust, Mourning and Melancholia,
Privilege and Perversity: Pride and Prejudice
Lincoln Shlensky
Preside at their Pleasures: Rousseau, Diderot, Kafka
and the Ambivalence of Representation
Andrzej Warminski
Spectre Shapes: "The Body of Descartes?"
with an intervention by Peggy Kamuf
James Elkins
The Unease in Art History
Book Reviews
Eve Sanders
On Valerie Traub
Desire and Anxiety:
Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
Volume 6, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1993
Remarking
Michael Witmore
Guarantees of the Remarkable
Tom Cohen
Hitchcock and the Death of (Mr.) Memory
Mladen Dolar
Beyond Interpellation
Susan Courtney
Looking for (Race and Gender) Trouble in Monument Valley
Review Essay
Frederick M. Dolan
The Philosophical Laughter of Michel Foucault
Review of The Passion of Michel Foucault
Book Reviews
Alison Conway
On Marcia Pointon
Hanging the Head: Portraiture and
Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England
Catherine Robson
On James Kincaid
Child Loving:
The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture
Volume 7, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1993
Nation & Fantasy
Benedict Anderson
Replica, Aura, and Late Nationalist Imaginings
Sarah Pelmas
Freedom’s Performative Legacy
Dana Stevens
Writing, Scratching and Politics from M to Mabuse
Stathis Gourcouris
Notes on the Nation’s Dreamwork
David Kazanjian
Notarizing Knowledge: Paranoia and Civility in Freud and Lacan
Book Reviews
Michael Hardt
On John Rawls
Political Liberalism
Benjamin Reiss
On Eric Lott
Love and Theft:
Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Marianne Constable
On Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm, eds.
Rhetorical Republic:
Governing Representations in American Politics
Volume 7, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1994
Invisibility and Translation
Kathryn A. Tuma
"Une dentelle s’abolit": The Invisibilities of Vermilion
in Vermeer’s The Lacemaker
Jonathan Boyarin
The Missing Keyword:
Reading Olender’s Renan
John Dolan
"Today the Mind is Not Part of the Weather":
Cognitive and Rhetorical Perspectives
on the Construction of Poetic Metaphor
Mustapha Kamal
Averroes’ Search Today: Beit al-Hikmah and
Translation in Morocco
Jerry Herron
Facing Death: Modernity, Morality, Postcards
Book Reviews
Marja Mogk
On Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Elizabeth M. Dillon
On Teresa De Lauretis
The Practice of Love:
Lesbian Subjectivity and Perverse Desire
Volume 8, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1994
Allegory in Translation
John Culbert
Nowhere in Paris: A Tour of the Bièvre
Alexander García
Düttmann
On Translatability
Jane Gallop
The Translation of Deconstruction
Jonathan Sheehan
The Remains of History
Gregory Moynahan
"Bathed in Light That Is Not Bound By Space":
Subjectivity, Allegory and the Word in Book X
of Augustine’s Confessions
Review Essay
Ann Smock
On Jean Paulhan’s Récits
Volume 8, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1995
Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum
Thomas W. Laqueur
Masturbation, Credit and the Novel During
the Long Eighteenth Century
Miran Bozovic
"An Utterly Dark Spot": The Fiction of God in
Bentham’s Panopticon
A Remembrance of
Amos Funkenstein
Amos Funkenstein
Terrorism and Theory
Isaac Miller
St. Augustine, the Narrative Self,
and the Invention of Fiction
Margot Harrison
Pathological Honesty: Truth and Self in
Rousseau and Nietzsche
Volume 9, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1995
The Dissimulation of History
Eduardo Cadava
Sternphotographie: Benjamin, Blanqui,
and the Mimesis of Stars
William Egginton
On Relativism, Rights, and Differends, or,
Ethics and the American Holocaust
Charles Altieri
Images of Form vs. Images of Content in
Contemporary Asian-American Poetry
Yuji Oniki
Perec, Marx, and Les Choses
J. Hillis Miller
The Other’s Other: Jealousy and Art in Proust
Book Review
Daniel Coffeen
On Peter Fenves
"Chatter": Language and History Kierkegaard
Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1996
Special Issue on Lacan
Joan Copjec
The Strut of Vision: Seeing’s Somatic Support
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Phenomenologies of the Surface:
Radiation-Body-Image
Gabriel Riera
Abyssal Grounds: Lacan and Heidegger on Truth
John Gasperoni
The Unconscious is Structured Like a Language
Juliet Flower MacCannell
Jouissance between the Clinic and the Academy:
The Analyst and Woman
Tracy McNulty
The Other Jouissance, a Gay Sçavoir
Jacques-Alain Miller
The Monologue of L’apparole
Volume 10, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1996
Adriana Cavarero
Regarding the Cave
David H. Wittenberg
Misreading as Canon Formation:
Remembering Harold Bloom’s Theory of Revision
M. Stone-Richards
and Ming Tiampo
To introduce Pierre Fédida
Pierre Fédida
The Movement of the Informe
Gian Balsamo
The Law of the Outlaw: Family Succession and
Family Secession in Hegel and Genesis 31
Michael Naas
Blanchot . . . Writing . . . Ellipsis
Book Reviews
Daniel H. Foster
On Frederic Spotts
Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival
Paul Kottman
On Lisa Jardine
Reading Shakespeare Historically
Volume 10, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1997
Heidegger & Co.
Gianni Vattimo
Philosophy, Metaphysics, Democracy
Jed Deppman
Jean-Luc Nancy, Myth, and Literature
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Il Faut
Raj Sampath
Superseding Deconstruction: Blanchot, Hegel, and the Theory of Epochs
Giorgio Agamben
Vocation and Voice
Book Review:
Peter Eli Gordon
On Rüdiger Safranski
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
Volume 11, Number 1, Fall/Winter 1997
Constructing the Real
Judith Butler
"How Can I Deny That These Hands and This Body Are Mine?"
Jeffrey S. Timon
"This Divided Regime, Naïve and Crafty. . . "
Barrett Watten
The Constructivist Moment: From Eli Lissitzky to Detroit Techno
Brett R. Wheeler
Is Public Art Safe for Democracy? Aesthetics and Politics Between Weber
and Adorno
Matthew Gumpert
Poetics / Cosmetics: Ronsard’s Sonets pour Helene
Book Reviews
Paul Reitter
On Carl E. Schorske
Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
Lytle Shaw
On Michael Davidson
Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material World
Volume 11, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1999
Eric L. Santner
Psychoanalysis and the Enigmas of Sovereignty
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Anamnesis of the Visible 2
Elisabeth Weber
Before the Law, After the Law: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lyotard
Michael Sicinski
Michael Snow’s Wavelength and the Space of Dwelling
Carla Freccero
Early Modern Psychoanalytics: Montaigne and the Melancholic Subject
of Humanism
A Dossier of Papers
on Psychoanalysis and Film
Homay King
"All the Shapes We Make": The Passenger’s Flight from Formal
Stagnation
Maria St. John
"It Ain’t Fittin’": Cinematic and Fantasmatic Contours of
Mammy in Gone with the Wind
and Beyond
David Eng
Melancholia/Postcoloniality: Loss in The Floating Life
Kaja Silverman
Resonse to the Papers of Maria St. John, Homay King, and David Eng
Book Review
Jeff Fort
"An extreme thought of difference": Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe’s
Poetry as Experienc
Volume 12, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2000
The End of Nature
Dossier on Hans
Blumenberg
Anna Wertz
On the Possibility of Creative Being: Introducing Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg
"Imitation of Nature": Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of
Creative Being
Samuel Moyn
Metaphorically Speaking: Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the
Problem of Origins
Anthony Reynolds
Unfamaliar Methods: Blumenberg and Rorty on Metaphor
Rudiger Campe
From the Theory of Technology to the Technique of Metaphor: Blumenberg’s
Opening Move
Anselm Haverkamp
Mass Times Acceleration: Rhetoric as the Meta-Physics of the Aesthetic
Article
Christopher Peterson
Resenting AIDS: Paranoia, Punishment, Performativity
Review Essay
Chris Diffee
After Potemkin Politics: On Tom Cohen’s Ideology and Inscription
Volume 12, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2001
Special Issue on the Poetics of New Meaning
Guest Edited by Barrett Watten
Introduction
Barrett Watten
The Poetics of New Meaning
Articles
Sianne Ngai
Moody Subjects/Projectile Objects: Anxiety and Intellectuall Displacement
in Hitchcock, Heidegger,
and Melville
Steve Evans
"A World Unsuspected": The Dynamics of Literary Change in
Hegel, Bourdieu, and Adorno
Benjamin Friedlander
A Short History of Language Poetry/According to "Hecuba Whimsy"
Lytle Shaw
Proximity’s Plea: O’Hara’s Art Writing
Lisa Samuels
If Meaning, Shaped Reading, and Leslie Scalapino’s way
Review Essay
Vincent Cannon
Spectres of Christ: Love, Christianity, and the Political in Slavoj
Zizek’s The Fragile Absolute
Volume 13, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001
Fascism, Gender, and Culture
Introduction
Ara H. Merjian
Fascism, Gender, Culture
Barbara Spackman
Fascist Puerilty
Andrew Hewitt
A Fascist Feminine
Mark Antliff
Machine Primitives: Philippe Lamour, Germaine Krull, and the Fascist
Cult of Youth
Todd Presner
The End of Sex and the Last Man: On the Weimar Utopia of Ernst Jünger’s
"Worker"
Jeffrey Schnapp
Driven
Interview
Luisa Passerini
Gender, Historiography, and the Interpretation of Fascism
Book Reviews
Jennifer Bethke
Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Mordernism: Art and Politics Under
Fascism
Josephine Park
Paul Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer
Volume 13, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2003
History, Representation, and the Impossible Subject of Race
Niklaus Largier
The Logic of Arousal: St. Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse
Philosophe
Miryam Sas
Hands, Lines, Acts: Butoh and Surrealism
Introduction
David Marriott
The Love of Neither-Either–Racial Integration in Pressure Point
Kara Keeling
"In The Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems"
of Visual Representation
Hank Willis Thomas
Frames
Huey Copeland
Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas’ Frames Series
Neferti X.M. Tadiar
In the Face of Whiteness as Value: Fall-Out of Metropolitan Humanness
Saidiya V. Hartman
The Position of Unthought: An Interview by Frank B. Wilderson, III
Book Reviews
Stuart J. Murray
Myth as Critique?: Review of Michel Foucault’s "Society Must Be
Defended"
Volume 14, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2003
Digitality
Articles
Stuary J. Murray
Network Digital Information Humachines:
A Conversation with Mark Poster
Gordon Hull
Digital Copyright and the Possibility of Pure Law
Julian Stallabrass
The Aesthetics of Net.Art
Gerhard Richter
Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the
Delusion
Jill Stauffer
Peace is Resistance to the Terrible Satisfactions of War:
An Interview with Judith Butler
Book Reviews
Todd Cronan
Shaken Realism
Volume 14, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2004
Aural Aesthetics: Music, Voice, Language
Jacques Rancière
Is there a Deleuzian Aesthetics?
Jon Soske
The Dissimulation of Race: Afro-Pessimism and the Problem
of Development
Denise Riley
"A voice without a mouth:" Inner Speech
Karen Feldman
The Binding Word: Conscience and the Rhetoric of Agency
in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Brian Kane
The Elusive "Elementary Atom of Music"
Stathis Gourgouris
The Lyric in Exile (Meditations on the Hollywooder Liederbuch)
David Copenhafer
Invisible Music (Ellison)
Book Reviews
Todd Cronan
On Clement Greenberg
Late Writings, edited by Robert C. Morgan
Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2006
Achille Mbembe
On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics
Richard Sawaya
The Skepticism and Animal Faith of Wallace Stevens
Special Dossier on Disaster
Ariella Azoulay
Citizens of Disaster
Natalia Brizuela
’Curiosity! Wonder!! Horror!!! Misery!!!!’ The Campanha de Canudos, or the Photography of History
David Bates
Revolutions in the Nuclear Age
Mark Pedretti
A Disaster By Any Other Name



























