{"title":"Beauty Is a Thing of the Past: The Idiom, the Monster, and the Democratic Health of Our Disciplines","authors":"Paula Cucurella","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0185","url":null,"abstract":"I will commence by stating “the problem”; my familiarity with it dates back to 2015, when I left the State University of New York at Buffalo to study creative writing at the University of Texas, El Paso, where I currently teach. Coming from an academic field, trained in philosophy and literary theory, I took the word “creative” (this new category that I was in principle authorized to use) as a new symbolic stamp in my writing passport. This diplomatic stamp granted me the right to a certain immunization from the restrictions of tedious quotations, MLA format, and certain creative tolls of having to pay to be published. There is probably no need to say that academic writers also use creativity, and some actively search for a style; they also need images, metaphors, and literary techniques. And insofar as they like having readers, they are concerned with the attractiveness, elegance, and clarity of their writing.","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77809637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Verbivocovisual Revolution: Anti-Literature, Affect, Politics, and World Literature in Augusto de Campos","authors":"Adam Joseph Shellhorse","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0147","url":null,"abstract":"AU G U S T O D E CA M P O S’S C R I T I C A L F O R T U N E H A S B E E N B U R D E N E D B Y A deep-seated uncertainty: is his poetry really poetry or does it constitute a sui generis antipoetry? Moreover, does his project ultimately articulate novel modalities of affect, perception, and language that contest Brazilian antidemocracy and what Carlo Galli has called “technology’s planetary domination” during the global electronic boom (2010, 112)? In short, can we reconceive Campos’s canny drive to stage the contemporary in his prototypes as a means to unsettle North/South world literature paradigms and contribute to global discourse? At a mega retrospective in 2016, Campos underscored fundamental aspects of his endeavor:","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80128752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reanimating the Domestic Still Life","authors":"Ashley Brock","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"T H I S A R T I C L E C O N S I D E R S D E S C R I P T I O N S O F V A C A N T I N T E R I O R S I N postdictatorial Southern Cone literature and film as self-reflexive memory work that, in evoking the horrors of political violence in conjunction with ostensibly tranquil domestic scenes, reinscribes the domestic sphere in historical time. Focusing on the work of Patricio Guzmán, Paz Encina, and Juan José Saer, I argue that the practice of describing empty homes serves not only to underscore the absence of their disappeared occupants but also to question the political dimensions of nostalgia. For survivors of the military dictatorships in Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina, the desire to longingly reconstruct a more innocent time and space before politics intruded upon domesticity plays all too easily into the nationalistic nostalgia key to the conservative ideology of these regimes. This article contends that, in film as in literature, the objectivist technique of pausing the narration to reproduce photograph-","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91362571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intersections of Politics, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Life in Contemporary Chilean Criticism and Art","authors":"Kate Jenckes","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0023","url":null,"abstract":"WI L L Y TH A Y E R O P E N S H I S B O O K TE C N O L O G Í A S D E L A C R Í T I C A WITH THE provocative statement that criticism—which connotes critical thought, critique, and theory as well as art—is inevitably related to life: “As though criticism and life always belonged, in each case, to the same band” (2010, 11). Indeed, the figure of life has been a central concern of critical theory, from discussions of the relations between life, history, representation, and power in the work of such thinkers as Heidegger, Benjamin, Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Esposito, and others, to more recent considerations of technological advances in biopower, different configurations of the posthuman, and the unforeseeable extremes of the anthropocene. Such reflections have been","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84309594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impotence of Sovereignty: Temporality and Repetition in History","authors":"P. Dove","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.1.0103","url":null,"abstract":"TH E H I S T O R Y O F M O D E R N P H I L O S O P H I C A L A N D P O L I T I C A L T H I N K I N G A B O U T sovereignty and the subject is marked by contradiction, the attempted resolutions of which give shape to this history while also tending to soften its rough edges, breaks, and inconsistencies—thereby always threatening to render it as something other than history. One such contradiction inheres to the term subject itself in what are seemingly two distinct modes or meanings: subject as subordinated and beholden to an external authority on the one hand, and subject as the proper agent of self-determination on the other. It is the positionality, the relational “beneathness” designated by the term sub-ject, that allows for these diametrically opposed meanings. The first meaning, subject as subordination, translates the Latin subjectus (lying below), synonymous with subditus or being subjugated to a higher authority. The other meaning, subject as autonomous agent, translates the Latin subjectum (foundation or subject of a proposition), which in turn translates Aristotle’s","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91137461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Bio- to Eco-Deconstruction","authors":"Matthias Fritsch","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87409109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signatures of Life: Thinking the Logos of Life After Biodeconstruction","authors":"Sorelle Henricus","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73508478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Auto-Affective and Self-Referential Structure of Life in Derrida","authors":"Satoru Yoshimatsu","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84991945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge Production and Knowledge of Life","authors":"Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.3.0129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73348359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}