Angelaki

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    To Enter the Core of Death.Marta Aleksandrowicz - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):90-101.
    This essay explores figurations of death in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Água Viva. As the other side of life, death in these novels is tied to the work of the unconscious desire that introduces generative rupture to the narrators’ experience of being, thinking, and writing. In making one wander at the limits of thought, language, and being, death also signals the encounter with femininity which leads to the disintegration of the human montage. While in Água Viva the (...)
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    In the Shadows of the Cosmos.Tyler Correia - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):68-78.
    Clarice Lispector’s texts are a peculiar combination of socio-political analysis and cosmological excess. Commentators on her works have explored either of these two dimensions but have not yet brought them into a singular dialogue. I argue that Lispector insists upon an ethical responsibility in her refusal to disregard the microcosm of a “marginal” life even within a cosmos of her own creation. For this reason, her critique is inextricable from these excesses. The displacement of narrative authority in a method of (...)
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    The Failure of Language Amidst the Joy of Grace.Colby Dickinson - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):102-112.
    For Clarice Lispector, language is a sacrament on dazzling display in her work, where the celebration of writing and the emergence of a creative consciousness through the act of writing about writing access an immanent experience of grace beyond any historical religious sensibility. In this, she simultaneously accesses the “great potency of potentiality” that is an experience of freedom undoing anything bound up by language. She embraces the failure of language as the “glory of falling,” the useless experience of grace, (...)
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    Affective Consisting in Lispector’s an apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures.Irving Goh - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):79-89.
    At first glance, Clarice Lispector’s An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1969) might read like a regression from her earlier feminist and anti-Hegelian Passion According to G.H. (1964), given the female protagonist Lóri’s deference in large part to the male character Ulisses. I argue in this essay that any suspicion of such a philosophical letdown can be easily dispelled if we attend to Lóri’s attunement to affects and her immersion in them. As will be explicated in this essay, such (...)
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    We are all the Smallest Woman in the World.Luz Horne & Translated by Jane Brodie - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):45-56.
    This essay explores the place in Clarice Lispector’s literature that seeks to touch a primary ground of the living with a language that exceeds the symbolic in order to read it from an anthropocenic, posthuman, and feminist present. It argues that the story “A menor mulher do mundo” (Laços de família, 1960) takes to an extreme what happens in all of Lispector’s literature at the point that we can find in Macabéa’s character from A hora da estrela (1976), a sort (...)
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    Lispector’s Halo.Daae Jung & João Paulo Guimarães - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):33-44.
    In her last novella, The Hour of the Star, Lispector makes plain that the brilliance of life – any life whatever – lies in its capacity to endlessly contemplate itself and that as such it is inseparable from its mode of contemplation. As we will suggest in this article, Lispector’s view of life as living contemplation resonates with Giorgio Agamben’s conception of being as potentiality. In the last installment of his Homo Sacer series, The Use of Bodies, Agamben tries to (...)
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    Clarice Lispector’s Philosophy of Time.Paula Marchesini - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):125-135.
    Clarice Lispector puts forth nothing less than a complete philosophy of time in her writings, that is, a cohesive philosophical examination of what time is, of its physics and metaphysics, of how humans and animals perceive time, and even an innovative aesthetic theory in which time is the inspiring force giving rise to literary and artistic creation. Her view of time is unique in the Western philosophical canon, offering original solutions to many of time’s classic difficulties. For Lispector, time is (...)
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    Could it be that what I’m writing to you is Behind Thought?Jean-Luc Nancy & Translated by Fernanda Negrete - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):136-140.
    This text gives an account of the experience of reading Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva in the form of a brief dialogue with the text. It foregrounds the writing voice’s address of a second person and the attention this address brings to the acts of writing and reading that hold the two pronouns in relation, producing at once an infinite and nonexistent distance from being to being. The dialogue observes Lispector’s insistent return to the formulation “atrás do pensamento,” which has been (...)
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    Philosophy with Clarice Lispector.Fernanda Negrete - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):1-2.
    For the past forty years, philosophers and critical theorists around the world have been fascinated by Clarice Lispector’s writing; her work, however, carries its own, unique theoretical dimension,...
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  10. Could it be that what I’m writing to you is Behind Thought?: (dialogue with água viva by clarice lispector) 1.Fernanda Negrete & Jean-Luc Nancy - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):136-140.
    This text gives an account of the experience of reading Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva in the form of a brief dialogue with the text. It foregrounds the writing voice’s address of a second person and the attention this address brings to the acts of writing and reading that hold the two pronouns in relation, producing at once an infinite and nonexistent distance from being to being. The dialogue observes Lispector’s insistent return to the formulation “atrás do pensamento,” which has been (...)
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    To Write is to Think [The Is-] Being.Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):6-18.
    This article presents Clarice Lispector’s view on writing, showing that for her literature is the writing of the act of writing itself. In question is the writing of the act while acting, the is-being of existence. In this sense, Lispector described her writing as the writing of a screaming object, as abstract writing, almost a painting. Following some central passages of different works, the article is an attempt to seize the main traits of what could be called the gerundive act (...)
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    When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds.Rodante van der Waal, Kim Schoof & Aukje van Rooden - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):57-67.
    Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Lispector makes a key contribution to the (...)
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    All of Nothing.Krzysztof Ziarek - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (2):113-124.
    The essay develops a parallax between Lispector and Heidegger with regard to the question of being: being not as an idea or a concept, or as anything substantive, but being in the spatio-temporal sense of being in being, of the event which lets each instant of “in being” take place. Instantiating this proximity, the essay focuses on dis-humanization and the role that openness to nothingness plays in this context. Lispector’s writings, especially Passion, illustrate how what hinders the true humanity of (...)
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    Learning Waters.Gil Anidjar - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):99-110.
    I teach with water. It’s nothing very remarkable and I myself do not remember how I settled upon water as a most convenient introduction to what I have to teach, which is to say, to learn. Did not everything begin with water? My own beginnings, in any case, would border on the banal, if they did not signify so much about where I live (race and class) and how I teach (tradition, institution, location), the liberties I can responsibly take, or (...)
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    A TIMEFUL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE: thunderstorms, dams, and the disclosure of planetary history.Kieran M. Murphy - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):87-98.
    Hydrological landscapes played a significant role in the elaboration of Gaston Bachelard’s and Martin Heidegger’s historical epistemologies. More specifically, both philosophers relied on hydroelectric landscapes to explore nonlinear time and profound epistemological shifts in the history of knowledge. The landscapes they invoke are composed of hydroelectric dams, thunderstorms, and related landmarks like mountains, rivers, and lakes. Together, these varied yet connected elements offer rich environmental and conceptual terrains that I revisit to situate human knowledge formation within a much older natural (...)
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    FIGURATIONS OF WATER: on pathogens, purity, and contamination.Agnieszka Pantuchowicz - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):111-127.
    The paper addresses some rhetorical uses of the figure of water management from the perspective of an affirmative approach to contamination which Derrida saw as constitutive of affirmation itself. Contaminated water and its discontents discussed in the text frequently appears in various kinds of writings as a frightening figure of contamination which simultaneously brings in the figure of water management as a way of controlling the purity of cultural exchanges and transmissions in which, as Caroline Petronius puts it, contagion journeys (...)
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    The Other Water.Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):139-143.
    The water’s voice is tetchy, angry even. It is something to do with measurements and enclosures. Or perhaps with humanity in general. The water speaks to no one in particular. A gargling monologue about vastness and death, its exoplanetary itineraries and its chthonic hideaways, its elements and qualities, even its lack of voice. Even so, the water’s voice enters a subaquatic communication with two other bodies, genderless, formless, in constant becoming. These are both human and non-human bodies, their ways of (...)
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    INTERCORPOREITY OF ANIMATED WATER: contesting anthropocentric settler sovereignty.Joseph Pugliese - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):22-35.
    In this essay, I examine the relationality between life and water in the context of its intercorporeal manifestations. Drawing on key aspects of Merleau-Pontian phenomenology, my concern is to reflect on water’s enfleshment of life and its complex ecologies of intercorporeity. These Merleau-Pontian key aspects, I note, are in close dialogue with a number of Indigenous cosmo-epistemologies that envisage the world as constituted by profound ecologies of intercorporeal relationality. The loci of my analysis are the Sonoran Desert and the lands (...)
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    Water.Tomasz Sikora & Ewa Macura-Nnamdi - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):1-2.
    Water does rather than is. It wets, humidifies, evaporates, crystallizes, permeates, fills, leaks, drips, trickles, softens, hardens, congeals, dilutes, shapes, drills, erodes, corrodes, bonds, dis...
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    Water.Tomasz Sikora & Ewa Macura-Nnamdi - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):3-8.
    There are not enough mouths to utterAll your fleeting names, O water.– Wisława Szymborska, “Water”Wisława Szymborska’s poetic take on water is driven by a paradox. On the one hand, the poem speaks...
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    A Sinking Empire.Mikki Stelder - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):53-72.
    This article pivots around the work of early modern legal scholar Hugo Grotius to consider the political stakes of ontological assessments of the sea and water in the context of Dutch imperialism. It draws on links with land reclamation projects in the Netherlands, while at the same time ties these to urgent questions within contemporary critical water and ocean studies around water, ontology, and race. Suggesting a rethinking of Grotius’s understanding of the ocean as perpetual res nullius – perpetually ownerless (...)
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    HYDROPOWER: residual dwelling between life and nonlife.Edwige Tamalet Talbayev - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):9-21.
    This essay reflects on the concept of “hydropower” – the corrosive power of seawater to amalgamate Life and Nonlife in the context of migrant deaths in the waters of the Mediterranean. Through a focus on drowned bodies’ dissolution and eventual sedimentation into their deep-sea surroundings, my approach interrelates the order of biopolitical violence enacted by Europe’s restrictive migration policies and the thick time of the geophysical. The degradation of bodies under the influence of hydropower reveals residual ontologies marked by porousness (...)
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    MÈRE MÉTAPHORE : the maternal materiality of water in astrida neimanis’s bodies of water.Eszter Timár - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):128-138.
    Bridging feminist new materialism and feminist phenomenology, Astrida Neimanis’s volume, Bodies of Water, discusses water in terms of nurturing maternality based on a figural reservoir of what she terms “amniotics” and “planetary breastmilk” in order to posit this maternality as the material condition of the embodiment of life. In this article I show that this imagery is a construction consistently haunted by figures of anxiety and loss. I do this by first revisiting earlier interventions in deconstruction concerning materiality and feminist (...)
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    Social Property in the Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia 2000.Massimiliano Tomba - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):73-86.
    The Cochabamba water war in 2000 was the first water war of the twenty-first century. During the mobilizations in Bolivia, a factory workers’ manifesto read: “We don’t want private property nor state property, but self-management and social property.” The social practices of many Cochabambinos and Cochabambinas did not defend water as an object. They supported forms of life in common and a way of practicing democracy in the politics of presence. They recalled traditional usos y costumbres, which have been reconfigured (...)
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    JUST KEEP SWIMMING?: queer pooling and hydropoetics.Maite Urcaregui & Jeremy Chow - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (1):36-52.
    By bringing queer ecologies to bear on the blue humanities, this essay promotes a queer hydropoetic investigation that attends to the forms, aesthetics, and politics of pools. Pools are sites of aquatic enjoyment, sport, and revelation that have long been understudied within the blue humanities. We ask whether the promises and failures of swimming in these geographies can provide a queer heuristic in which submersion, immersion, and staying afloat subtend coming out, queer eroticism, and queer of color coalitional politics. Our (...)
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