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December 1st, 2011

Issue #4: No Quarrel (Part 2)

By Oren Izenberg, UIC and Rob Chodat, Boston University

Part 2 of our “No Quarrel” feature on literature and philosophy. Edited by Oren Izenberg and Rob Chodat.

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December 1st, 2011
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Confiance au Monde; or, The Poetry of Ease

By Oren Izenberg, UIC

Just as “confidence” is hope cut free from its surrounding dangers, so too a “reminder” is an invitation cut free from a discursive environment of argument and persuasion. It is a performance of knowledge that causes anxiety to lapse, that opens our eyes to the obvious without insisting upon it. Or to put the point slightly differently, the idea of a reminder is the idea of a poetry of ease.

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October 14th, 2011

Issue #3: No Quarrel (Part 1)

By Oren Izenberg, UIC and Rob Chodat, Boston University

This issue of nonsite presents a conversation between literary scholars and philosophers, revisiting the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy in a modern disciplinary context. Edited by Oren Izenberg and Rob Chodat.

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September 22nd, 2011
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Being Numerous

By Oren Izenberg, UIC, Virginia Jackson, UC Irvine, Simon Jarvis, University of Cambridge, Aaron Kunin, Pomona College, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, UC Berkeley, Paul Grimstad, Yale University and Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve University

Welcome to the opening of the Tank, into which we drop a published work or a work-in-progress (or some piece of one or the other) and see what happens when the water starts churning. In our first installment, Oren Izenberg steps into the water.

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