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Through the study of the image of Barbie, the author thinks about the "feminine condition" through the writings of Giorgio Agamben and particularly his notions of singularity and community. She shows how, in a totalitarian fashion, the famous doll contributes to reproduce the idea of an anonymous objectified woman. She then turns away from this figure of alienation to reflect on the community of "girls without names" that comes to life in Josée Yvon s poetry. These female terrorists, wild and embodied, violently blow up the male fantasy of the doll.
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AbstractIn this essay, I discuss the relationship between photography, photographic technology, and memory in the final decades of the nineteenth century. I do so first in relation to the desire to possess actual material memories of the deceased, and then move to consider the way in which the photograph was often used as a metaphor for the processes of memory. I argue that apart from exceptional cases, this was, in fact, a false analogy. Taking Amy Levy's 1888 novel The Romance of a Shop as a text through which to examine both death-bed photography and the workings of memory, I explore the idea of the memory flashing back, suddenly, and link this to the developments that took place in flash photography at the time that Levy was researching her photographically-themed novel. The metaphor of the flash – and the flash-back – has proved of more lasting value in the semantic linking of photography and memory, I argue, than other attempts to link the materiality of the photographic process to the workings of the brain.
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Extension du domaine de la lutte (translated as Whatever) presents an anti-hero narrator who gradually falls into a depression, and comes to view the world he inhabits as increasingly strange. In a struggle to the finish with the human species, the protagonist tries to convince a colleague at work to commit murder before turning this violence against himself and ending up in a psychiatric institution. This article aims to review the notion of estrangement in light of the narrator's position, that of an observer-ethnologist who, despite his depressive state of mind, maintains the kind of hyper-acute vision and capacity for analysis that allows him to apprehend the world differently, while elucidating both a theory of economic and sexual liberalism and a poetic vision of reality informed by the experience of estrangement, as if depression opened the way to another field of consciousness, upsetting but crystal-clear, dark, yet salutary.