Provocations

I’ll Be Gone in a Day or Two – Page 3

By Anthony Hawley Issue 3 May 25, 2022 Download PDF « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next Page » I. Private Dancer It’s 19 eighty four & […]

I’ll Be Gone in a Day or Two – Page 2

By Anthony Hawley Issue 3 May 25, 2022 Download PDF « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next Page »

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I’ll Be Gone in a Day or Two: America & Authenticity on Repeat

By Anthony Hawley Issue 3 May 25, 2022 Download PDF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next Page » Editors’ Note I’ll Be Gone in a Day or Two can be read in its entirety, and in its original format, by downloading and viewing the PDF version. The […]

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Lesser and Incomplete Existences

By Michael J. Shapiro Issue 5 September 8, 2021 Download PDF The ‘people’ as a unity, identity, totality, or generality… does not exist. — Georges Didi-Huberman Gregg Lambert’s conceptually astute and elegantly composed The People Are Missing offers a double provocation.[1] First, because it is thought-provoking the proper response is a turn to concepts. Second, […]

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Contra Polemic

By V. Joshua Adams Issue 4 March 11, 2021 Download PDF In the 1997 film directed and co-written by Roberto Benigni, La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), the main characters, including Guido (played by Benigni himself) and his five-year-old son Giosué, are deported from Tuscany to a Nazi concentration camp. To protect his son […]

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Sovereignty’s Alibi

By Naomi Waltham-Smith Issue 3 January 29, 2021 Download PDF What exactly is a counter-provocation? Against what does it stand or set itself? These questions are themselves provoked by a redoubled provocation: by a book series from University of Nebraska Press that advertises itself as a set of “Provocations” and that has spawned an online […]

Where Is Your Desire?

By Lisa Foran Issue 4 November 12, 2020 Download PDF “Where is your desire?” asks Lawrence Venuti in his polemic Contra Instrumentalism. Do you want to uphold the status quo by seeing translation as the mere technical transfer of an invariant meaning or effect from one language to another? Or, are you ready to understand […]

The Invariance Effect: A Response to Lawrence Venuti

By Stefan Helgesson Issue 4 May 12, 2020 Download PDF The hard question is this: Are some translations better than others? People certainly seem to think so—at least in the world of publishing, reviewing, and prize-giving. In the UK, the British Comparative Literature Association runs the John Dryden Competition to honor particularly deserving translation achievements. […]

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Faith in Abstraction: A response to Scott Ferguson’s Declarations of Dependence

By Scott Richmond Issue 2 February 14, 2020 Download PDF In the present moment—however you want to name and periodize it, but let’s just call it neoliberalism—both aesthetics and the practices of aesthetic critique seem to have lost whatever political force they may once have had. This is not necessarily because aesthetics seems no longer […]

Where Is My Desire?

By Chantal Wright Issue 4 February 13, 2020 Download PDF Translators [are] the jazz musicians of the literary world. They are there because they love the music and because they like playing together and improvising. — Maureen Freely [1] 1. Blue Train, Yellow Car OR Translation as jazz It is a provocation, I know, to […]