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Abstract: CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas that do not amount to a mere reiteration of the past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I want more life. I can't help myself. I do. … But I recognize the habit. The addiction to being alive.One must never confess to oneself that one loves oneself.What can masturbation teach you about thinking' And can it change your life' In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, masturbation became, at least nominally, a recommended form of sexual distancing and a lifesaving measure. This turn seemed prima facie to reverse a long-standing cultural prohibition on masturbation as perverse, unproductive, deranging, and wasteful. But in the pages that follow, I want to dwell on it as a figure of understanding that reveals more dispossessing ways of thinking about sex, restraint, and survival during viral times. What ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Power of the Dog provides fodder for legislators and jurors as they seek to roll back the rights of the LGBTQ+ community and, most directly, trans people.1 While a summary of the film's plot might seem to indicate that only a certain type of homosexual is repudiated—the repressed kind whose torture does not end with himself—closer consideration of the film's liberating moments make of the homosexual or sexual other an uncontainable threat whose guises become indecipherable.The film's antihero Phil, co-owner with his brother of a Montana ranch, tortures anyone who displays a whiff of the feminine or interrupts the curious bond he has with his pudgy brother. (The brother, incidentally, has no masculinity to spare.) ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "One senses a surreal space, an inexplicable space," Dionne Brand writes in what has perhaps been her most commented-on work. "Our inheritance in the Diaspora is to live in this inexplicable space. That space is the measure of our ancestors' step through the door toward the ship. One is caught in the few feet in between. The frame of the doorway is the only space of true existence" (2001, 20). A Map to the Door of No Return mixes and juxtaposes spatial–political–ontological theorization with memoir and cultural critique to poetically present this "inexplicable space" of the black diaspora as the effectuation of immanent antiblack spatial prohibition; Brand's insight that inexplicable space is the "true space of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: You have no idea what it is to be a woman. To have one's entire life reduced down to a single moment. This is all I have been raised for. This is all I am. I have no other value. If I am unable to find a husband, I shall be worthless.The archive of gender is structurally anti-black. Its assumptive logic, whether explicit in its presentation or not, maintains that all women have the same gender.On December 25, 2020, Netflix released Bridgerton, a Regency-era drama loosely based on Julia Quinn's romance novel series of the same name. Following the eponymous family as their eldest daughter Daphne enters her first social season, Bridgerton centers Daphne's quest to marry not for title, which the series depicts as ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Sylvia Wynter, in her early writings (1968–1976), adopts Theodor W. Adorno's notion of immanent critique, the name he gives to an intellectual project they shared during the late 1960s. Wynter claims to have found her critical practice of undermining foundations in Adorno's writings: "Adorno was thinking in an entirely new way, everywhere questioning the presuppositions that underlay what he was saying" (Scott 2000, 153). Although Adorno's knowledge of the commonality of their project remained restricted, the actual facticity of their sharing is not lessened by his ignorance. By tracing the commonality of their project of immanent critique, I give an account of Wynter's investment in decomposing dialectics. If ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Whosoever hath a lawfull power over any Writing, to make it Law, hath the power also to approve, or disapprove the interpretation of the same.To him therefore there can not be any knot in the Law, insoluble; either by finding the ends, to undoe it by; or else by making what ends he will, (as Alexander did with his sword in the Gordian knot,) by the Legislative power; which no other Interpreter can doe.Sovereignty holds an ambivalent relation to reading. It both necessitates and abhors reading. The relation of sovereignty to reading is, simultaneously, one of exclusion and appropriation. As Alberto Manguel claims in A History of Reading, "absolute power requires that all reading be official reading; instead of whole ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I grew up Mennonite in a moderately diverse city in the United States, where—once we were past the questions about buggies and bonnets—my schoolmates learned with astonishment that one of our core beliefs, pacifism, prevented us from serving in the military or otherwise using firearms. This gave rise to a perverse game in which the pacifist's devotion to nonviolence would be tested, weighing imagined atrocities threatening my mother and sisters against various easy but violent means of dispatching evildoers. Surely there are instances in which a violent act is irresistible and the recourse to violence irreproachable. My last word in these discussions was always that Mennonites had no categorical justifications of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What gives birth to philosophy and more precisely what makes possible the critical attitude' Is philosophical questioning driven by the astonishment produced by the mere fact of being (Plato)' Does it derive from our existential structure (Heidegger)' Is it the ethical interdiction produced by the Other that gives birth to the critical attitude (Levinas)'If we schematize these questions—which should not be taken as exhaustive—we can say that what leads to philosophical questioning is either the astonishment produced by being or the traumatism provoked by the Other. In the first case, the philosophical exercise is meant to elucidate what makes questioning possible. Philosophy consists in providing an elucidation of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: RCA VICTOR HAS A GIFT FOR MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY! Give "The Gift That Keeps on Giving." Here are a few of many RCA Victor sets you'll find—priced just right—at your dealer's. Playing Santa for someone special' Make sure your gift will please. Get an RCA Victor radio, "Victrola" phonograph or combination. It's one gift anyone will love at first sight—and for years to come.The popular expression "the gift that keeps on giving" was coined during the 1920s in advertising, notably in association with the promotion of electronic consumer products, such as radios, televisions, and photographic cameras; it was and is currently still used to promote a product's capacity to give enjoyment, happiness, surprise, excitement ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Nikolai Fedorov (1829–1903) is an eccentric figure without parallel in the domain of modern thought. His intellectual vision, elaborated across a number of essays and the sprawling unpublished magnum opus written from the 1870s to the 1890s, The Question of Fraternity, attempted a novel theorization of the trajectory, meaning, and telos of the human species through the fulcrum of resurrection.1 For this unorthodox Russian Orthodox thinker, resurrection was neither a transcendent object of faith nor something merely hoped for, but rather the collective duty of the living to the dead that was to be materially realized in what he termed "the common task." In dialogue with the major Russian figures of the time as well ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-19T00:00:00-05:00
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