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Diacritics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a916404

P. Lorenz, Eliseo Valdés Erustes

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The Afropessimist Never Drinks the Kool-Aid of Black Enlightened Progress: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III 非洲悲观主义者从不喝黑人启蒙进步的苦艾酒：弗兰克-B-怀尔德森三世访谈录

Diacritics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a916403

Fernando Gomez Herrero, Frank B. Wilderson

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University and Its Other: On The Referent–We of Sylvia Wynter’s “No Humans Involved” 大学及其他者：论西尔维亚-温特 "没有人类参与 "的参照物--我们

Diacritics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a916401

Vero Chai

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Hot and Cold Borders: Sketches for a Geopolitics of Environmental Media 冷热边界：环境媒体地缘政治学草图

Diacritics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a916402

Francesco Zucconi

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Looking Together: Desiring Relations in James Baldwin 一起看詹姆斯-鲍德温眼中的欲望关系

Diacritics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a916400

M. Tuhkanen

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Uncertain Turns: Addressing Animal Trauma 不确定的转折：处理动物创伤

Diacritics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a908410

Natalie Lozinski-Veach

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Translation, Transference, Trouvaille: Derrida’s “what is a ‘Relevant’ Translation?” 翻译、转移、困扰：德里达的 "什么是'相关'翻译？

Diacritics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a908406

Michael G. Levine

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Kleist in Italy: An Icon of Gendered Conflicts 克莱斯特在意大利：性别冲突的象征

Diacritics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a908408

Mariaenrica Giannuzzi

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Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital 像鸟儿一样自由马克思《资本论》中作为自由和间隔的自然

Diacritics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a908409

Christina Chalmers

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Diacritics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.a908411

L. Dubreuil

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