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73 Suspect Words

Peggy Ahwesh

Imperial Jive (A One-Act Theoretical Essay)

Jonathan Beller

Giving an Account of One’s Jargon

Richard Cante

On the Authenticity of Jargon: From Barthes and Adorno to Godard

Scott Durham

The Jouissance of Jargon

Hugh S. Manon

Writing at the Limits of Reason

Brian Price

Talking Ugly

John David Rhodes

Marx in Jargon

Keston Sutherland

The Word for a Thousand Pictures

Meghan Sutherland

Iambic Phalloi in Pinque, or, The Jargon of Idiots versus the Idiom of Ruritania

Martin Wallen

On Debord, Then and Now: An Interview with Olivier Assayas

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

The Art of Impurity: An Interview with Emmanuel Bourdieu

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

Reading for the Obvious: A Conversation

Derek Attridge, Henry Staten

“The Center of the World is Everywhere”: Bamako and the Scene of the Political

Scott Durham

The Obviousness of Cinema

Rosalind Galt

Cinema/Film

Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder

Otto Preminger and the Surface of Cinema

Christian Keathley

The School for Stupefaction

Scott Krzych

Kino Ex Nihilo

Scott Krzych

In conversation with Ernesto Laclau: Not a Ground but a Horizon

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

A Pimple on the Ass of Drew Barrymore Speaks

Sam Lipsyte

Nothing from Nothing: Alchemy and the Economic Crisis

Karen Pinkus

The Obvious: Three Reminiscences

Angelo Restivo

Interregnum Reanimated: The Living Cemetery

Stephen G. Rhodes

Circuit City Unplugged

Jeffrey Sconce

Happiness and Queer Politics

Sara Ahmed

John Stuart Mill, the Autobiography, and the Paradox of Happiness

Linda M. Austin

Happiness on a World Scale

Richard Dienst

A Second Life: Notes on Adorno’s Reading of Proust

Alexander García Düttmann

The Work of Art and the Promise of Happiness in Adorno

James Gordon Finlayson

Communists Have More Fun! The Dialectics of Fulfillment in Cinema of the People’s Republic of China

Jason McGrath

On Compromises

Brian Price

Happiness in Writing

Keston Sutherland

The Color of Love

Peggy Ahwesh

Collections: The Hermitage featuring The Qajar Dynasty, Persia

Peggy Ahwesh

Sex and the Situs

Sam Cooper

Four Unpublished Poems

Maya Deren

Perverse Aesthetics: Maria Beatty, Masochism, and the Cinematic

Rosalind Galt

Arousal in Ruins: The Color of Love and the Haptic Object of Film History

Elena Gorfinkel

About Myself

Ken Jacobs

Nymph Berkeley to San Francisco Selections on the Theme of Arousal

Ken Jacobs

“Carefully Posed Thighs”: The Garden of Eden in 1966

Michael Lawrence

Arousal: The Intertwining of the Within and the Without

James Mensch

Wake Up! Even if Life Is but a Dream: Ethics of/as Arousal

Kelly Oliver

Notes on Cinematic Desire (for Louis)

John David Rhodes

Colonial Insurgency and the Spectral Rhetoric of Arousal

Nicole Rizzuto

About Opsis

Meghan Sutherland

I am you, if I am: Notes for a Phenomenology of Narcissism

Domietta Torlasco

Burn. Object. If.

Eugenie Brinkema

Excess Sustainability, Sustainable Excess: A Dossier of Statements on Architecture and Sustainability

Tina di Carlo, Stefano Harney, Geoffrey West, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Bjarke Ingels, Tomas Saraceno

In conversation with Michelle Citron: The Ambiguous Archive

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

The Life and Death of the University

Alexander García Düttmann

3D is Intoxicating

Ken Jacobs

Three 3D Poems: Lulu in Hollywood, Routine, The Story of a Devoted Couple

Ken Jacobs

Sustainably Dependent: Bio-Architectural Living Spaces

Jennifer Johung

The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: The “To Come” of the Humanities

Maebh Long

In Conversation with Ian MacKaye: Records

Brian Price

Unsustaining

Timothy Morton

Want Not: A Dialogue on Sustainability with Images

Karen Pinkus, Cameron Tonkinwise

The Splatter Technique

Rebekah Rutkoff

Innocence and Despair (2001): A Decade Later

Phil Solomon

Agnès Varda and the Limits of Gleaning

Allan Stoekl

Estrangement 2.0

Mark Andrejevic

Governing by Wrong

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Is Attention Really Immaterial? Visual Culture after Post-Fordism

Seb Franklin

The Essential Standpoint of Man: An Autopsy, In Three Parts

Danny Hayward

In conversation with Sam Lipsyte: Acategorical Imperatives

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

Being Heard: Listening In–Sound and Our Dystopian Present

Matt Malsky

Notes on Glitch

Hugh S. Manon, Daniel Temkin

gl1tchw0rks gall3ry

Daniel Temkin

The Notion of Pantry: A Speculative Defense of Unuse

Davide Panagia

A Theory of Regret

Brian Price

“Dude, that’s just wrong”: Mimesis, Identification, Jackassr

Scott C. Richmond

David Wojnarowicz’s Graven Image: Cinema, Censorship, and Queers

Karl Schoonover

A Futher Explanation of My Last Error By Pier Paolo Pasolini

Louis-Georges Schwartz

WELCOME TO MY RECTANGLE

A. L. Steiner

Givens

Zach Barocas

e.g., Dogtooth

Eugenie Brinkema

Contact Sport

Robert Cavanagh

“Not ours, this death, to take into our bones”: The Postanimal after the Posthuman

David L. Clark

Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze

Lorenz Engell

Approaching Reality: Epistemic Distance, Political Crises and Temporal Imaginations in the Sino-French Dialogue on Cinema Ontology

Victor Fan

The Worst, or The Lesser of Two Evils

Alexander García Düttmann

Suspended Meaning: On Bergson and Cinema Perception

Sam Ishii-Gonzales

in Correspondence with John David Rhodes Film is Thinking: A Conversation Across Distance

Barbara Hammer

Mighty Mouse

Jane Wodening

Bent Time

Barbara Hammer

Media on Target in the Global System: Military Strategy and Narrative Practice

Sorin Radu

Reification, Reanimation and the Money of the Real

Alessandra Raengo

Townie: A Natural History

Kathleen Stewart

A Language of Safe Words

Ryan Pierson

Thinking on an Island: An Interview with Raffaele Mirelli

Matthew I. Thompson

In Conversation with Phil Solomon: Mediating the American Idea

Brian Price, Meghan Sutherland

Alternating Influences: Sublimation in Time-Travel Cinema

Scott Krzych

The World and John Wieners

Keston Sutherland

The Media of Influence

Gertrud Koch

In the House, In the Picture: Distance and Proximity in the American Mid-Century Neutralized Theatre

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

The Influence of Old Materialisms; or, Three Scenes of Self-Regulation

Lenora Hanson

The Intervals of Habit

Abraham Geil

The Eclipse of the Eclipse of Distance: Talking Politics in a Global Village

Matthew Tierney

The Actress as Filmmaker: On Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini’s New Erotics of Vision

Domietta Torlasco

Euclid

Argos

The Little That We Get For Free

Alexander García Düttmann

Poems

Lee Ann Brown

Remains’ Regime Change?

Rey Chow

Why Burn a Photograph? A Film by Hollis Frampton

Alexander García Düttmann

Five Appendices in Search of a Text: A Disproportionate Response (Piece) to Peter Gidal and Mark Webber, eds., Peter Gidal / Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016, with Excurses on “Structural Film”

Jonathan Walley

The Patient Poetry and Poetics of Rob Halpern

Sam Ladkin

Dissent and the Aesthetics of Control: On Carolee Schneemann’s Snows

Erica Levin

Coda II

Peter Gidal

Historical Omission and Psychic Repression in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights

Tania Modleski

What Remains of the Italian Left of the 1970s?

Jonathan Mullins

Posthuman Bioracism, or, Capitalism’s Orthodox Humanity and Power 

A. Kiarina Kordela

Wish Upon a Star

Laurence A. Rickels

Pseudo-Cinema

Evan Calder Williams

Productive Orthodoxy

Luis Recoder

The Cobweb and the Politics of Decoration

Agustín Zarzosa

Against Self-Preservation, or Can SCUM be Serious?

Alexander García Düttmann

Legacy is a Category of Law, Not of Thought

Alexander García Düttmann

Remarks on an Unknowing and Unforgiving Seriousness: A Reply to Alexander García Düttmann

Paul Davies

Watercolors

Sandra Gibson

Reflections on Motion Picture Evidence

Brian L. Frye

Notes on “Seriousness”

Andrea Actis

Poets of the Flesh, Jugglers of the Mundane: Serious Endurance and The Limits of Control

Adam Kildare Cottrel

The Aporetic Apparatus

Meghan Sutherland

Lost Traces Found

Clint Enns

What is Orthodox Critical Theory?

Fabian Freyenhagen

Orthodoxy: Aversions and Conversions

Todd Cronan and Charles Palermo

Freud in the Present

Theodor W. Adorno

Whimsy, the Avant-Garde and Rudy Burckhardt’s and Kenneth Koch’s The Apple

Daniel Kane

Wake in Fright, or How to Contextualize like a Naturalist

Agustin Zarzosa

Biting the Philosopher’s Hand: Other People’s Dogs, Other Responses

Martin Wallen

Philosophy in the Kitchen

Domietta Torlasco

Becoming Hole (The Hiddener Abode)

Jord/ana Rosenberg

My Little Poetry

Joe Luna

Capital Logic: Inception and Dream Labour in the Information Age

Roshaya Rodness

Eminent Domain

John David Rhodes and Stephen G. Rhodes

The Figure Function in Rancière and Heidegger

Dan McFadden

Aesthetic Inequality and Political Seriousness

Brian Price

Contagion and the Ethics of Difference

Darius Lerup

For a Critique of the Documentary Logic of Sobriety

Pooja Rangan

The Contexts of Forms

Seb Franklin

Arrested Frames

Zachary Campbell

Shattering the “Macabre Mirror”: Towards a Non-Decisional Critical Animal Studies

Andrew Reszitnyk

Trace: Six Grids and a Hypothesis

Mal Ahern

O

Rebekah Rutkoff

Vancouver Cart

Kelly Wood

Television, Critique, and the Intentionless

Amy Villarejo

Marx’s Defence of Poetry

Keston Sutherland

Where Vanity Meets Volition: Technicity, Self-Monitoring, and the Comedy of Exasperation

Kyle Stevens

Toward a Theory of Voice-Over through Brief Encounter

Kyle Stevens

Queer Seriousness

Damon Young

Orgasms without Bodies

Karly-Lynne Scott

Friedrich Schelling’s Moment of Abandon

William Davis

The Also at Work in Every Intended Something: Belief, Belonging, Sound of My Voice, The East

Veronica Fitzpatrick

Active Passivity? Spinoza in Pasolini’s Porcile

Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey

Witch’s Peak

Stephen G. Rhodes

CHAOS PHAOS: Markopoulos and Cinematic Withholding

Rebekah Rutkoff

Coda I

Peter Gidal

The Dissonance Machine

Kennan Ferguson

The Spell of the Sentimental

Erica Fretwell

Quarantine Theory

David L. Clark

Seven adverbs that God loveth

Simon Critchley

Conjuring the cinematic pissoir

Elena Gorfinkel

Dis-Spells

Grant Farred

The Senseless Shift

Alanna Thain

The Economy of Invisibility and Visibility: How to Classify Humanity

Naoki Sakai

Aural Temptation: Vowels, Violence, and the Sirens’ Song

Hunter Dukes

The Cottingley Hoax: A Modern Fairy Tale

Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

While You Were Asleep

Phil Solomon

Sara Nokomis Weir

Brian L. Frye

On Reasonableness

Brian L. Frye

A Reasonable Man

Brian L. Frye

The Many Enchantments of Capital

Jillian Vasko

“The Value of Frustration”: An Interview with Adam Phillips

Jane Elliott and John David Rhodes

White Hot and Agfacool: Race, Heat, and Colour in The Zone of Interest

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson

Embracing the Clutter of Collections: Against the “Nextness” of Streaming and Netflix

Ryan Engley

Surrealist Transhumanism: Jean Rostand and Nicole Vedrès’s Aux frontières de l’homme (1952)

Nikolaj Lübecker

Hotel Film and the Erotics of Adjacency

Jules O'Dwyer

When Does the Next Swan Depart?

Cassandra Guan

One Following Others

Brian Price and Clint Enns

Primitivist Accumulation and Other Inside Jobs

Alessandra Raengo

Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum

Thomas Quist

Nyi Ma Lay

Chiang Wei Liang

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