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diacritics
a review

of contemporary

CONTEMPORARY

criticism

ITALIAN

THOUGHT

(1)

fall 2009
volume

39

number

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Staff
EDITOR
Laurent

Dubreuil

BOARD
EDITORIAL
Gerard Aching
Karen

Benezra

Bruno

Bosteels

Cary Howie
Patricia Keller
Richard

Cornell
Diacritics
lems

is concerned

of criticism.

formal

policy

tions

from

does

or critical

they invite

explored;

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quarters.

not imply

advocacy

no

adopted

choice

This

to be

and

contribu

of critical

and

encounter
in relation

position

setting

to them.

eclecticism;

forth

a critical

Review

articles,

ADVISORY

BOARD
Dominick

LaCapra
Philip E. Lewis
Alberto Moreiras

Emily Apter
Marina Scordilis
Brownlee
Susan Buck-Morss
Tom

stance

pluralistic

diacritical discussion entails distinguishing the

methodological and ideological issues which
critics

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Gil Anidjar

of books

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Monroe

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Pedro Erber
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Peter Gilgen

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Timothy Campbell
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Gerald

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Roberto Gonzalez
Neil Hertz
Fredric Jameson

Prince

Joan Ramon Resina

Hortense
Spillers
Geoff Waite

Conley
Echevarrfa

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Zizek

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CONTENTS

/ fall 2009

Contemporary Italian Thought (1)

Special editors: Timothy Campbell,

Sergia Adamo, Lorenzo Fabbri

TEXTS / CONTEXTS

Timothy Campbell

Introduction

Claire Fontaine

Toward an Imageless Political

Education

Antonio Negri

21

An Italian Rupture: Production against

Development

Franco Berardi

Kevin Attell

29

Reassessing Italian Modernization:

Social Autonomy in the Age of
Exhaustion

35

Potentiality, Actuality, Constituent

Power

Roberto Fsposito

55

The Return of Italian Philosophy

Karen Pinkus

63

Dematerialization: From Arte

Povera

to Cybermoney

Italian

through

Thought
Lorenzo

Fabbri

77

Chronotopologies
Agamben

and

of the Exception:
Derrida

before

the

Camps

POLEMICS
Brian Boyd
Responding

to Laurent

97

On Contra-Evidential Criticism

Dubreuil,

"On Experimental Criticism"

IMAGES
Davide Bertocchi

Selected Work, 1999-2012

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CALLS

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sciences, we seek to underscore the specificity of literary, critical, and philosophical
thought

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Thinking with the Sciences

We believe it is now time for scholars in the humanities and the literary disciplines to
think with the sciences (and not against, or instead of them). Our title also suggests that
epistemology is necessary but not sufficient; and that the promotion of an ancillary use of
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