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The following article is the third of a three-part-series. The first installment can be found here, the second here. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. A New Science of the Word? Or, Grammatology, Again? Emerging out of the failure of the ceremony-finding, the necessity of a “new science of the […]
The following article is the second of a three-part-series. The first installment can be found here. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. Wynter’s Engagement with Derrida: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” In “The Ceremony Must Be Found”, Wynter’s use of the imperative – […]
The following article consists in a three-part-series. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. “The density of History determines none of my acts”-Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks[1] “unheard-of thoughts are required, thoughts that are sought across the memory of old signs” -Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon[2] “Human beings are magical”- […]
We have all built up walls, established boundaries, “Do Not Merge” lanes, rules and regulations that we set our lives up according to. We do this because the aspects of life that disrupt social order, that remind us of the horrors that exist beyond ourselves, are too much. Some of these walls, boundaries, rules, and […]
Participants are invited to join us live in the ninth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. You may sign up through the registration link below. All Critical Conversations will be recorded and republished along with edited transcripts. A related critical conversation on Neoliberalism and Political Theology […]
Participants are invited to join us live in the eighth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. If you have not participated in previous seminars, please provide us with a brief sentence or two […]
The following is the video and transcript of the second “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis and Whitestone Publications and involving international scholars. The seminar took place on September 22, 2020. Critical Conversations: Subjectivities Since the Sixties Jason Alvis: Thanks everyone for coming, I just want to welcome you to […]
Participants are invited to join us live in the third of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. Please state your professional or academic status, affiliation, and a brief sentence or two concerning why you […]
Neil Jordan’s film Byzantium (2012), which tells the story of a pair of mother/daughter vampires on the run from a male-only secret society of vampires known as Brotherhood, has been widely read as a feminist approach to the literary convention of the vampire. The depiction of female vampires that are neither villainized for a predatory relationships to men, […]
In my previous post, I discussed some of the parodic qualities by which the notion of madness occurred in the generation following Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. Many readers will easily see the fluid connection with Michel Foucault’s work, and it has been part of my intention in this series of posts to highlight […]