Gavin Walker

Professor

Publications

Books:

The Rarity of Politics: Passages from Structure to Subject (London: Verso, forthcoming).

Marx et la politique du dehors (Montréal: Lux Éditeur, 2022).

The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2016). 

Foucault’s Late Politics, edited by Gavin Walker, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 121, no. 4 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2022).

Ronsô no buntai: Nihon shihonshugi to tôchi sôchi [Styles of the 'Debate': Japanese Capitalism and the Apparatuses of Governance], edited by Yutaka Nagahara and Gavin Walker (Tokyo: Hôsei University Press, Ohara Institute for Social Research, 2023).

The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68, edited by Gavin Walker (Verso, 2020).

Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Kojin Karatani, translated, edited and with an introduction by Gavin Walker (Verso, 2020).

The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History, a special issue of positions: asia critique, edited by Gavin Walker and Naoki Sakai, vol. 27, no. 1 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2019).

Articles and chapters:

“The Relapses of the Universal: Translation and the Language of the Political” in Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics, edited by Gavin Arnall and Katie Chenoweth (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2024).

“Lenin, Partisan of the Conjuncture” in LENIN: The Heritage We (Don’t) Renounce, ed. Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn and Patrick Anderson (Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2024), 120-123.

“Singular Unverifiability” in CLS: Comparative Literature Studies, 60:2, ACLA Symposium on Gayatri Spivak’s Death of a Discipline after 20 years (Penn State: Penn State University Press, 2023).

“What Comes After ‘Area’? The Nomos of the Modern in Times of Crisis” in Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of the Pax Americana, eds. Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, and Peter Button (London: Routledge, 2023), 173-198.

“‘Furuki mono’ to zanshi: Ronsô no ‘jiseigaku’teki saisotei” (“The Archaic and the Remnant: Chronopolitics of the Debate on Japanese Capitalism” in ‘Ronsô’ no buntai: Nihon shihonshugi to tôchi sôchi [The Style of the ‘Debate’: On Japanese Capitalism and its Governing Apparatuses], co-edited by Yutaka Nagahara and Gavin Walker (Tokyo: Hôsei University Press, Ôhara Institute for Social Research, 2023), 243-285.

“Rekishiteki na koto no gûyu: Ronsô no kokusaiteki saisotei no tame ni”  (“Allegories of the Historical: The Debate on Japanese Capitalism in Global Perspective”) in ‘Ronsô’ no buntai: Nihon shihonshugi to tôchi sôchi [The Style of the ‘Debate’: On Japanese Capitalism and its Governing Apparatuses], co-edited by Yutaka Nagahara and Gavin Walker (Tokyo: Hôsei University Press, Ôhara Institute for Social Research, 2023), 405-423.

“The Will to Strategy: Foucault’s Interregnum, 1976-79” in Foucault’s Late Politics, edited by Gavin Walker, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 121, no. 4 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2022), 713-734.

“The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory” in Foucault’s Late Politics, edited by Gavin Walker, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 121, no. 4 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2022), 645-653.

“The Wager and the Wage: Reading Kawashima Reading Uno” in Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis: A Symposium, edited by Gavin Walker, a special issue of episteme, no. 9 (positions: politics) (2022).

“Non-Capital and the Torsion of the Subject” in Accumulation and Subjectivity: Rethinking Marx in Latin America, ed. Karen Benezra (New York: SUNY Press, 2022), 295-313.

“Nationalism and the National Question” in The SAGE Handbook of Marxism, eds. Farris, Skeggs, Toscano (London: SAGE, 2022), 366-386.

“Uno Kôzô’s Theory of Crisis Today,” co-written with Ken Kawashima, Introduction to Uno Kôzô, Theory of Crisis, trans. Ken Kawashima (Leiden: Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2021; paperback forthcoming from Haymarket, 2022), 177-202.

"Le marxisme et les années rouges au Japon. Entretien avec Gavin Walker" in Contretemps, 12 July 2021.

“Rethinking Japan’s Red Years: An Interview with Gavin Walker” in Spectre, 9 July 2021. 

“The Theory and Practice of Marxism in Japan” in Jacobin, 3 July 2021. 

“Fascism and the Metapolitics of Imperialism” in Historical Materialism, 8 May 2021. 

“The Political Afterlives of Yukio Mishima” in Jacobin, 25 November 2020. 

“The Red Years: An Interview with Gavin Walker on Japan’s 1968,” Verso Books, 20 November 2020.

“The Post-’68 Conjuncture” in The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68, ed. Gavin Walker (London: Verso, 2020), 229-236.

“Revolution and Retrospection” in The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68, ed. Gavin Walker (London: Verso, 2020), 1-11.

“Marxist Theory in Japan: A Critical Overview,” Historical Materialism, November 15, 2020.

“The World of the Outside” in Marx, Asia, and the History of the Present, episteme, no. 3 (positions: politics), edited by Gavin Walker, October 2020.

“The Discreet Charm of Coronavirus” in episteme, no. 2, positions: politics, May 2020.

“Karatani’s Marx” in Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Kôjin Karatani, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gavin Walker (London: Verso, 2020), xi-xxvii.

“The Homeland(s) of Marxism: Labour Power, Race, and Nation after Capital” in Capital in the East, eds. Anjan Chakrabarti et al (Springer Publishing, 2019), 47-67.

“The Accumulation of Difference and the Logic of Area” in The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History, a special issue of positions: asia critique, vol. 27, no. 1, edited by Gavin Walker and Naoki Sakai (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2019), 67-98.

“The End of Area” (co-written with Naoki Sakai) in The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History, a special issue of positions: asia critique, vol. 27, no. 1, edited by Gavin Walker and Naoki Sakai (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2019), 1-31.

“Le marxisme au Japon : Guide de lecture” in Période: révue de théorie marxiste (January 2019).

“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: History, Politics, and Repetition” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, ed. Imre Szeman et al(London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

“Marx in Japan” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, ed. Imre Szeman et al(London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

“The Schema of the West and the Apparatus of Capture: Variations on Deleuze and Guattari” in Deleuze Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 210-235.

“Surplus alongside Excess: Uno Kôzô, Imperialism, and the Theory of Crisis,” co-written with Ken Kawashima, in Viewpoint 6: Imperialism, February 2018.

“On the Politics of Postcoloniality: Return(s) of the National Question in Marxist Theory” in Viewpoint 6: Imperialism, February 2018.

Roundtable on “Art, Society/Text: A Few Remarks on the Current Relations of the Class Struggle in the Fields of Literary Production and Literary Ideologies” (with Karen Benezra, Bruno Bosteels, Tom Eyers, Sami Khatib, and Samo Tomšič) in ARTMargins, vol. 6, no. 3 (Boston: MIT Press, October 2017), 70-75.

“The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide’s Phenomenology of Matter” in Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy, ed. Murthy, Schaefer, and Ward (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 229-262.

“Tanigawa Gan and the Poetics of the Origin” in positions: asia critique, vol. 25, no. 2 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2017), 351-387.

“The ‘Ideal Total Capitalist’: On the State-Form in the Critique of Political Economy” in Crisis & Critique, special issue on The Critique of Political Economy, November 2016, 434-455.

“Challenging Abe’s Japan” in Jacobin, 13 November 2015. 

“Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy” in Repeating Žižek (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015), 195-212.

“The Regime of Translation and the Figure of Politics” in Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal, no. 4, special issue on “Politics” edited by Sandro Mezzadra and Naoki Sakai (Rimini: Raffaelli Editore, 2014), 30-52.

“Primitive Accumulation and the State-Form: National Debt as an Apparatus of Capture” in Viewpoint 4: The State, October 2014.

“The Reinvention of Communism: Politics, History, Globality” in South Atlantic Quarterly (113.4), special issue on Communist Currents, eds. Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean (Duke University Press, 2014), 671-685. 

“Filmic Materiality and Historical Materialism: Tosaka Jun and the Prosthetics of Sensation,” in Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader, eds. Ken Kawashima, Fabian Schaefer, and Robert Stolz (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), 218-254.

“The Absent Body of Labour Power: Uno Kôzô’s Logic of Capital” in Historical Materialism, vol. 21, no. 4, Autumn 2013 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 1-34. 

“Limits and Openings of the Party: A Reply to Jason E. Smith” in Theory and Event 16.4 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). 

“The Body of Politics: On the Concept of the Party” in Theory & Event 16.4 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

“Seijikeizai(gaku) hihan to kokka keitai: <Fukushi> to shihon no yokudô” (The Critique of Political Economy and the State-Form: ‘Welfare’ and the Drive of Capital) in Jôkyô, supplemental volume no. 2 (Tokyo: Jôkyô Shuppan, June 2013), 119-140.

“Citizen-Subject and the National Question: On the Logic of Capital in Balibar” in Postmodern Culture, (22.3) special issue on the work of Étienne Balibar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2013).

“On Marxism’s Field of Operation: Badiou and the Critique of Political Economy” in Historical Materialism, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer 2012 (Leiden: Brill), 39-74.

“Gendai shihonshugi ni okeru ‘minzoku mondai’ no kaiki: Posutokoroniaru kenkyû no aratana seijiteki dôkô” (“The Return of the National Question in Contemporary Capitalism: New Political Directions in Postcolonial Studies”) in Shisô, no. 1059, July 2012 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 122-147.

“The World of Principle, or Pure Capitalism: Exteriority and Suspension in Uno Kôzô” in The Journal of International Economic Studies, no. 26 (Tokyo: Hôsei University, Institute for Comparative Economic Studies, 2012), 15-37.

“Shihon no sekai ni okeru ‘gaitô no jijitsu’: Kyôkô, kokka, kokusai”(“The ‘Facts of the Streets’ in the World of Capital: Crisis, State, and the National Debt”) in Gendai shisô: Revue de la pensée d’aujourd’hui, no. 40-2 (Tokyo: Seidosha, February 2012), 96-109.

“The Dignity of Communism: Badiou’s Communist Hypothesis,” in Socialism and Democracy, vol. 25, no. 3 (London: Routledge, 2011), 130-139.

“Primitive Accumulation and the Formation of Difference: On Marx and Schmitt,” in Rethinking Marxism, vol. 23, no. 3 (London: Taylor & Francis, 2011), 384-404.

“Postcoloniality and the National Question in Marxist Historiography: Elements of the Debate on Japanese Capitalism,” in Interventions, vol. 13, no. 1 (London: Taylor & Francis, 2011), 120-137.

“Shihon no puroretariateki reido: gaibu no seijiteki butsurigaku” (“Capital’s Proletarian Degree Zero: The Political Physics of the Outside”) in Seiji keizaigaku no seiji tetsugakuteki fukken: Riron no rironteki ‘rinkai-gaibu’ ni mukete (Political-Philosophical Resurrections of Political Economy: Towards the Theoretical Limit/Outside of Theory), ed. Nagahara Yutaka (Tokyo: Hôsei University Press, 2011), 351-390.

“Postcoloniality in Translation: Historicities of the Present,” in Postcolonial Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (London: Taylor & Francis, 2011), 111-126.

“Kenryoku toshite no shihon: Seijiteki kake to kyô no kishôsei” (“Capital as Power: The Political Wager and the Rarity of the Commons”), Muri to iu iki to kyô no seisan (The Threshold of Excess [muri] and the Production of the Commons) Part 2, in Jôkyô, October 2010 (Tokyo: Jôkyô Shuppan, 2010), 185-203.

“Shihon no kigenteki iki: hida toshite no rôdôryoku” (“Capital’s Originary Threshold: Labor Power as Fold”), Muri to iu iki to kyô no seisan (The Threshold of Excess [muri] and the Production of the Commons) Part 1, in Jôkyô, May 2010 (Tokyo: Jôkyô Shuppan, 2010), 120-134.         

“The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine” in positions: east asia cultures critique 18: 1, Spring 2010 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 145-169.

------. “The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine,” reprinted in Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture, eds. Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent (London: Routledge, 2010), 164-185.

“The Filmic Time of Coloniality" in Mechademia 4: War/Time (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 3-18.

“On ‘the End’: Mishima Yukio and the Double Dislocation of Literature,” in Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, vol. 9: Literature and Literary Theory, eds. Atsuko Ueda and Richard H. Okada (Summer 2008), 240-246.

Klarman Hall
317 Klarman Hall
gavin.walker@cornell.edu

Education

  • Cornell (PhD)
  • Penn (BA, MA)

Departments and programs

Karen Pinkus

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature

Publications

Books

  • Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)
  • ​Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary. (University of Minnesota Press, 2016); Carburanti. Un dizionario per un pianeta in crisi, translated by Riccardo Donati and Caterina Ragghianti (Verona: Ombrecorte, 2021)
  • Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (Stanford University Press, 2009)
  • The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
  • Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
  • Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)

Translations

  • Translation and edition of Francesco Adinolfi, Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions and Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation (Duke University Press, 2008)
  • Renato Barilli, A Course in Aesthetics (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
  • Giorgio Agamben, Language and Death, with Michael Hardt (University of Minnesota Press, 1991)

Selected Shorter Writings

  • (2022) “Materialità e ambivalenza: Arte Povera, Una geneologia alchemica,” in Pensiero in immagine. Forme, metodi, oggetti teorici per un Italian Visual Thought, collana Quaderni della ricerca (Università Iuav di Venezia-Mimesis), editors, Angela Mengoni and Francesco Zucconi.
  • (2021), “Four Theses for the Coming Deserts,” with Hans Baumann. In The Invention of the American Desert, eds. Lyle Massey and James Nisbet. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • (2020) “138, 462 Carbon Pyramids,” co-written with Hans Baumann. Strelka Magazine. 14.08, “The Revenge of the Real”
  • (2020) “Reflections on a Winter Scene,” Collateral Journal, invited contribution for Collisions Series (Belgium)
  • (2018) "They Would have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe." Commissioned afterward to Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire, edited by Nathan Hensley and Philip Steer. Fordham University Press
  • (2018) "Crystalline Basement," Images of Accumulation essay, co-written with artist Hans Baumann. E-flux journal
  • (2016) “Intermittent Grids,” South Atlantic Quarterly special issue on Autonomia and Anthropocene, edited by Bruce Braun and Sara Nelson
  • (2016) “Air,” (excerpt from Fuel) in Dominick Boyer and Imre Szeman, eds. The Energy Humanities Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
  • (2016) “Humans and Fuels, Bíos and Zōe,” chapter in A Cultural History of Climate Change, eds. Tom Ford and Tom Bristow. London: Routledge (environmental humanities series)
  • (2014), “Le missive precarie di Alighiero Boetti,” volume on precariousness edited by Monica Jansen and Silvia Contarini. Verona: OmbreCorte
  • (2014) “Search for a Language: Response to Ian Baucom,” invited respondent to essay by Ian Baucom, “Postcolonial Method and Anthropocene Time,” in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Studies, eds. Debjani Ganguly, Ato Quayson, Neil ten Kortenaar
  • (2014), “Silent Running: Notes for The Remake,” special issue of Yearbook of Comparative Literature, edited by Paul North and Eyal Peretz on “Ideas of Nature.”
  • (2014) “Risk,” essay for Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy, Ed. Imre Szeman, et. al. forthcoming from Fordham University Press
  • (2013)“Thinking Diverse Futures from a Carbon Present,” Symploke vol. 21, nos. 1-2 (special issue on Critical Climate)
  • (2012) “Hybrid Futures from a Carbon Present,” Symploke vol. 21, no. 1 (special issue on Critical Climate–forthcoming)
  • (2012) “Ambiguity, Ambience, Ambivalence, and the Environment,” Common Knowledge 19:1 (December) (Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4), pp. 88-95.
  • (2012) “Nature (of Betrayal),” New Centennial Review 12.1 special issue on Betrayal, editors Richard Block and Michael du Plessis
  • (2012) “Selling Gasoline in Autarchic Italy,” in Figura umana. Normkonzepte der Menschendarstellung in der italienischen Kunst 1919-1939. Eckhard Leuschner, ed. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag: 151-160
  • (2012) “Dematerialization from Arte Povera to Cybermoney through Italian Thought,” diacritics, vol. 39.3 (2009), 65-77
  • (2011)  “Antonioni, Cinematic Poet of Climate Change,” in Antonioni, Centenary Essays, edited by John David Rhodes and Laura Rascaroli.  London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
  • (2011) “The Risks of Sustainability,” in Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative. Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk, editor Paul Crosthwaite. London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 62-80
  • (2010) “Sustainability: a Dialogue with Images,” with Cameron Tonkinwise, World Picture Journal (December)
  • (2010) “Carbon Management: A Gift of Time?” Oxford Literary Review 32 (July), 51-70.
  • (2010) “At the End: Cinema After Climate Change” (Udine Permanent Film Studies Conference Proceedings)
  • (2010) “The Rome of Pasolini’s Petrolio,” with Paolo Matteucci, Annali d’talianistica (special double issue on Rome)
  • (2008) “Nothing From Nothing: Alchemy and the Economic Crisis,” World Picture Journal (November)
  • (2008) “On Cars, Climate and Literary Theory,” Technology and Culture (October)
Klarman Hall
K269 Klarman Hall
kep44@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Jonathan B. Monroe

Professor

Publications

BOOKS

Framing Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History,  Politics. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, hardback and digital 2019, paperback 2021.

Roberto Bolaño in Context. Editor and co-author. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming August 2022.  


Demosthenes’ Legacy (prose poems, short fiction). Tokyo and Toronto: Ahadada Books, 2009.
Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell. Editor and co-author. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003; second edition, 2006.
Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Editor and co-author. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

 

BOOK IN PROGRESS

Appositional Poetics, Poetry's Knowledge: Poetry Among Discourses and Media
 

SPECIAL ISSUES

Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries II. “Aftershock: Poetry and Cultural Politics Since 1989.” Editor and co-author. Poetics Today 21.1 (Spring 2000).
Poetry, Community, Movement. Editor and co-author. Diacritics 26.3–4 (Fall–Winter 1996).

SELECTED ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, TRANSLATIONS (2003—)

“Mapping Bolaño’s Worlds.” Roberto Bolaño in Context. Ed. Jonathan B. Monroe. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming August 2022.

“Transnational, Intermedial Pressures in Roberto Bolaño’s Prose Poem Novels.” Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel. Ed. Juan E. DeCastro and Ignacio López-Calvo. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming spring/summer 2022.

“Genre.” Literature Now—Key Terms and Methods for Literary History. Ed. Sascha Bru, Ben de Bruyn & Michel Delville. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 252-264 and 296-298.
“Urgent Matter.” “What Is a Thing?” Special issue of Konturen. Ed. Nicholas Reynolds and Jeffrey S. Librett. Vol 8, 2015, 8-39.

“Los amores y juegos del joven Berger” (on Roberto Bolaño’s El Tercer Reich). In Bolaño salvaje. Ed. Edmundo Paz Soldán y Gustavo Faverón Patriau. Canet de Mar (Barcelona): Editorial Candaya, 2ndn nd edition, 2013, 487-506.
“Autrement dire : La poussée vers l'abstraction de Rosmarie Waldrop.” In Dossier: Lorrine Niedecker-Alejandra Pizarnik- Rosmarie Waldrop. Cahier critique de poésie. Ed. Jean Daive. Marseille: Centre international de poésie. Collection, Cahier critique de poésie. Paris: Gallimard, No. 26, 2013, 86-89.
“Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds” (on Edouard Glissant). In Tradition, Trauma, Translation: The Classic and the Modern. Ed. Timothy Mathews and Jan Parker. Oxford University Press, 2011, 155-174.
“Philosophy, Poetry, Parataxis.” In Philosophy as a Literary Art: Making Things Up. Ed. Costica Bradatan. New York and London: Routledge, 2014; rpt. from The European Legacy 14 (5), 2009, 599-611; Rpt. from The European Legacy 14.5 (2009), 599-611.
 

Klarman Hall
K305 Klarman Hall
jbm3@cornell.edu
607/255-4155

Education

Davidson College, B.A.
University of Oregon, Ph.D.

 

 

Departments and programs

Links

Natalie Melas

Associate Professor

Publications

  • All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford UP, 2007) (ACLA René Wellek Prize Honorable Mention 2008)
  • co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (Princeton UP, 2009). 
  • "Poetry's Circumstance and Racial Time (Aimé Césaire, 1935-1945 or thereabouts)" special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on Cesaire and Negritude, July 2016
  • "Afterlives of Comparison: Equivalence, Value, Literature" for Ronan McDonald, ed, The Values of Literary Studies: Critical institutions, Scholarly Agendas. Cambridge University Press 2015
  • "Comparative Non-Contemporaneities: Ernst Bloch and C.L.R. James" in Daniel Stout and Jason Potts, ed. Theory Aside. Duke University Press, 2014.
Klarman Hall
K204 Klarman Hall
nam5@cornell.edu
607/2554155

Departments and programs

Links

Tracy McNulty

Professor

Publications

Books

Emancipation by Relay: Transmission in Psychoanalysis (nearing completio).

Libertine Mathematics: Perversions of the Linguistic Turn (nearing completion).

Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). 

The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). 

Edited volumes:

Erin Graff-Zivin and Tracy McNulty, guest editors, Women in Theory?, special issue of diacritics with papers by Maria del Rosario Acosta, Kendra Atkin, Natalie Belisle, Karen Benezra, Valeria Campos Salvaterra, Penelope Deutscher, Norah Fulton, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Adriana Johnson, Anna Kornbluh, Christina León, Julia Ng, Erin Graff-Zivin, Elissa Marder, and Rocio Zambrana. Diacritics volume 49, no 2 (2021). 

Tracy McNulty, editor, “Constructing the Death Drive,” special issue of Differences with essays by Willy Apollon, Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey Librett, Tracy McNulty, Steven Miller, and Daniel Wilson. Differences 28:2 (Spring 2017).

Jason Frank and Tracy McNulty, guest editors, “Taking Exception to the Exception,” special issue of diacritics with papers by Susan Buck-Morss, Jason Frank, Dominiek Hoens, Bonnie Honig, Jeffrey Librett, Tracy McNulty, Andrew Norris, Kam Shapiro, and Erik Vogt. Diacritics volume 37, nos. 2-3 (Spring 2008).

Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:

“Language, Hors langage, Act, Aesthetics,” in A Psychoanalysis for the Human: Willy Apollon's Renewal of Metapsychology After Freud and Lacan, ed. Lucie Cantin and Jeffrey Librett. Forthcoming 2023.

“Emancipation by Relay: The Transmission of Political Acts in Freud, James, and Kant,"  forthcoming in Theory & Event (2022).

“The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity,” in Michelle Rada, editor, 
“Psychoanalysis and Solidarity.” Special issue of Differences (Volume 32, nos. 2-3) (2022). 
198-219.

“The Anxiety at the Heart of Perverse Experience: A Clinical Perspective,” in Lacan’s Cruelty, ed. Meera Lee (London: Palgrave, 2022). 133-161.

“A Mass Psychology Beyond the Ego: Sympathy, Enthusiasm, and Unconscious Transmission in the Age of Revolution,” in a special issue of Psychoanalytische Perspectieven on the centennial of Sigmund Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, ed. Alexander Miller (Fall 2021), 555-576.

“Feeling at a Distance, or the Aesthetics of Unconscious Transmission,” in Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World, ed. Dominik Finkelde, Christoph Menke, and Slavoj Žižek (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 227-237.

“The Bond Uniting Pleasure and Pain,” special issue of Syndicate on Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique, ed. Robert Lehman (October 2021). 
https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/rationalist-empiricism/

“What if the Fetish could Speak?,” special issue of Syndicate on Jacques Lezra’s On the Nature of Marx’s Things, ed. Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (July 2020). https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/on-the-nature-of-marxs-things/

“Untreatable: The Freudian Act and its Legacy,” in Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda, editors, “Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Politics, Philosophy and Science.” Special issue of Crisis and Critique, Volume 6, issue 1 (April 2019), 227-251.

“Psychoanalysis and Law,” in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities, ed. Maksymilian Del Mar, Bernadette Meyler, and Simon Stern (London: Oxford University Press, 2019), 163-180.

“Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Dora, Antigone, and the Gift of the Symbolic Father,” in Ahnki Mukherjee, editor, After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 58-73.

“Hysteria," in Jeffrey Di Leo, editor, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018).

“Unbound: The Speculative Mythology of the Death Drive,” Differences 28:2 (2017), 86-115.

“Constructing the Death Drive,” Differences 28:2 (2017), 1-4.

“Speculative Fetishism,” Konturen VIII (2015), 99-132. Special issue on “The Thing.”

“Modernist Political Theologies: Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology and Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’,” in Jean-Michel Rabaté, editor, 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 248-260.

“The New Man’s Fetish,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 51, Spindel Supplement (2013), 17-39.

“Desuturing Desire: The Work of the Letter in the Miller-Leclaire Debate,” in Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, editors, Concept and Form Volume II: Interviews and Essays on the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (London: Verso, 2012), 89-104.

“Enabling Constraints: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life,” Umbr(a) (2010), 35-63.

“Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change,” Differences Volume 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008), 1-39.

“The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and its Real” [on Alain Badiou], Cardozo Law Review Volume 29:5 (April 2008), 2209-2238.

“The Gap in the Law and the Border-Breaching Function of the Exception” [on Carl Schmitt and Jacques Lacan], Konturen volume I, 2008. (http://konturen.uoregon.edu/volume1.html)

“The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’,” diacritics volume 37, nos. 2-3 (Spring 2008), 34-60.

“Weibliche Liebe und der Paulinische Universalismus,” in Verschränkungen von Symbolischem und Realem. Zur Aktualität von Lacans Denken in den Kulturwissenschaften, eds. Jochen Bonz, Gisela Febel, Insa Härtel (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2006).

“Mit dem Engel ringen,” in Wieder Religion ? Christentum im zeitgenössischen kritischen Denken (Lacan, Zizek, Badiou u.a.), eds. Marc De Kesel and Dominiek Hoens (Wenen: Turia + Kant, November 2005), 66-80.

“Feminine Love and the Pauline Universal,” in Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions, ed. Gabriel Riera (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 185-212. 

“Hospitality after the Death of God” [on Pierre Klossowski], diacritics volume 35, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 71-98.

“The Exceptional Father,” in (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, volumes I and II (2005), 23-33. 

“Wrestling with the Angel” [on Emmanuel Lévinas and Saint Paul], Umbr(a), 2005, 73-84.

“Signed, Dionysus: Nietzsche’s Lost Letter to Freud,” (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, Volume II, no. 1, Fall 2002, 7-24.

“Solving the Sexual Impasse: Female Orgasm, Viagra, and the ‘Natural Law’ of Jouissance,” Savoir Volume 5, no. 1, September 2000, 75-100.

“Klossowski, ce soir,” (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious, Volume I, no. 1, Spring 2000,  81-103.

“Israel as Host(ess): Hospitality in the Bible and Beyond,” Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, Volume 3, issues 1 and 2, 1999 (unpaginated).  

“The Other Jouissance, a Gay Sçavoir,” in Qui Parle, Volume 9, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1996, 126-159.

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266 Klarman Hall
tkm9@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine

Departments and programs

Paul Fleming

L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities

Publications

Books

  • Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
  • The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006). 

Book Translations

  • Hans Blumenberg, Care Crosses the River (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)
  • Peter Szondi, An Essay on the Tragic (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).

Selected Articles

  • "Vom Kasus zum Fall: Heyses 'Auf Tod und Leben' und Storms 'Ein Bekenntnis'." In: Wirklichkeit und Wahrenhmung: Neue Perspektiven auf Theodor Storm. Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Neue Folge, Bd. 27. eds. E. Strowick and U. Vedder (forthcoming 2013).
  • "Bodies. Ernst H. Kantorowicz." In Escape to Life. German Intellectuals in New York. A Compendium on Exile after 1933, eds. Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (2012).
  • "On the Edge of Non-Contingency: Lifeworld and Ancedotes," a special Telos issue on Hans Blumenberg, vol 158 (Spring 2012) pp. 21-35.
  • “Kannitverstan: The Contingent Understanding of Anecdotes.” In Oxford German Studies (Special Issue on Johann Peter Hebel) vol. 40 (1), 2011, pp. 72-81.
  • “The Perfect Story: Anecdote and Exemplarity in Linnaeus and Blumenberg.” In Thesis 11 (Special issue on Hans Blumenberg) vol. 104 (1), 2011, pp.72-86.
  • “Dream Chamber: Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin.” In Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 4/2010, pp. 579-92.
  • “Dead Men Walking: Zu Canettis Die Befristeten.” In Der Überlebende und sein Doppel: Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen zum Werk Elias Canettis, ed. Susanne Lüdemann. Freiburg: Rombach, 2008, pp. 127-43.
  • “The Promises of Childhood: Autobiography in Goethe and Jean Paul.” In Goethe-Yearbook, vol. 14 (2007), pp. 27-37.
  • “Forgetting – Faust: Adorno and Kommerell.” In Adorno and Literature, eds. David Cunningham and Nigel Mapp. London: Continuum, 2006, pp. 133-44.
  • “Die üblichen Verdächtigen. Das Bild des Kriminellen bei Quetelet und Galton.” In Intellektuelle Anschauung. Figurationen von Evidenz zwischen Kunst und Wissen, eds. Sibylle Peters and Martin Schäfer. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2006, pp. 225-38.
  • “The Secret Adorno.” In Qui Parle 15.2 (Fall 2005), pp. 97-114.
  • “June 10, 1796: An Alien Fallen from the Moon.” In The New History of German Literature, eds. David Wellbery et al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. 465-70.
  • “Die Moderne ohne Kunst: Max Kommerells Gattungspoetik in Jean Paul.” In Max Kommerell: Leben – Werk – Aktualität, eds. Walter Busch and Gerhart Pickerodt. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003, pp. 54-73.
  • “Das Gesetz: Hölderlin und die Not der Ruhe.” In Hölderlin-Jahrbuch (2000/01), pp. 273-92.
  • “The Crisis of Art: Max Kommerell and Jean Paul’s Gestures.” In Modern Language Notes, vol. 115, no. 3 (2000), pp. 519-43.
Klarman Hall
183 Goldwin Smith Hall
paul.fleming@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Laurent Dubreuil

Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature

Publications

Books

Articles

Edited Journal Issues

 

Klarman Hall
K260 Klarman Hall
ld79@cornell.edu
607/255-3675

Education

  • Agrégation (French & Comparative Literature), 1996
  • Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 1994-1999
  • Doctorate (French, Francophone & Comparative Literature), University of Bordeaux, France, 2001
  • Doctorate (Philosophy & Women Studies), University of Paris, 2002

Departments and programs

Andrea Bachner

Professor

Publications

Books

The Mark of Theory: Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories (forthcoming from Fordham University Press 2017).

Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, co-edited with Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Between Asia and Latin America: New Transpacific Perspectives,” Special Issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias (University of Minnesota Press), co-edited with Pedro Erber (forthcoming 2017).

Journal Articles 

“Editors’ Introduction: Remapping the Transpacific: Critical Approaches between Asia and Latin America” (with Pedro Erber) (forthcoming in Verge: Global Asias, 2017).

“Nexus,” (forthcoming in Verge: Global Asias, 2017) (part of the collective article “Fieldtrip: Between Asia and Latin America—A Critical Renga”).

“Violent Media, Chinese Fantasies: Salvador Elizondo’s ‘Execution by Shooting in China’,”(forthcoming in Verge: Global Asias, 2017).

“Hymenologics: Membrane Politics and the (Un)Making of Difference” (article for a special issue of Theory@Buffalo on “Difference: Cultural/Sexual/Universal,” forthcoming 2017).

“Cannibal Translations: Culture and Alterity in Early Modern China and Latin America” (forthcoming in Journal for Early Modern Studies, 2017, special issue on China edited by David Porter).

“Cultural Margins, Hybrid Scripts: Bigraphism and Translation in Taiwanese Indigenous Writing,” Journal of World Literature 1 (2016): 226-244; special issue on “Scriptworlds and World Literature.”

“Theses on the Translation of (Chinese) Architecture.” Verge: Global Asias 2: 1 (Spring 2016): 106-140; special issue on “Asian Urbanisms.”

What Original? Origin Stories, Script Teratologies, and Leibniz’s Hexagrammatology.” Comparative Literature. Special issue: “Original Languages.” 65: 1 (Winter 2013): 26-35.

“Graphic Germs: Mediality, Virulence, Chinese Writing.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 23: 1 (Spring 2011): 197-225.

“The Remains of History: Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Wuhe’s The Remains of Life.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 37: 1 (March 2011): 99-122.

“La corrosión del sentido: Quebrada de Guadalupe Santa Cruz” (“The Corrosion of Sense: Quebrada by Guadalupe Santa Cruz”). Taller de Letras 47 (November 2010): 69-88.

“‘Chinese’ Intextuations of the World.” Comparative Literature Studies 47: 3 (2010): 318-345.

“Thomas Hettche’s Wound Ethics.” The German Quarterly 82: 2 (Spring 2009): 212-230.

“Cinema as Heterochronos: Temporal Folds in the Work of Tsai Ming-liang.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19: 1 (Spring 2007): 60-90.

“New Spaces for Literature: Can Xue and Hélène Cixous on Writing.” Comparative Literature Studies 42: 3 (2005): 155-182.

“Anagrams in Psychoanalysis: Retroping Concepts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Jean-François Lyotard.” Comparative Literature Studies 40: 1 (2003): 1-25. (Winner of the 2002 Owen A. Aldridge Prize).

Book Chapters

“Globally Queer? Taiwanese Homotextualities in Translation”in Queer in Translation. Ed. B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 77-86.

“Chinese Literatures in Conjunction.” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Ed. Andrea Bachner and Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 866-80.

“The Secrets of Language: Chen Li’s Sinographic Anagrams.” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese. Ed. Andrea Bachner and Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 112-30.

“Between the Visual and the Sonic: Rewriting Rilke’s ‘Urgeräusch’.” Un/translatables. Ed. Bethany Wiggins and Catriona MacLeod. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. 229-39.

“Concretely Global? Visual Poetry against Translation.” Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity. Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 155-168.

“1899: Oracle Bones, that Dangerous Supplement…” (forthcoming in A New Literary History of Modern China, edited by David Wang, Harvard University Press, March 2017).

“1986: The Writer and the Mad(wo)man.” (forthcoming in A New Literary History of Modern China, edited by David Wang, Harvard University Press, March 2017).

“Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan’s Butterfly as Sinophone Romance.” Queering Sinophone Studies. Ed. Ari Larissa Heinrich and Howard Chiang. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 201-220.

“Found in Translation: Gao Xingjian’s Multi-Medial Sinophone.” Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Ed. Brian Bernards, Shih Shu-mei, and Tsai Chien-hsin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 364-374.

“Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations.” Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Critical Essays on Sinophone and Diasporic Writings. Ed. Jing Tsu and David Wang. Leiden and Boston: BRILL, 2010. 177-195.

“De/signar: Grafías paradójicas en la obra de Diamela Eltit” (“De/signar: Graphic Paradoxes in the Work of Diamela Eltit”). Diamela Eltit: Redes locales, redes globales. Ed. Rubí Carreño. Madrid and Frankfurt/Main: Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2009. 273-281.

“Re/coiling Inscription: Incisive Moments in Diamela Eltit and Jacques Derrida.” Democracy in Latin America: The Legacy of September 11, 1973. Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando Leiva. Brighton, Portland: Sussex University Press, 2005. 202-213.

Translations

Translation of Salvador Elizondo, “Execution by Shooting in China” (“Fusilamiento en China”), forthcoming in Verge: Global Asias 3:2 (2017) (Spanish to English).

Translation of Mei Chia-ling, “Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Ed. Andrea Bachner and Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 149-171. (Chinese to English).

Translation of Chen Pingyuan, “The Story of Literary History.” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Ed. Andrea Bachner and Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 92-111. (Chinese to English).

Translation of Ji Jin, “Modern Chinese Literature and Literature in Translation” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Ed. Andrea Bachner and Carlos Rojas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 521-30. (Chinese to English).

Translations of “草莓果园” (“Strawberry Fields”) by Liao Weitang, “音乐山谷” (“Valley of Music”) by Song Lin, “古相思曲” (“An Ancient Lovesong”) by Xi Murong, and “星期日独唱” (“Solo on a Sunday”) by Yi Lei, Chinese to German, for “Time Shadows: Music” Goethe-Institute Washington, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, and the Chinatown Community Cultural Center in Washington, DC, February 23, 2012. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/kul/mag/tri/map/enindex.htm.

Translations of “Danza del alacrán” (“Scorpion Dance”), “Serpiente de vidrio” (“Glass Serpent”), and “Autorretrato de la mujer invisible” (“Self-Portrait of the Invisible Woman”) by Julia Piera, Spanish to English. The Poetry Ireland Review. 91 (2007): 62-64.

Translation of “洋蔥” (“Onion”) by Yesi (Leung Ping-kwan), Chinese to Spanish. ABC Cultural Supplement, Spain. 752 (July 1st, 2006): 20.

Reviews, Shorter Pieces, and Interviews

Review of Young China by Mingwei Song for Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

Review of Homesickness by Carlos Rojas for Frontiers of Literary Studies in China; Chinese translation by Li Juan forthcoming in Xuewen.

Interview with Carla Nappi on Beyond Sinology for New Books in East Asian Studies, http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/2014/03/23/andrea-bachner-beyond-sinology-chinese-writing-and-the-scripts-of-culture-columbia-up-2014/

Interview with Ilon Huang on Beyond Sinology for the weekend magazine of Radio Taiwan International, August 2, 9, and 16, 2014 (in German).

Review of A Common Strangeness by Jacob Edmond. CLEAR 53 (2013): 240-242.

Review of Lin Shu, Inc. by Michael Hill. Chinese Literature Today 3: 1/2 (2013): 168-170.

Review of Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West by Douwe Fokkema. The Comparatist 37 (May 2013): 319-321.

Review of Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora by Jing Tsu, MCLC Resource Center. http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/bachner2.htm, Summer 2011.

Review of Ideographic Modernism by Christopher Bush, MCLC Resource Center. http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/bachner.htm, Spring 2011.

Review of Sinographies. Ed. Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven Yao. China Review International. 16: 3 (2009): 341-344.

“另類書寫系統：張貴興《猴杯》和黃錦樹〈魚骸〉裡的肉體銘刻” (“Corporeal Inscription in Zhang Guixing’s Simian Cup and Ng Kim-chew’s ‘Fish Bones’”). Trans. Tsai Chien-hsin. SinChew Daily, Literary Supplement, August 27, 2006.

Klarman Hall
K210 Klarman Hall
asb76@cornell.edu

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