Sarah WoodIndependent Scholar Volume 16, 2024 Let’s begin with a sheaf of epigraphs—even if right now we don’t know what this kind of sheaf is, or how sheaving might work: 1) … the programmer instructs the computer to abide by certain rules, which are then converted into commands to be executed. Activities are ruled by...
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Potabilities: Post-Violence Literature and its Limits
Tyler M. WilliamsMidwestern State University Volume 16, 2024 There are people who say, “I’m thirsty.” They step into a café and order a beer. Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After (145) Language is Fascist In his inaugural lecture upon being appointed in 1977 to the Chair of Literary Semiology at the Collège de France, Roland Barthes...
Echoes & Bones: Foiled Khôratic Reflections Against Fascism
James MartellLyon College Volume 16, 2024 Socrates: “Tell me, do you deny altogether the possibility of such a craftsman, or do you admit that in a sense there could be such a creator of all these things, and in another sense not? Or do you not perceive that you yourself would be able to make...
The Political Claim: When All Men Are Equal Because They Are Nothing
Brett LevinsonBinghamton University Volume 15, 2024 Rousseau’s A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, otherwise known as the Second Discourse, argues that the source of social inequality is measurable equality, which measure is wealth and property. The origin, more specifically, is the “first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying...
Against (the Grain of) Order
Maddalena CerratoTexas A&M University Volume 15, 2024. The following text corresponds entirely to the paper I delivered at the “Tracking Infrapolitics” meeting on March 3, 2022. The materials for the presentation were extracted from an initial draft manuscript of my Against Order: Infrapolitics, Autography, Matrianarchy, and Cybercriticism, a monograph that is still under preparation. The...