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Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1 Alternatives
Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1
Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1 is another Make-up, Fashion Simulation developed and published by 6677g.com. It is the first game on Google play that offers the huge range of fashionable clothes, accessories, and characters. In this game, the main task of the player creates her characters with unique looks and show off with other to win the modeling events… read more
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17 Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1 Alternatives & Similar Games
Makeup Girls
Pazu Game introduces great game named as Makeup Girls is an Educational, Fashion, Make-up and Single-player Simulation. The game takes the player into the world of fashion where the player can customize her own character with the unique look with the help of different kinds of fashionable accessories and clothes.
Dress Up! Cute Pony
Dress Up! Cute Pony is Casual, Fashion and Fantasy-based Simulation for Kids. The game is available to play on Android platform only. The game is specially made for kids of who love the pony.
Top Model Dress Up Hair Salon
Top Model Dress Up Hair Salon is a Single-player, Fashion and Fantasy-based Simulation by Lollipop Studio. In this game, the ultimate task of the player is style up the top hottest models in her luxury salon with fab hairstyle, fashionable clothes, and makeup, etc.
Star Girl
Star Girl is an Addictive Fashion, Make-Up and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Animoca. The game puts the player in the high heels of aspiring star who is setting out to create her career as a famous superstar.
Dress up: Dream Toes
6677g.com always introduce a great game just like a Dress up: Dream Toes is an exciting Single-player Simulation for Android. The game allows the player take on the role of a princess and the main task of the player is customize her look like a real princess.
My Makeup Salon: Girls Game
My Makeup Salon: Girls Game is a Fashion, Educational and Single-player Simulation by Tenlogix Games. It is an exciting game that offers a real experience of makeup with countless makeup tools.
Hijab Make Up Salon
Hijab Make Up Salon developed and published by Moms Interactive. The game offers similar gameplay of the other fashion games that allows the player to choose from the variety of beautiful hijabs and also allows the player to get a handful choices of makeup ranging from lipstick, eye shadow, and mascara.
Wedding Make Up
Wedding Make Up is a Single-player Fashion Simulation developed and published by Games4Fun. It is an educational game that teaches the player about the makeup step by step. The game allows the player to makes herself up and select a beautiful, charming wedding dress for her own wedding, pick up unique hairstyle, luxury jewelry, accessories and real makeup tools to customize her look.
Make-Up Me
Libii introduces another Fashion game named as Make-Up Me. The game allows the player the player to make unique designs for the born beauty and start by selecting skin color. The game offers countless costume and real makeup tools that will help the player in during the gameplay.
Fashion Doll Makeover
Fashion Doll Makeover is a Casual, Fashion and Fantasy-based Single-player Simulation by GameoMax. It is an excellent makeover video game that offers the player to improve his fashion sense. In this game, the player can take on the role of a fashion maker start her business to earn money.
Royal Princess Makeover
Nutty Apps introduce a great game named as Royal Princess Makeover is an Addictive, Makeup, Fashion and Single-player Simulation for Android. Start her gameplay with an excellent makeup of his chosen princess in his own salon.
Star Girl Salon
Star Girl Salon is an Educational, Fashion, Makeup and Single-player video game developed and published by Libii. The game is specially made for those people who dreamed of standing in the center of a massive stage and singing the beautiful song to viewers all over the world.
Princess Makeover Salon 2
Princess Makeover Salon 2 is a sequel pack of the most popular Fashion game of Princess Makeover Salon developed by K3Games. The game introduces lots of new features upgrades, characters and real makeup tools which makes the game more interesting and enjoyable.
Princess Makeup
Princess Makeup developed and published by K3Games. It is a Fashion Simulation that is available to play on Android platform only. The game allows the player to assume the role of a fashion maker and customize the princess for different parties.
Dress Up Salon
Dress Up Salon is another Fashion, Make-Up, Casual and Fantasy-based Simulation by Big Cake Group Limited. In this game, the player can take on the role of a common young girl whose ultimate task is to become the best model in the world.
Girls Games: Makeup
Girls Games: Makeup is another Fashion game by 6677g.com. It allows the player to make up her character with exciting things and prove herself as a best in the world.
Imagine: Fashion Designer
Imagine: Fashion Designer is a Simulation by Ubisoft. In this game, the player can assume the role of a Fashion Designer who is able to create her dream. It is an addictive and most realistic customizable fashion game that allows the player to create and share her own creativity with the others.
More About Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1
Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1 is another Make-up, Fashion Simulation developed and published by 6677g.com. It is the first game on Google play that offers the huge range of fashionable clothes, accessories, and characters. In this game, the main task of the player creates her characters with unique looks and show off with other to win the modeling events. Each winning event will provide a huge reward that will help the player to unlock more stuff. The game also offers the social-networking option which allows the player to share her character to the other and prove herself as best in the world. Girls Games: Fashion 3 in 1 includes core features such as different modeling events, unlockable achievements, upgrades and much more. The game offers impressive gameplay, excellent graphics, and simple controls.
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Where the season never ends!
Topps, the classic sports card and memorabilia company brings you Topps MLB BUNT '19! This free digital trading card app continues the legacy of collecting & trading baseball cards with fans around the world! Play your card collection in real-time scoring contests, win cards in baseball mini-games, or upgrade your collection in Card Fusion!
• NEW cards released every day!
• Collect your favorite players, both past and present – from the 1950's to active rosters!
• Dynamic card products: base cards, original artwork, classic Topps sets, digital autographs, and more!
BRING YOUR COLLECTION TO LIFE!
• Watch LIVE MLB games and compete in free, real-time scoring contests against fans around the world!
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• Player cards reflect real-time MLB action – they score…you score!
• Collect and PLAY cards that have BOOSTS to super-charge your lineups!
• PLAY "Batter Up' to win coins, inserts and more + SPIN the Card Wheel & win something every time!
• Trade-in duplicate cards in Card Fusion to unlock rarer variants & parallels.
BECOME PART OF BUNT NATION!
• Propose trades 24/7 and chat with the best community of baseball card collectors in the world!
• Level up and earn experience points (XP's) by winning contests, opening packs, and completing sets.
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Stay tuned with all of the game day action and newest card releases!
I like this game, even though I tend to miss out on the better cards. I like collecting digital cards, but I don't want to pay real money for cards made only of pixels. So I trade for some better cards, and miss out on most. But the game itself is fun. Playing the free contests can get you some good cards. And the Prize Wheel May get you some. But I really like to play the Batter Up game, though I lose a lot. It's an exercise in gambling-try to get money but if you are too greedy you may strike out. You need to learn when to walk off. I like the cards I (rarely) win in Batter Up. I also like fusing cards, except I can't fuse to get any specific player card. But the critics of this app don't seem to realize the idea of making an app is to make money. Thus, you pay if you want the best cards. I do ok without paying much real money. And the cards are just digital anyway. I don't get why critics get so negative-no one forces them to pay to play. It's only a game, and if you love collecting cards and opening packs, it's fun. Good cards are rare in physical form, and actually Topps likely wants to sell those more than digital cards. I do pay money for physical cards because I get something real. And I still like the game with all its faults.
Update: When they said there was nothing they could do and no timeline as to when this would be resolved I then let them know I deleted the app and will be posting a negative review. Somehow then they emailed back problem was resolved. Still horrible customer service as this is something that could have easily been done right away. Increasing star review to 2 star though until they can figure out how to set this up so you can register under an email and a password and log in on multiple devices to take your collection anywhere. This may stop people from getting multiple accounts! This whole linking problem is why people might use a second email to create an account!
Original Post: This app development is horrible. I had to reinstall the app once and it would not let me log in saying it was already linked to my device. They were able to unlink things so I could sign back in. Yesterday I found I had a virus on my phone and had to do a factory reset. They now tell me they can not unlink again because I had too many unlink requests. This makes NO sense to me! Why can't they just figure out like every other app does where you sign in with your email and can do that with any device?! Needless to say I deleted this app due to this.
I only use the Bunt App made by Topps, but I've heard similar stories across all Topps apps (SWCT, Huddle, Kick, Slam, etc). Topps uses deceitful and unethical sales practices, for example they may or may not tell you something is sold out in a pack before letting you purchase it (just 2 days ago there was a $70 Pack in Bunt called Black Ice and Topps mislead buyers by saying they had a chance at a number of cards, including 1/1 signatures, 25 card counts and 35 card count limiteds... when in reality only 75 card count limiteds were left - sounds minor, but on the secondary market the value of a 1/1 Signature is $200-$300 whereas a 75 card count limited is less than $20, so why would someone spend $70 on a pack if there was zero chance of getting a valuable card)... other times they have forgotten about awards, changed contest settings (they disallowed any series 1 or 2 cards for the postseason even though many people, including myself, spent a significant amount of money on those cards in preparation for the postseason contest), and my favorite, forgotten to put the proper insert cards in packs, or mislisting what was in packs.
I honestly don't know how or why either Apple or MLB allows Topps to operate the Bunt App, it's run poorly, they lie, cheat, and steal, and they rarely make things right when they do mess up.
© 2019, The Topps Company, Inc.


- Extended battery pack will keep it charged for up to 6 months!
The Real Time GPS Tracker w/ Magnetic Case & Extended Battery Pack delivers all the same great features of our other GPS trackers with the added benefit of an extended-life battery pack and heavy-duty magnetic case. This durable unit is ideal for long-term covert operations involving individual or employee tracking. This tracker includes superior reception sensitivity, fast Time to First Fix and Quad-band GSM frequencies, allowing this device to be monitored easily anywhere in the world via our secure web-based mapping system. It reports Geo-fence boundary crossings, low battery alerts and scheduled GPS positions, along with several other advanced reporting features. Most importantly, it comes complete with a worry-free 6-month battery pack and heavy-duty weather-proof magnetic case, making it ideal for long-term operations in harsh environments.
How Much Does It Cost? Activation fee - $39.95 - Waived!
This screen can be entered by the selecting the arrow on the right side of the tracking sidebar. Full Screen Mode is excellent for monitoring centers or large displays, and gives users a better view of the resources on the map and their location.
This feature is great for monitoring a single asset, either an individual or one person within a fleet, in real time. This feature allows users to open up the tracking in a new window or tab within their browser.
Users can send a link to anyone's email address to show the location of an asset. The link can be set to have an expiration date from anytime between an hour and a month.
This page can easily determine which resource is closest to a given location. This helps companies save time and money by allowing for more efficient deployment.
This feature further aids in efficient deployment by allowing directions from one location to another to be shared to a phone, tablet, or computer.
This feature allows for efficient deployment to specific addresses by quickly evaluating the distance of a location from a resource.
This is the main location to view every part of the main tracking dashboard. It is simple and convenient for every user.
This menu allows the user to customize data by setting alert triggers, maintenance reminders, security interfaces and more.
This lets users separate assets, individuals, and vehicles based on location, purpose, and department.
This feature helps keep track of a vehicle's serial number, license plate, registration, driver, and other properties.
Users can attach different field values such as name, phone number, job description, working hours, and medical information, to a specific driver account.
This feature makes it easy for users to access and dispatch vehicles, individuals, and assets to points of interest based on their location.
These panels allow users to monitor the amount of fuel within a vehicle and schedule maintenance reminders that can be sent as an email or text message.
These panels allow users to see where a vehicle, asset, or individual has been during an exact time frame. Users can also set up specific times that an individual should be using a specific vehicle and link the driver's profile to the vehicle automatically.
Users can create an area for the generation of alerts and data when a vehicle is a certain distance from the area created.
Users can create a specific route that drivers must follow, and alerts users when a driver has strayed from the route by a certain distance.


This is crazy. In a recent video we see a woman stealing money from a man in a walker. While at the Burger King on 161st in the Bronx, the man put his money down in what looks like an attempt to pay for his food. The woman then snatches the money from the counter.
Damn – Mariah Carey & Elton John Banked HOW MUCH For ONE Wedding Performance?
Photo Credit: TMZ I need to either marry rich or become a successful singer, because both come with some really sweet perks. 19-year-old Irene Kogan got married over the weekend (a little young, but that's neither here nor there,) and both Mariah Carey and Elton John were in attendance, thanks to Irene's Russian billionaire grandad Valery Kogan. And just how much did Mimi and Elton bank for their quick Ireland gig? Oh, just a cool $4.2 million! Imagine making that in ONE DAY? Some people don't make that in a lifetime! TMZ reports that Mariah's set sounded great, and she decided "We Belong Together" to the new couple. Elton John also killed it with an impressive 12 song set. Check out some footage of the night below. If you had the means, who would you get to perform at your wedding? Let us know!
We recently found out that Kanye West may score big with his insurance company for millions if he can prove he had health issues. Well truth be told, all they have to do is listen to 'Life of Pablo.' There are three songs on the album that speak on Kanye struggling mentally.
No more drama for Tyga – at least for now! Following a lawsuit and even a deposition, he's finally paid off most of his debt to jeweler Jason of Beverly Hills. This is the same one who recently grilled Tyga on his assets, and even subpoenaed Kylie to discuss them.
(Video) Boxing: Floyd Mayweather Shows Off $1 Million in Cash!
Floyd "Money" Mayweather is always showing off his money and everything that it buys him, jewelry, cars, and women. After throwing out $100 bills on stage with Lil Kim at the Bad Boy Reunion tour, the former boxing champion posted a video on his Instagram account with stacks and stacks of money laid out. He also used the video to promo one of his girlfriend's websites, Bad Medina.
Looks like someone is really pushing Tyga to cough up the money he owes them…one person out of how many now?
Depending on your Instagram taste, Mephis Rapper Blac Youngsta is either the funniest, most ignorant, or most inspiring person on ya TL. Your opinions more than likely come from the way he shows his love for his money. To me its hilarious and inspiring, inspiring cause this young man came from nothing and hilarious because well if you watch the videos you know why lmao. These videos are comedic classics and today hes dropped another one of his many love for money gems. Check out the new video and a couple of past favorites after the jump.
Uhhhh.. yeah! A little lost. In a video we see a man flashing money inside of jail. I guess the first question is who is recording and how?


Original publication and holotype designation: Gardner, N.L. (1909). New Chlorophyceae from California. University of California Publications in Botany 3: 371-375.
Description: Endophyte of sparingly and irregularly branched filaments within host medulla, producing short branches toward its surface. Vegetative cells with parietal more or less perforated chloroplast with one to few pyrenoids. Cells of 'medullary filaments' relatively thin, long, and pale whereas those in host cortex relatively broad, short, and green. Hairs not formed. Apical cells of branches in host cortex form sporangia; biflagellate anisogametes or quadriflagellate zoospores produced after sequential division of protoplast. Germination unilateral. Generations isomorphic. Haploid chromosome number = (9)-10-(11) for E. ramosum. Endophyton endophytic in red and brown algae, recorded from Pacific coast of North America, Bering and Antarctic Seas. Although only one species known, a second name is a nom. nud. Eight different morphotypes breafly mentioned in literature which may represent different species.
Information contributed by: R. Nielsen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 12 Sep 2009 by Stephen Cusack.


Conducting a hiring interview is often enough to put a manager on edge. But add to that an applicant with an obvious disability, like a hearing impairment, and a manager may be overcome with apprehensions of not only selecting the best candidate possible, but also of steering clear of landing the company in an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) imbroglio.
Now hear this: One company was ordered to pay a hearing-impaired applicant five years in back pay and $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. The applicant, who has been "profoundly deaf" since birth, was interviewed on two separate occasions and given a medical exam. He was eventually offered the position of line mechanic only to have it rescinded before his start date.
The company cited safety reasons for its change of hiring heart. But the applicant was convinced discrimination was at play. So he filed an ADA lawsuit.
Finding in favor of the applicant, the court offered the following reasoning.
1) The company did not discuss what kinds of accommodation were necessary. Had it engaged in the interactive process, the company would have discovered that the applicant was able perform all of the essential job functions with or without accommodation, and was able to perform the described function of a line mechanic with "only a few and very minor exceptions."
2) The job description itself failed to show that tasks even utilized, let alone relied on, the ability to hear.
Applicants with hearing impairments present a unique challenge to employers during the hiring interview. Keep the following tips in mind to help see that things go smoothly.
- Maintain eye contact with the applicant and speak directly to him/her, even if an interpreter is present. Use body language and facial expressions to help convey your message.
- When utilizing an interpreter, carry on the conversation as if you are speaking to the person with the hearing impairment, not the interpreter. Use the words "I" and "you." Don't say: "Tell him..." or "Does she understand?" to the interpreter.
- Ask open-ended questions to ensure effective communication. Avoid assuming that a nod by a hearing-impaired individual means he/she understands your message.
- Avoid pretending the disability doesn't exist. Instead, engage in the interactive process with the applicant to determine what accommodations are necessary, if any.


Moycarkey-Borris were defeated by Na Sairsealaigh Og in the Mid Tipperary Minor A Hurling Championship on Wednesday last and will compete against Holycross Ballycahill this Wednesday, July 20th at 7.30pm in Holycross.
Commiserations to our Under 14 team who were defeated by JK Brackens in the Mid Tipperary Under 14 A Hurling Championship Quarter Final.
Commiserations to our Under 12 Group 1 team who were narrowly defeated by Holycross Ballycahill in the Semi Final on Tuesday last. It was a very competitive game with two very good teams.
Best wishes to our Group 4 team who will compete against Holycross Ballycahill on Tuesday, July 19th in Littleton at 7.00pm.
The Junior team were defeated by Thurles Sarsfields in the Tipperary Ladies Football Junior A Championship.
Commiserations to Moycarkey Borris Under 16 team who were defeated by Fethard in the Tipperary Under 16 Camogie Summer League.
On Monday, July 11th Moycarkey Borris defeated Arravale Rovers in the Tipperary Camogie Summer League to secure their place in a Quarter Final which was played on Friday, July 15th in Littleton. Their opponents in the Quarter Final was Ballybacon Grange who they defeated; Moycarkey Borris 3-5 Ballybacon Grange 1-1. They now look forward to the Semi Final against Kiladangan which will be played on Saturday, July 23rd at 3.00pm in the Ragg Camogie Grounds.
Congratulations to the Moycarkey Borris Under 12 team who defeated Slieve Felim Rapparees in the Tipperary Ladies Football Under 12 Summer League.
On Saturday our Under 12 team travelled to Fethard to play in a Camogie Blitz playing Rockwell Rovers and Fethard.
Our Under 8 team travelled to the Ragg Camogie Grounds on Saturday last to take part in a Tipperary Camogie Blitz. They played 3 matches on the day competing against Cahir and Moneygall.
Moycarkey Borris Players – Eva Ralph, Grace Flanagan, Hannah Hogan, Anna Maxwell, Laura Kennedy, Jennifer Kelly, Isobel Kelly, Danielle Moore, Ruby O'Dwyer, Ella Lee, Courtney O'Halloran, Molly O'Keeffe, Sadbh McGrath.
Congratulations to Michaella Graham who captained the Tipperary Intermediate Camogie Team to Munster Championship success.


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Callum Westwood
Joined: Jan-17
Senior Debut: Loughborough Dynamo (Home) 28/01/17
Previous Clubs: Kettering Town, Rugby Town
Teresa Hales from Stanwick
Callum Westwood is a 20-year-old right back who signed for the club on dual registration terms with Kettering Town in January 2017. He was previously dual registered with the Poppies and Rugby Town. Before signing for the Poppies he was with the Northampton Town Youth Academy. After an impressive debut was cut short by injury he was able to make 10 appearances for the club in 2016/17.He signed dual registration terms with Melton Town in October 2018.
2016/17 NPL First Division South 9 (0) 0 2 1 0
2016/17 NPL League Cup 1 (0) 0 0 0 0
2017/18 Southern League D1 East 15 (6) 0 3 0 1
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Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit
Leslie Hill
Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
What happens when philosophy and literature meet? What is at stake when the text of a so-called single author begins to speak in two languages, now the language of theoretical reflexion, now the ... More
What happens when philosophy and literature meet? What is at stake when the text of a so-called single author begins to speak in two languages, now the language of theoretical reflexion, now the language of narrative fiction? And what relation does writing have to the limit that defines it, but, by exposing it to the limitlessness that lies beyond it, also threatens its possibility? These are some of the questions raised by three of the most provocative and influential French writers of the 20th century: Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001), and Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). Examining all three together for the first time, this pioneering study explores their response to a double challenge: that of assuming the burden of philosophy whilst at the same time affirming the shadows, spirits, and spectres that go under the name of literature. It considers in detail the philosophical and literary heritage shared by all three writers (Sade, Hegel, and Nietzsche), and analyses in turn both the philosophical writing and literary output of all three authors, paying particular attention to Bataille's Histoire de l'œil, Le Bleu du ciel, and Madame Edwarda; Klossowski's Les Lois de l'hospitalité, and Blanchot's Le Très-Haut and Le Dernier Homme.Less
Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot : Writing at the Limit
What happens when philosophy and literature meet? What is at stake when the text of a so-called single author begins to speak in two languages, now the language of theoretical reflexion, now the language of narrative fiction? And what relation does writing have to the limit that defines it, but, by exposing it to the limitlessness that lies beyond it, also threatens its possibility? These are some of the questions raised by three of the most provocative and influential French writers of the 20th century: Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001), and Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). Examining all three together for the first time, this pioneering study explores their response to a double challenge: that of assuming the burden of philosophy whilst at the same time affirming the shadows, spirits, and spectres that go under the name of literature. It considers in detail the philosophical and literary heritage shared by all three writers (Sade, Hegel, and Nietzsche), and analyses in turn both the philosophical writing and literary output of all three authors, paying particular attention to Bataille's Histoire de l'œil, Le Bleu du ciel, and Madame Edwarda; Klossowski's Les Lois de l'hospitalité, and Blanchot's Le Très-Haut and Le Dernier Homme.
Keywords: Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, twentieth-century French literature, philosophy, fiction, limitlessness
The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation
Rodolphe Gasché
This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical ... More
This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in distinction from one of its others—namely, philosophy—but above all by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the text and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and interlacing. This conception of the text as an artisanal fabric is, the book holds, the unreflected presupposition of both realist, or historicist, and reflective, or deconstructive, criticism. This book argues that the scenes of production within literary works, created by their authors yet independent of those authors' intentions, stage a work's own production in virtual fashion and thus accomplish for those works a certain ideal ontological status that allows for both historical endurance and creative interpretation. In the book's construction of these scenes, in which literary works render visible within their own fabric the invisible conditions of their autonomous existence, certain images prevail: the fold, the star, the veil. By showing that these literary images are not simply the opposites of concepts, the text not only puts into question the common opposition between literature and philosophy but shows that literary works perform a way of argumentation that, in spite of all its difference from philosophical conceptuality, is on a par with it. The argument progresses through close readings of literary works by Lautramont, Nerval, de l'Isle Adam, Huysman, Flaubert, Artaud, Blanchot, Defoe, and Melville.Less
The Stelliferous Fold : Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation
This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond the conventional divide between realism/formalism and history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in distinction from one of its others—namely, philosophy—but above all by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the text and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and interlacing. This conception of the text as an artisanal fabric is, the book holds, the unreflected presupposition of both realist, or historicist, and reflective, or deconstructive, criticism. This book argues that the scenes of production within literary works, created by their authors yet independent of those authors' intentions, stage a work's own production in virtual fashion and thus accomplish for those works a certain ideal ontological status that allows for both historical endurance and creative interpretation. In the book's construction of these scenes, in which literary works render visible within their own fabric the invisible conditions of their autonomous existence, certain images prevail: the fold, the star, the veil. By showing that these literary images are not simply the opposites of concepts, the text not only puts into question the common opposition between literature and philosophy but shows that literary works perform a way of argumentation that, in spite of all its difference from philosophical conceptuality, is on a par with it. The argument progresses through close readings of literary works by Lautramont, Nerval, de l'Isle Adam, Huysman, Flaubert, Artaud, Blanchot, Defoe, and Melville.
Keywords: realism, formalism, history, aestheticism, literature, literary works, Lautramont, Nerval, de l'Isle Adam, Huysman, Flaubert, Artaud, Blanchot, Defoe, Melville
The Return of Genius: Mad Poets
This chapter chronicles the return of genius as a viable object of thought, this time in the context of madness. It first turns to the conjunction between neurosis and full-blown psychosis where ... More
This chapter chronicles the return of genius as a viable object of thought, this time in the context of madness. It first turns to the conjunction between neurosis and full-blown psychosis where genius commands greatest attention in the latter half of the twentieth century. This is explored in the case of Friedrich Hölderlin, who becomes the object of theoretical attention in the early 1950s. The chapter shows how, in the early years of theory Pierre Jean Jouve (a poet-essayist, more than a theorist in the late twentieth-century style) and Maurice Blanchot have examined the case of Hölderlin, with supporting illustration from other examples.Less
The Return of Genius : Mad Poets
This chapter chronicles the return of genius as a viable object of thought, this time in the context of madness. It first turns to the conjunction between neurosis and full-blown psychosis where genius commands greatest attention in the latter half of the twentieth century. This is explored in the case of Friedrich Hölderlin, who becomes the object of theoretical attention in the early 1950s. The chapter shows how, in the early years of theory Pierre Jean Jouve (a poet-essayist, more than a theorist in the late twentieth-century style) and Maurice Blanchot have examined the case of Hölderlin, with supporting illustration from other examples.
Keywords: mad poets, madness, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Jean Jouve, Maurice Blanchot, French theory, insanity, psychoanalysis
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject
John Martis
10.5422/fso/9780823225347.001.0001
This is a full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. This book introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, demonstrating the ... More
This is a full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. This book introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery, it places Lacoue-Labarthe's achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot.Less
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe : Representation and the Loss of the Subject
This is a full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. This book introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery, it places Lacoue-Labarthe's achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot.
Keywords: philosophy, subject, loss, post-deconstructive recovery, Nancy, Derrida, Blanchot
The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature
Herschel Farbman
Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This book is about dreams. It looks at the works of several authors that make the dream a central concern. "I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless ... More
This book is about dreams. It looks at the works of several authors that make the dream a central concern. "I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no "I" can declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dream books, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the "I" sleeps doesn't sleep when the "I" wakes. Revisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, this book looks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives.Less
The Other Night : Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book is about dreams. It looks at the works of several authors that make the dream a central concern. "I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no "I" can declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dream books, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the "I" sleeps doesn't sleep when the "I" wakes. Revisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, this book looks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives.
Keywords: sleep, Song of Songs, other night, dreams, dream books, Beckett, Blanchot, Freud, Joyce, writing
Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other
Kas Saghafi
Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
The chapters of this book revolve around the notion of the other in Jacques Derrida's work. How does Derrida write of and on the other? Arguing that Derrida offers the most attentive ... More
The chapters of this book revolve around the notion of the other in Jacques Derrida's work. How does Derrida write of and on the other? Arguing that Derrida offers the most attentive and responsible thinking about "the undeniable experience of the alterity of the other", this book examines exemplary instances of the relation to the other, e.g. the relation of Moses to God, Derrida's friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, and Derrida's relation to a recently departed actress caught on video, to demonstrate how Derrida forces us to reconceive who or what the other may be. For Derrida, the singularity of the other, always written in the lower case, includes not only the formal or logical sense of alterity, the otherness of the human other, but also the otherness of the nonliving, the no longer living, or the not yet alive. The book explores welcoming and hospitality, salutation and greeting, "approaching", and mourning as constitutive facets of the relation to these others. Addressing Derrida's readings of Husserl, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot, and Nancy, among other thinkers, and ranging across a number of disciplines, including art, literature, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the apparitions of the other by attending to the mode of appearing or coming on the scene, the phenomenality and visibility of the other. Analyzing some of Derrida's essays on the visual arts, the book also demonstrates that video and photography display an intimate relation to "spectrality", as well as a structural relation to the absolute singularity of the other.Less
The chapters of this book revolve around the notion of the other in Jacques Derrida's work. How does Derrida write of and on the other? Arguing that Derrida offers the most attentive and responsible thinking about "the undeniable experience of the alterity of the other", this book examines exemplary instances of the relation to the other, e.g. the relation of Moses to God, Derrida's friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, and Derrida's relation to a recently departed actress caught on video, to demonstrate how Derrida forces us to reconceive who or what the other may be. For Derrida, the singularity of the other, always written in the lower case, includes not only the formal or logical sense of alterity, the otherness of the human other, but also the otherness of the nonliving, the no longer living, or the not yet alive. The book explores welcoming and hospitality, salutation and greeting, "approaching", and mourning as constitutive facets of the relation to these others. Addressing Derrida's readings of Husserl, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot, and Nancy, among other thinkers, and ranging across a number of disciplines, including art, literature, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the apparitions of the other by attending to the mode of appearing or coming on the scene, the phenomenality and visibility of the other. Analyzing some of Derrida's essays on the visual arts, the book also demonstrates that video and photography display an intimate relation to "spectrality", as well as a structural relation to the absolute singularity of the other.
Keywords: other, Jacques Derrida, relation, Moses, God, otherness, Husserl, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot
Intrigues: From Being to the Other
Gabriel Riera
This book examines the possibility of writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible, and discusses what the implications are for ... More
This book examines the possibility of writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible, and discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. It focuses on the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Martin Heidegger and examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power. The book's horizon is ethics in the Levinasian sense: the question of the other, which, on the hither side of language understood as a system of signs and of representation, must be welcomed by language and preserved in its alterity. Martin Heidegger's elucidation of a more essential understanding of Being entails a deconstruction of onto-theology, of the sign and the grammatical and logical determinations of language, all decisive starting points for Levinas and Blanchot. At stake for both Levinas and Blanchot is how to mark a nondiscursive excess within discourse without erasing or reducing it. How should one read and write the other in the same without reducing the other to the same? Critics in recent years have discussed an "ethical moment or turn" characterized by the other's irruption into the order of discourse. The other becomes a true crossroads of disciplines, since it affects several aspects of discourse: the constitution of the subject, the status of knowledge, the nature of representation, and what that representation represses. Yet there has been a tendency to graft the other onto paradigms whose main purpose is to reassess questions of identity, fundamentally in terms of representation; the other thus loses some of its most crucial features.Less
Intrigues : From Being to the Other
This book examines the possibility of writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible, and discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. It focuses on the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Martin Heidegger and examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power. The book's horizon is ethics in the Levinasian sense: the question of the other, which, on the hither side of language understood as a system of signs and of representation, must be welcomed by language and preserved in its alterity. Martin Heidegger's elucidation of a more essential understanding of Being entails a deconstruction of onto-theology, of the sign and the grammatical and logical determinations of language, all decisive starting points for Levinas and Blanchot. At stake for both Levinas and Blanchot is how to mark a nondiscursive excess within discourse without erasing or reducing it. How should one read and write the other in the same without reducing the other to the same? Critics in recent years have discussed an "ethical moment or turn" characterized by the other's irruption into the order of discourse. The other becomes a true crossroads of disciplines, since it affects several aspects of discourse: the constitution of the subject, the status of knowledge, the nature of representation, and what that representation represses. Yet there has been a tendency to graft the other onto paradigms whose main purpose is to reassess questions of identity, fundamentally in terms of representation; the other thus loses some of its most crucial features.
Keywords: Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Martin Heidegger, the other, philosophy, rationality, power, language, signs, representation
'Not Read and Consumed in the Same Way as Other Books': Identification and the Genre of Testimony
Robert Eaglestone
in The Holocaust and the Postmodern
This chapter argues for the singularity of Holocaust testimonies as a genre. Analysing a range of commentary on testimonies by survivors and critics, it finds the current ideas about this form of ... More
This chapter argues for the singularity of Holocaust testimonies as a genre. Analysing a range of commentary on testimonies by survivors and critics, it finds the current ideas about this form of writing lacking. It argues that testimonies both encourage, through their form, and reject, for ethical and epistemological reasons, the empathic identifications of readers. In order to understand this better, the chapter analyses currently very insufficient theoretical accounts of identification, and then sets them in the context of debates over the form of Holocaust testimonies, trauma, and imagery. It concludes by offering an account of the genre of testimony and its importance, arguing that this tension between identification and its prohibition is central to these testimony texts.Less
This chapter argues for the singularity of Holocaust testimonies as a genre. Analysing a range of commentary on testimonies by survivors and critics, it finds the current ideas about this form of writing lacking. It argues that testimonies both encourage, through their form, and reject, for ethical and epistemological reasons, the empathic identifications of readers. In order to understand this better, the chapter analyses currently very insufficient theoretical accounts of identification, and then sets them in the context of debates over the form of Holocaust testimonies, trauma, and imagery. It concludes by offering an account of the genre of testimony and its importance, arguing that this tension between identification and its prohibition is central to these testimony texts.
Keywords: Holocaust testimony, Primo Levi, Jorge Semprun, Eli Wiesel, Charlotte Delbo, Maruice Blanchot, identification, genre, trauma
The Disavowed Community
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"—Nancy ... More
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community (2014). Unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot's text, Nancy's essay addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot's thinking. These themes and motifs include: their respective readings of Georges Bataille, notably his political writings as well as his appeal to the "community of lovers"; pre- and post-war responses in France to fascism and communism; the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; the relation between the disenchantment with democracy and "aristocratic anarchism"; readings of Marguerite Duras's récit, The Malady of Death; references to the Eucharist and Christianity; and a rethinking of politics and the political. In short, the exchange between Blanchot and Nancy opens up a rethinking of community that raises at once questions of affirmation and critique, of avowal and disavowal.Less
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community (2014). Unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot's text, Nancy's essay addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot's thinking. These themes and motifs include: their respective readings of Georges Bataille, notably his political writings as well as his appeal to the "community of lovers"; pre- and post-war responses in France to fascism and communism; the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; the relation between the disenchantment with democracy and "aristocratic anarchism"; readings of Marguerite Duras's récit, The Malady of Death; references to the Eucharist and Christianity; and a rethinking of politics and the political. In short, the exchange between Blanchot and Nancy opens up a rethinking of community that raises at once questions of affirmation and critique, of avowal and disavowal.
Keywords: Bataille, Georges, Blanchot, Maurice, communism, community, disavowal, Duras, Marguerite, politics
'JOEY RULES': Telling the Truth in Life & Times of Michael K
Patrick Hayes
in J.M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett
Literature, World Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
One of the questions that serious readers must pose of literary fiction—especially fiction as politically charged as Coetzee's—is whether it is telling the truth. This chapter explores what it means ... More
One of the questions that serious readers must pose of literary fiction—especially fiction as politically charged as Coetzee's—is whether it is telling the truth. This chapter explores what it means for literature to speak truth to power, focusing in particular on the presentation of heroism in Life & Times of Michael K, and upon the political debate that has aggregated around that text. I will argue that Coetzee draws upon an understanding of literary truth inspired by Kafka and Blanchot as part of his broader attempt to steer between two different ways of understanding how literature addresses politics: that is to say, between a high‐culturalist view, which he describes as 'rivalry', and a view that collapses culture into politics, which he calls 'supplementarity'.Less
One of the questions that serious readers must pose of literary fiction—especially fiction as politically charged as Coetzee's—is whether it is telling the truth. This chapter explores what it means for literature to speak truth to power, focusing in particular on the presentation of heroism in Life & Times of Michael K, and upon the political debate that has aggregated around that text. I will argue that Coetzee draws upon an understanding of literary truth inspired by Kafka and Blanchot as part of his broader attempt to steer between two different ways of understanding how literature addresses politics: that is to say, between a high‐culturalist view, which he describes as 'rivalry', and a view that collapses culture into politics, which he calls 'supplementarity'.
Keywords: literary truth, high cultural, rivalry, supplementarity, heroism, Kafka, Blanchot
The Passing of the Canon
Geoffrey Hartman
in Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon
This chapter focuses on the response of Geoffrey Hartman to Frank Kermode's lectures. Hartman questions the role of pleasure set forth by Kermode. He criticizes the use of the term pleasure as ... More
This chapter focuses on the response of Geoffrey Hartman to Frank Kermode's lectures. Hartman questions the role of pleasure set forth by Kermode. He criticizes the use of the term pleasure as "problematic or abysmal" and "remains descriptively poor when thematized this way." Hartmann then discusses his own interpretation of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence" and moves on to suggest that a way of approaching the discussion on canon formation is to replace the pleasure/unpleasure complex with unpower/power, which is based upon the philosophy of Emmanuel Lavinas and Maurice Blanchot.Less
This chapter focuses on the response of Geoffrey Hartman to Frank Kermode's lectures. Hartman questions the role of pleasure set forth by Kermode. He criticizes the use of the term pleasure as "problematic or abysmal" and "remains descriptively poor when thematized this way." Hartmann then discusses his own interpretation of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence" and moves on to suggest that a way of approaching the discussion on canon formation is to replace the pleasure/unpleasure complex with unpower/power, which is based upon the philosophy of Emmanuel Lavinas and Maurice Blanchot.
Keywords: Geoffrey Hartmann, Frank Kermode, pleasure, Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, canon formation, pleasure/unpleasure, unpower/power, Emmanuel Lavinas, Maurice Blanchot
Anthony Cordingley
in Samuel Beckett's How It Is: Philosophy in Translation
This chapter sets out the history of the reception of Beckett's How It Is and accounts for its relative neglect. The main lines of critical interpretation are identified and then challenged. The ... More
This chapter sets out the history of the reception of Beckett's How It Is and accounts for its relative neglect. The main lines of critical interpretation are identified and then challenged. The work's particular hermeneutic problems are discussed in relation to different theoretical orientations (post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, historicist and materialist), before exploring the text's own representation of the relationships between voice and writing, memory and archive.Less
This chapter sets out the history of the reception of Beckett's How It Is and accounts for its relative neglect. The main lines of critical interpretation are identified and then challenged. The work's particular hermeneutic problems are discussed in relation to different theoretical orientations (post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, historicist and materialist), before exploring the text's own representation of the relationships between voice and writing, memory and archive.
Keywords: Samuel Beckett, Modernism, Philosophy, Translation, Bilingualism, Archive, Memory, Genetic criticism, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida
The Imperative of Transparency: Maurice Blanchot's the one who was standing apart from me
in The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation
To engage with a philosophical question already at work in a narrative, or rather, a récit, such as Maurice Blanchot's the one who was standing apart from me, or to engage with one that may ... More
To engage with a philosophical question already at work in a narrative, or rather, a récit, such as Maurice Blanchot's the one who was standing apart from me, or to engage with one that may illuminate it, this chapter asks whether or not this requires a prior philosophical reading first to locate such a question, or to establish the narrative's philosophical credentials so that a specific philosophical question can shed light on it. However, if such a reading implies the search for a thematic content that is philosophically significant, or that takes place in view of principles underpinning Blanchot's writings and thought, then his fictional texts may have little to offer. Any philosophical approach must take the one who was standing apart from me just as it offers itself. And it must do so without trying to recuperate anything that Blanchot was himself clearly at pains to eradicate.Less
To engage with a philosophical question already at work in a narrative, or rather, a récit, such as Maurice Blanchot's the one who was standing apart from me, or to engage with one that may illuminate it, this chapter asks whether or not this requires a prior philosophical reading first to locate such a question, or to establish the narrative's philosophical credentials so that a specific philosophical question can shed light on it. However, if such a reading implies the search for a thematic content that is philosophically significant, or that takes place in view of principles underpinning Blanchot's writings and thought, then his fictional texts may have little to offer. Any philosophical approach must take the one who was standing apart from me just as it offers itself. And it must do so without trying to recuperate anything that Blanchot was himself clearly at pains to eradicate.
Keywords: narrative, récit, Maurice Blanchot, philosophical reading, Blanchot's writings
The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing
Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the book ... More
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the book explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible—a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.Less
The Other Shore : Essays on Writers and Writing
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the book explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible—a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.
Keywords: modes of writing, modes of understanding, modes of being, oral storytelling, magic, meditation, Maurice Blanchot, mystic, experiences
Ending and Unending Agony: On Maurice Blanchot
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Published posthumously in 2011, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of ... More
Published posthumously in 2011, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions about the status of literature, the implications of which are steeped in political and ethical stakes. Ranking alongside the works of better-known interlocutors for Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking such as Plato, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Benjamin, or Heidegger, Blanchot's writings represent a decisive crossroads of almost all of Lacoue-Labarthe's central concerns. The latter converge here on the question of literature and, in particular, of literature as the question of myth–in this instance, the myth of the writer born of the autobiographical experience of death, a myth with which Lacoue-Labarthe himself had to contend, namely through his experience of reading–and writing after–Maurice Blanchot. But the issues at stake in this encounter are not merely (auto)biographical; they entail a relentless struggle with processes of figuration and mythicization inherited from the age-old concept of mimesis and to which all Western literature is subject. As this volume demonstrates, the originality of Blanchot's thought lies in its problematic but obstinate deconstruction of precisely such processes. In addition to offering unique, challenging readings of Blanchot's writings, setting them among a variety of key texts by writers and thinkers as diverse as Montaigne, Rousseau, Freud, Winnicott, Artaud, Bataille, Lacan, Malraux, Leclaire, or Derrida, this translation further familiarizes English-speaking audiences with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's groundbreaking work and, as such, with contemporary debates in French thought, criticism, and aesthetics.Less
Ending and Unending Agony : On Maurice Blanchot
Published posthumously in 2011, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions about the status of literature, the implications of which are steeped in political and ethical stakes. Ranking alongside the works of better-known interlocutors for Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking such as Plato, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Benjamin, or Heidegger, Blanchot's writings represent a decisive crossroads of almost all of Lacoue-Labarthe's central concerns. The latter converge here on the question of literature and, in particular, of literature as the question of myth–in this instance, the myth of the writer born of the autobiographical experience of death, a myth with which Lacoue-Labarthe himself had to contend, namely through his experience of reading–and writing after–Maurice Blanchot. But the issues at stake in this encounter are not merely (auto)biographical; they entail a relentless struggle with processes of figuration and mythicization inherited from the age-old concept of mimesis and to which all Western literature is subject. As this volume demonstrates, the originality of Blanchot's thought lies in its problematic but obstinate deconstruction of precisely such processes. In addition to offering unique, challenging readings of Blanchot's writings, setting them among a variety of key texts by writers and thinkers as diverse as Montaigne, Rousseau, Freud, Winnicott, Artaud, Bataille, Lacan, Malraux, Leclaire, or Derrida, this translation further familiarizes English-speaking audiences with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's groundbreaking work and, as such, with contemporary debates in French thought, criticism, and aesthetics.
Keywords: Lacoue-Labarthe, Blanchot, myth, birth of literature, primal scene, experience of death, autobiography, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, deconstruction
Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
Yoon Sook Cha
Decreation and the Ethical Bind identifies a decreative ethics, whereby self-dispossession underwrites an ethical obligation to preserve the other from harm. The author shows how obligation emerges ... More
Decreation and the Ethical Bind identifies a decreative ethics, whereby self-dispossession underwrites an ethical obligation to preserve the other from harm. The author shows how obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: between the other's subject affirmation and one's own dislocation, between what one has and what one has to give, between a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand of asking nothing. In the unfolding and reiteration of themes issuing from the other's claim upon oneself develops a complex picture of the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality. Just how these tensions both subtend and undercut an other-centered ethics of preservation is the question this book tarries with. By proposing a way to read the distinct ethical charge of the other's claim not to be harmed, Decreation and the Ethical Bind offers a novel treatment of the concept of decreation in the thought of Simone Weil, putting her work in dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Judith Butler. In examining themes of ethical obligation, vulnerability and the force of weak speech, the present study places Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech are bound up with questions of ethical appeal. It contributes a new and critical voice to the current conversation in theory and criticism that addresses a difficult form of ethics that isn't grounded in subjective agency and narrative fruition, but in the risks taken to fulfill the claims it makes.Less
Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
Decreation and the Ethical Bind identifies a decreative ethics, whereby self-dispossession underwrites an ethical obligation to preserve the other from harm. The author shows how obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: between the other's subject affirmation and one's own dislocation, between what one has and what one has to give, between a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand of asking nothing. In the unfolding and reiteration of themes issuing from the other's claim upon oneself develops a complex picture of the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality. Just how these tensions both subtend and undercut an other-centered ethics of preservation is the question this book tarries with. By proposing a way to read the distinct ethical charge of the other's claim not to be harmed, Decreation and the Ethical Bind offers a novel treatment of the concept of decreation in the thought of Simone Weil, putting her work in dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Judith Butler. In examining themes of ethical obligation, vulnerability and the force of weak speech, the present study places Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech are bound up with questions of ethical appeal. It contributes a new and critical voice to the current conversation in theory and criticism that addresses a difficult form of ethics that isn't grounded in subjective agency and narrative fruition, but in the risks taken to fulfill the claims it makes.
Keywords: Maurice Blanchot, Judith Butler, decreative ethics, ethical relationality, force, Emmanuel Levinas, obligation, other-centered ethics of preservation, self-dispossession, vulnerability
Beginning with Literature
in Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty
This chapter reviews Derrida's engagement with literature in The Death Penalty, Volume I. It explicates the notion of "the right to literature" and its relation to democracy ("No democracy without ... More
This chapter reviews Derrida's engagement with literature in The Death Penalty, Volume I. It explicates the notion of "the right to literature" and its relation to democracy ("No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy," as Derrida has declared elsewhere). It works through Derrida's reading of texts by Genet, Hugo, and Blanchot. It also recalls Derrida's analysis in Given Time of the "absolute secret" of literature and includes a brief reading of Camus's The Stranger.Less
This chapter reviews Derrida's engagement with literature in The Death Penalty, Volume I. It explicates the notion of "the right to literature" and its relation to democracy ("No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy," as Derrida has declared elsewhere). It works through Derrida's reading of texts by Genet, Hugo, and Blanchot. It also recalls Derrida's analysis in Given Time of the "absolute secret" of literature and includes a brief reading of Camus's The Stranger.
Keywords: Blanchot, Camus, death penalty, Derrida, Genet
Unavowable Community
in Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit
This chapter considers in turn the bonds of friendship linking Bataille, Klossowski, and Blanchot, the essays that each devoted to the others' work, and the shared, if paradoxical, intellectual ... More
This chapter considers in turn the bonds of friendship linking Bataille, Klossowski, and Blanchot, the essays that each devoted to the others' work, and the shared, if paradoxical, intellectual legacy of Sade, Hegel, and Nietzsche.Less
This chapter considers in turn the bonds of friendship linking Bataille, Klossowski, and Blanchot, the essays that each devoted to the others' work, and the shared, if paradoxical, intellectual legacy of Sade, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
Keywords: Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, Sade, Hegel, Nietzsche
Death, Writing, Neutrality
This chapter explores Maurice Blanchot's complex treatment of the question of the possibility and impossibility of death and dying in a number of key texts. In particular, it offers a sustained ... More
This chapter explores Maurice Blanchot's complex treatment of the question of the possibility and impossibility of death and dying in a number of key texts. In particular, it offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's 1948 novel Le Très-Haut, which it shows to be a philosophically grounded political novel about politics, one that engages with urgent contemporary questions about the law and the legitimacy of the post-war French State, and demonstrates the constitutive limits of the political sphere. Against this backdrop, it considers Blanchot's account of the neuter in the texts of Kafka, before going on to examine the complex dialogue taking place between fictional writing and the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger in Blanchot's 1957 story Le Dernier Homme. In conclusion, it emphasises the irreducibility of literary writing to philosophical perspectives in the work of Blanchot.Less
This chapter explores Maurice Blanchot's complex treatment of the question of the possibility and impossibility of death and dying in a number of key texts. In particular, it offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's 1948 novel Le Très-Haut, which it shows to be a philosophically grounded political novel about politics, one that engages with urgent contemporary questions about the law and the legitimacy of the post-war French State, and demonstrates the constitutive limits of the political sphere. Against this backdrop, it considers Blanchot's account of the neuter in the texts of Kafka, before going on to examine the complex dialogue taking place between fictional writing and the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger in Blanchot's 1957 story Le Dernier Homme. In conclusion, it emphasises the irreducibility of literary writing to philosophical perspectives in the work of Blanchot.
Keywords: Blanchot, the neuter, Kafka, Heidegger, Nietzsche
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality
Literature, Women's Literature
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker ... More
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013, Davis writes innovative short stories that question the boundaries of the genre. She is also an important translator of French writers such as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Marcel Proust and Gustave Flaubert. Translation and writing go hand-in-hand in Davis's work. Through a series of readings of Davis's major translations and her own writing, this book investigates how Davis's translations and stories relate to each other, finding that they are inextricably interlinked. It explores how Davis uses translation - either as a compositional tool or a plot device - and other instances of rewriting in her stories, demonstrating that translation is central for understanding her prose. Understanding how Davis's work complicates divisions between translating and other forms of writing highlights the role of translation in literary production, questioning the received perception that translation is less creative than other forms of writing.Less
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis : Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013, Davis writes innovative short stories that question the boundaries of the genre. She is also an important translator of French writers such as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Marcel Proust and Gustave Flaubert. Translation and writing go hand-in-hand in Davis's work. Through a series of readings of Davis's major translations and her own writing, this book investigates how Davis's translations and stories relate to each other, finding that they are inextricably interlinked. It explores how Davis uses translation - either as a compositional tool or a plot device - and other instances of rewriting in her stories, demonstrating that translation is central for understanding her prose. Understanding how Davis's work complicates divisions between translating and other forms of writing highlights the role of translation in literary production, questioning the received perception that translation is less creative than other forms of writing.
Keywords: Translation, Contemporary Literature, Creativity, Rewriting, Intertextuality, Transatlantic literature, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust


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Teacher: John Immel
Drawing on years of research and clinical experience specializing in digestive disorders, John Immel directs the Joyful Belly School of Ayurvedic Diet & Digestion. He is the founder of Joyful Belly, an educational Ayurvedic health care website, and oversees the Joyful Belly Clinic.
John studied Ayurveda under Dr. Vasant Lad and is specialized in the advanced treatment of digestive tract pathology. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. He first discovered Ayurveda while working on a public health project in Bangladesh. John's interest in Ayurveda and digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel.
After witnessing Ayurveda's compelling efficiency and practical ease in treatment of his own digestive disorder, John was convinced others could benefit. He sought a way to introduce Ayurveda to the broader American public and make it more culturally accessible. This was the genesis of Joyful Belly. Using ingredients familiar from his childhood, John created thousands of Ayurvedic recipes for the average American. Joyful Belly proves Ayurveda is a practical way to improve everyday health & wellness. His simple, direct and familiar approach has helped thousands on their journey to health. John recently published, "Explore Your Hunger: A Guide to Hunger, Appetite & Food" with co-author Natalie Immel.
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Teacher: Mary Thompson
Mary Thompson is an experienced educator and a heart-centered mentor to Ayurvedic practitioners. Having taught Ayurveda for over twenty years, she continues to find joy in supporting her students and clients to explore new realizations and adopt self-care practices that result in greater satisfaction in day-to-day life.
Her interest in Ayurveda began as she sought to find answers to her own health challenges. Once she found Ayurveda, she wanted to introduce these principles to others in need of greater health and happiness. At the time she was working with school-aged children and recognized that so many of their challenges were created by their diets and lifestyles. As soon as she completed her studies, she dived into teaching others and bringing these ancient principles to her clients, friends, family, students, and community- really to anyone who would listen.
Never far from the classroom, she now collaborates with a number of schools and programs, preparing curriculum and teaching. Starting a new career as she approaches 60 is exciting to her and she finds fulfillment with her work and her life.
She lives in the Sierras with her husband and teenage son.
Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Ayurvedic Practitioner
20+ years teaching experience
Pancha Karma Specialist, trained in US at CCA
Pancha Karma Certificate, trained in India with International Academy of Ayurveda
Teacher: Sarajean Rudman
Sarajean Rudman is a New England-based Clinical Nutritionist, Yogini, Ayurvedic practitioner, Life Coach, Fitness Instructor and Outdoor Adventure guide. She has over a decade of experience across many diverse fields in health and wellness. In addition to certifications in multiple fitness modalities, Sarajean holds a B.S. in Health and Wellness and Sports Management, an M.S. in Clinical Nutrition and Integrative Health, and an M.A. in Health and Wellness Coaching. Sarajean is a doctoral student studying Health Sciences and Healthcare Education at University of Bridgeport, expected to graduate in spring of 2020. She leads teacher trainings, workshops and retreats in yoga, mindfulness, nutrition, wellness and Ayurveda. Sarajean is the founder of the East-West Functional Medicine Podcast which launched early 2018 on iTunes and of the Skin-to-Skin podcast launching summer of 2019 on iTunes.
Teacher: Susan Bass
Susan Bass is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist who is the Founder and Director of the Sarasvati Mission and the Sarasvati Institute of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. She has been training people in the Vedic traditions for over 16 years. In addition to training teachers at her own school she is also Adjunct Faculty in the Master of Science in Ayurveda at the National University of Natural Medicine. Susan has taught Ayurveda at OHSU Medical School, University of Portland School of Nursing, Nike International and International Association of Yoga Therapy.
AP, E-RYT 500, Adjunct Faculty, NUNM
Teacher: Marek Sawicki
Marek Sawicki is a highly trained international educator and experienced clinician in the fields of Ayurvedic Medicine, Yoga Therapy and Medical/ Orthopedic Massage. He has over two decades of experience in his successful private healthcare practice Living Alchemy Ayurveda, in Asheville, NC and over 9000 contact hours of teaching college / private school level programs in the Southeast region and internationally.
Marek spent 9 years as the Director, Curriculum Creator, and Lead Faculty Instructor of the 2300 hr. Associate Degree of Therapeutic Massage Program at AB-TECH Community College from 2009-2017. Over two decades of college level / private school and workshop teaching contributes to his effective, comprehensive, passionate presentations inspiring students to love and value their education and choice of serving through the art of healthcare.
His comprehensive education includes being a graduate of The Ayurvedic Institute of Albuquerque, N.M. under the guidance of Dr. Vasant Lad with the most comprehensive Ayurvedic training available in the US. This training is reinforced with two years of clinical internship under Dr. Alakananda Devi of Alandi Ayurvedic Gurukula specializing in Internal Herbal Medicine, Clinical Pancha Karma, Digestive Disorders, Parasitology, Stress Management, Women / Men's Health, Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Conditions and Chronic Pain Management.
Integrating these approaches under Ayurveda, Marek Sawicki attends to the needs of all levels of body, mind, and spirit with individualized herbal, dietary, lifestyle, detoxification, rejuvenation, manual and yoga therapy programs. He has been described by long term clients as "sensitive, respectful, compassionate and having the hands and heart of a true healer."
BA. C-AP. C-IAYT, LMBT, e-RYT 500
Teacher: Uma Sawicki
Uma Thompson is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Pancha Karma Clinician and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula. She is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Yoga Instructor and Herbalist. She has been practicing holistic health care for almost two decades with deep passion to support wellness on an individual and planetary level. She and her husband Marek are Co-Directors of Living Alchemy, an integrative wellness practice dedicated to balanced health, through Ayurveda, herbal medicine, and bodywork. Additionally, Uma is currently a graduate student at Brenau University, in the Master of Occupation Therapy program, with plans to integrate holistic women's and children's health into the practice of Occupational Therapy. Uma is also a teacher in the Ayurvedic program at The Asheville School of Massage and Yoga, as well as a teacher at Yoga Veda Institute, an international, virtual Ayurvedic certification program.
Uma began her study in Ayurveda in 1998, when she completed a year long intensive at The Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda, in Boulder,CO. During the program Uma studied with many great teachers including Dr. John Douillard, Dr. Sarita Shrestha, Sarasvati Bhurman, Ysha Oakes, and Terra Rafael. During this study Uma specialized in women's health and became a certified Postpartum Ayurvedic Doula. In 2003, Uma spent a year abroad in India, studying Ayurveda at the source. Upon return, Uma graduated from The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M in 2007. where she studied under Dr. Vasant Lad. Uma also completed a private internship with Dr. Alakananda Ma of Alandi School of Ayurveda, in Boulder, CO in 2008.
Uma has been a massage therapist and yoga instructor since 1996, when she graduated from The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts and Rising Mountain Yoga in Santa, Fe, NM. In her bodywork practice Uma specializes in blending profound relaxation with deep tissue pain relief with Neuromuscular Therapy, Thai Massage, and Crainosacral therapy. Uma is also a skilled yoga therapist, offering personalized yoga therapy and yoga instruction, drawing from a rich background in Sivananda, Integral, Iyengar, Women's Yoga, and Ayuryoga.
Uma specialty is women's health. She helps women to naturally balance their hormones and honor their body rhythms for a smoother menstrual cycle. She also helps women to enhance their fertility for for a happy and healthy conception, pregnancy, and postpartum.
Uma believes that true health and wholeness comes from a connection with the natural world, she is also a wilderness guide, through Sacred Passage, in Crestone, CO. It is Uma's deeper intention to help reweave the web of planetary interconnection and wholeness with all of life.
Uma is married and lives in Weaverville, NC, just outside of Asheville, NC, she tends her garden and communes with the land. She is also the mother of two amazing, magical children.
Teacher: Kimberly Kubicke
Kimberly Kubicke is an Ayurvedic practitioner specializing in the gut microbiome and colon health. She is a writer and editor for the My Personal Body Book, and manages Joyful Belly's Balance Your Diet in a Week online e-Course. She also teaches in Joyful Belly's Mastering Ayurvedic Digestion & Nutrition: 500 Certification Course. Kimberly completed her Ayurvedic training with Dr. Vasant Lad. She also studied Ayurvedic Nutrition with Amadea Morningstar and hormonal health with Dr. Claudia Welch. She is a certified yoga teacher and student of Rod Stryker's Parayoga.
Kimberly began her career in Ayurveda after using Ayurveda to heal herself from lifelong sinus and digestive issues. Prior to this, she spent years working in social services and mental health, gaining insight into how best support people in helping themselves. Kimberly graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a double major in Sociology and Human Ecology.
What her client's are saying: "I initially met with Kimberly to receive dietary support during a very stressful time in my life. I was unsure at first what an Ayurvedic Consultant was and how she might help me, but within minutes of meeting with Kimberly I could feel her skill in understanding the many layers of what was happening in my life, combined with a profound lack of judgment, and I was instantly at ease. Over an 8-month period, Kimberly helped me to gradually and joyfully make some key dietary and lifestyle changes that greatly improved my health and well-being, changes which are still part of my life two years later! She has a knack for demystifying the ancient (yet still very applicable) science and art of Ayurveda, and taught me to make ghee (clarified butter) and kitchari (a nourishing dal), which have become weekly rituals that I very much enjoy. It is rare to meet someone with her combination of intuition, sensitivity, experience, and knowledge. I highly recommend working with Kimberly." -- Corva Rose, Former Client
Teacher: Natalie Immel
Natalie Immel received her 600 hour certification in Ayurveda at the Asheville School of Massage and Yoga, and received her 500 hour certification through the Master Ayurvedic Nutrition and Digestion Program at Joyful Belly Ayurveda. She specializes in cleansing and detoxification therapies, and is well versed in western nutrition. She earned her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies at Vassar College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors. Natalie used the principles of Ayurveda to heal from severe anorexia which at one time left her hospitalized. She now offers her insights to help other young women find freedom from eating disorders. Natalie is fluent in Swedish. She enjoys quilting, her prayer life, discovering new recipes and experimenting with health food.
Natalie's published works include Explore Your Hunger.