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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2021.0002

J. R. Miller

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The Contortions and Convolutions of the “Speculative Turn” “思辨转向”的起伏与卷积

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2021.0005

Thomas Sutherland

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Surface Turns 表面是

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2021.0006

Andrea Bachner

{"title":"Surface Turns","authors":"Andrea Bachner","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent methodological innovations in the humanities call on us to turn our attention toward the surface. Instead of looking for meaning beyond the objects under analysis we are asked to work with their textual and visual surfaces, thus eschewing symptomatic readings or critical exegesis. But this turn to the surface is not new. It does not even constitute a case of methodology catching up to theoretical trends of the past several decades where one of the foci was—time and again—an attention to surfaces: from poststructuralist obsessions with marked and textured surfaces to swan songs to complexity and opacity in the age of digital superficiality. When Donna Haraway diagnosed the turn from depth to surface as one of the traits of a paradigm shift from old hierarchies toward new networks of information and domination in her “Cyborg Manifesto,” she showed how surface turns are synchronized with changes in mediascapes and material imaginaries. By the same token, how “surface” is defined, imagined, and conceptualized in each instantiation of these turns differs widely. And each plea for work with the surface, often tied to claims of demystification, comes with its own agenda. In the face of repeated injunctions to turn toward the surface, we have either never been superficial enough or we have never been deep to begin with. And as the power of surface turns remains implicitly beholden to dichotomies (such as surface and depth), they do not do justice to the surface themselves, as they reduce and police a multiplicity of surface imaginaries. This essay proposes a new type of surface reading, not a reading of a textual surface, but a reading of surface figures; not a plea for defining a surface turn (or surface turns), but a reflection on how surface figures and claims for theoretical innovation can be thought together. After scrutinizing several turns to surfaces in theory, the essay turns to instances in which figures of the surface and of circularity intersect as a way of rethinking the binary between surface and depth and as a conduit for analyzing the force of the figure of the turn.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45180995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Images 图像

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0026

J. Eisler

{"title":"Images","authors":"J. Eisler","doi":"10.1353/dia.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"The reality I investigate is one that is mediated through screens and layers of technological interference. I describe something that is recognizable, but my primary concern is to understand how the abstractions inherent in the process determine the structure of an image. The indexical version of photographic reality is transformed as the painting uncovers unexpected narratives that exist within an image. Cinema is an illusion that we accept as an alternative reality. It is a device that can transform the spectator, shape our vision and identity, and is part of a shared culture. By pausing the narrative and isolating moments, I attempt to understand what we are seeing: straight lines do not exist, form wavers and blurs, but still, something is seen that we denote as being ”real.” Working with the pause button and a camera, I look for a precise instant that embodies an action, an emotion, and a psychological tension. Godard said that ”the cinema is truth at 24 frames per second.”1 I am interested in what happens when the temporality of cinema/reality is interrupted and explored with marks of paint. I photograph paused images of staged realities as they appear in a cinematic narrative on a monitor. I then make paintings of the resulting perceptual phenomena. I am not interested in the linear narrative that exists in the film, nor the linear perspective. I am concerned with the narrative that develops within the frame of the painting. Email: juditheisler@gmail.com Website: https://www.juditheisler.com/","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48378238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Glitch of Biometrics and the Error as Evasion: The Subversive Potential of Self-Effacement 生物计量学的闪光与作为逃避的错误：自我效能的颠覆潜力

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0028

C. Campanioni

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Queer Strategies of Gay History: Boswell's "Weapons", Foucault's Expérience 同性恋历史的酷儿策略：博斯韦尔的“武器”、福柯的经验

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0025

François·e Charmaille

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The Ecologies of Data Visualization 数据可视化的生态学

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0029

Benjamin Mangrum

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On Reflexive Racism: Disavowal, Deferment, and the Lacanian Subject 反思性种族主义：否认、叛逃与拉康主体

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0024

J. Black

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On Agamben's Slave without Slavery 论阿甘本的《没有奴隶制的奴隶

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0027

J. Glancy

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Colonial Metaphor, Colonial Metaphysics: On the Poetic Pairing of Blackness and Indianness 殖民隐喻，殖民形而上学:黑人与印度性的诗意配对

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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2022.0002

C. Infante

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