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2019, positions: asia critique
This essay theorizes the potential uses and limitations of describing a text as “viral.” Literary texts are often described as viral when they serve as tools of self-expression for those who reproduce them: viral texts must therefore delete or suppress qualities that mark them as alien, and emphasize qualities that identify them with those who might repeat them. As they circulate, viruses span and connect social and intellectual lineages through rhizomatic motion, as described by Deleuze and Guattari. These concepts provide an occasion for a rereading of the contemporary circulation of the poetry of Gu Cheng 顾城, whose verse and biography have circulated widely and been intensively transformed in the past thirty years. The partial and mutated versions of his life and verse that circulate via film, television, print, calligraphy, and especially the Internet produce a shared fantasy of a “free” poet whose genius excludes him from social constraint, and who deserves and enjoys the limitless adoration of women. This fantasy is made circulable in part by suppressing the experience of his wife, Xie Ye 谢烨, whom he killed in 1993, a deletion whose marks are clearly visible in a historicized analysis of popular treatments of their story. On the strength of Deleuze and Guattari’s argument that the rhizome cannot be encompassed but instead only extended through rupture, the essay then reads Xie Ye’s prose compositions “Games” and “Your Name Is Little Mu’er,” finding them to contain stories that can travel and concepts whose circulation may contribute to antipatri-archal goals. The piece concludes by arguing that the metaphor of the virus reveals the position of the scholar who reproduces texts for study, and that thinking through the virus implicates scholars in the ethics and pragmatics of spreading texts.
OCTOBER
Virus as Metaphor2020 •
Building on the ideas in my recent book, Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT, 2020), this polemical text suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may call for new methodologies for understanding art and its histories.
NALANS
Lethal Narratives and the Breakdown of Human/Nonhuman Spheres: What Viruses Tell and What We Imagine2020 •
APA Citation: Yılmaz Karahan, Z. G. (2020). Lethal narratives and the breakdown of human/nonhuman spheres: what viruses tell and what we imagine. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 8 (15), 236-243. Abstract Narratives on viruses have become an effective way as storied matter that forces us to redefine what human is with its nonhuman proximity and trans-corporeal bonds. Displaying how human beings are enmeshed in volatile planetary processes, narrative agency of the viruses ignites certain speculations for the redefinition of humanity. However, in lieu of comprehending the material stories carried by various viruses that changed the courses of various civilizations to large extents, humans imagine themselves fighting these viruses, as part of their existential meanings, through their intellect which they perceive their divine boon. This brings forth a vicious circle since it requires the segregation of human and nonhuman. Such scenarios as humanity triumphing against a lethal natural force and/or a virus attacking what is uniquely human in every sense just consolidates anthropocentrism, which is the core reason for these environmental catastrophes and imbalances out of which new viruses emerge. This ecophobic imagination, mainly resulting from the fear of losing precious agency against an unknown and unlimited natural force, can be tracked in different literary works. The main aim of this paper is, thus, to highlight the narrative agency of viruses within the theoretical framework of posthumanisms, and to further shed light on how we perceive viruses in some literary works.
2018 •
Art, Politics and the Life Sciences: Art, Science and Critique
Viral Consciousness and Critique (2006)2006 •
Viral Consciousness and Critique is a paper delivered by Joseph Nechvatal on April 26, 2006 at the Institute for Cultural Research, Department of History at Lancaster University as part of the seminar Art, Politics and the Life Sciences: Art, Science and Critique chaired by Kirk Woolford
Philomathes
Infectious Diseases, Plague Palimpsests, and Writings by Lucretius, Poe, Sontag, and Heidegger2017 •
Plague literature by Poe and Lucretius remains highly relevant today as we encounter a human future still defined by infectious diseases. This essay analyzes the oscillation of plague metaphor and non-metaphor in De Rerum Natura (Book VI) by Lucretius and “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe. These plague texts are literary palimpsests, with Lucretius rewriting Thucydides and his account of the Athenian plague, and Poe rewriting Boccaccio’s Decameron and its portrayal of literary escape from the bubonic plague. The accounts of plague in Lucretius and Poe 1) oscillate between metaphorical representations of disease and non-metaphorical representations of disease and 2) possess abrupt textual disruptions and failures of metaphor. These disruptions allow for an opening of interpretation and new metaphors, but also invite inquiry into the authors’ biographies and literal deaths. The liberatory possibilities via these textual disruptions may allow the reader participation in a more authentic Being-towards-death as understood by Heidegger in Being and Time. Moreover, the contemplation of our actual future deaths, alongside those of plague victims past and present, with the interrelated moral, ethical, and social implications, may inaugurate a more authentic human relationship to both death and time.
David Publishing Company
Journal of Literature and Art Studies Issue 1 Vol.10 2020 JanuaryChina Review International
From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (review)1999 •
Creative Arts in Education and Therapy
Virus – On the Edge of Art and Science, Human Beings, and Nature2020 •
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Journal of Catalysis
Production of CO-free H 2 from formic acid. A comparative study of the catalytic behavior of Pt metals on a carbon support2011 •
Engineering and Applied Science Research
Activity Based Costing of Product Life Cycle in The Design Process for Plastic Calendaring and Coating Industry2011 •
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Post-Exercise Recovery of Ultra-Short-Term Heart Rate Variability after Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test and Repeated Sprint Ability Test2020 •
Algebraic & Geometric Topology
Limit points of lines of minima in Thurston's boundary of Teichmüller space2003 •
Medical Science Monitor
Lack of nephrotoxicity of gadopentetate dimeglumine-enhanced non-vascular MRI and MRI without contrast agent in patients at high-risk for acute kidney injury2013 •
Mazzoleni/Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape
Land Abandonment and the Spreading of the Forest in the Eastern French Pyrenées in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries2005 •
2020 •
Anadolu Arastırmaları
The Bronze Augustus Portrait which was found in Erzincan2002 •
Proceedings of Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: wide-field monitoring of the dynamic radio sky — PoS(Dynamic2007)
Innovative SETI by the KLT2008 •
Revista Iberoamericana Ambiente & Sustentabilidad
Aportes del conocimiento de la ecoetología de los Trichomyterus (Actinopterygii, trichomycteridae) del río Umajalanta, Potosí, Bolivia2019 •
Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences
The Combination of Sonography and Physical Examination Improves the Patency and Suitability of Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Fistula in Vascular Access2016 •
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant
Plant regeneration from cotyledon tissues of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench)2000 •
2020 •
I VISCONTI DI BAS, MARIANO IV E TIMBOR DE ROCCABERTI', NOBILE CATALANA "JUTGESSA CONSORT" E AMBASCIATRICE D'ARBOREA
I Visconti di Bas, Mariano IV e Timbor De Roccabertì, nobile catalana, "Jutgessa consort" e Ambasciatrice D'Arborea2018 •
Los mapas patagónicos de Henry Libanus Jones (1861) y George Chaworth Musters (1871): historia de un solapado calco parcial
Los mapas patagónicos de Henry Libanus Jones (1861) y George Chaworth Musters (1871): historia de un solapado calco parcial2024 •
EDULEARN proceedings
A Proposal of Structuring the Discipline of Requirements Engineering Using PBL2017 •