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December 1st, 2011

Issue #4: No Quarrel (Part 2)

By , UIC and , 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 , 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 , UIC and , 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 , UIC, , UC Irvine, , University of Cambridge, , Pomona College, , UC Berkeley, , Yale University and , 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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