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Cutting Democracy’s Knot – Angela Mitropoulos, Brett Neilson

Vol 8 (2006) Community Cutting Democracy's Knot Angela Mitropoulos & Brett Neilson In his first extended speech in the midst of the rebellions of the banlieues and an officially declared…

Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-Ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy – Dorota Glowacka

Vol 8 (2006) Community Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-Ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy Dorota Glowacka Your death and our death: Are two different deaths. Your death…

Putting Community Under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on the Plurality of Singularities – Marie-Eve Morin

Vol 8 (2006) Community Putting Community Under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on the Plurality of Singularities Marie-Eve Morin In a note at the end of the essay 'The inoperative…

The Sense of Being(-)With Jean-Luc Nancy – Ignaas Devisch

Vol 8 (2006) Community The Sense of Being(-)With Jean-Luc Nancy Ignaas Devisch The 'passivity' of language or thought is an act; it forms an active power that requires strength, work;…

Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida – Kuisma Korhonen

Vol 8 (2006) Community Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida Kuisma Korhonen You find yourself in a dark room with a table, a chair, and a small circle of candlelight. On…

Community: Commme-un? Dorota Glowacka

Vol 8 (2006) Community Community: Commme-un? Dorota Glowacka In recent years, the notion of community has emerged as an important but also contested field of enquiry. The 'new' discourse of…

Can Desire Go On Without A Body? Pornographic Exchange and the Death of the Sun

Dougal Phillips 'While we talk, the sun is getting older' Jean-François Lyotard) Introduction One statistic among many: Every day there are 68 million search engine requests for pornographic material, making…

Jacques Rancière (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible

Trans. and introd. Gabriel Rockhill. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-7067-X. Sean Sayers Jacques Rancière is one of the most important and original contemporary French philosophers. This book provides…

Dianne Chisholm (2004) Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City

Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0816644047. Catharina Landström In Queer Constellations (2004) Dianne Chisholm extends the territory of literary scholarship beyond the analysis of writing. She develops theory, reconfigures…

Vincent Mosco (2004) The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace.

Cambridge and London: MIT Press. ISBN: 026213439X Bernadette Wegenstein The Digital Sublime is a useful book for those of us semioticians who are interested in understanding the discourse universe around and…