Browsing Department of Rhetoric, Writing and Communications by Issue Date
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“Trump” - What does the name signify?; or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture.
(Cultural Politics, 2018)This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and ... -
Avant-propos: Compagnons à la lisière de l'Islande
(Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)La récente publication de Wayward Heroes, traduite par Philip Roughton, constitue un événement marquant pour la littérature mondiale. Il s’agit de la première traduction directe de l’islandais à anglais du roman Gerpla de ... -
Foreword: Companions on the Edge of Iceland
(Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)The recent publication of Wayward Heroes, translated by Philip Roughton, marks a significant event for world literature, the first direct translation from Icelandic to English of Halldór Laxness’s masterpiece novel Gerpla. ... -
The Apostle of Reason: Hegel & The Desire for Emancipation in the 21st Century
(CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory, 2019-09-18)This article critically engages Todd McGowan's book, Emancipation After Hegel. Through McGowan's book, the author offers a Marxist-Hegelian interpretation of universal emancipation elaborated through a Lacanian psychoanalytic ... -
Translanguaging and trans-semiotizing for critical Integration of content and language in plurilingual educational settings
(Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) Regional Language Centre (RELC), 2022)Arising in Europe in the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves a dual focus on content and language learning with an additional language used ... -
Freedom and Alienation; Or, Humanism of the Non-All
(2022)Today, the popular concept of the Anthropocene, used to denote the human geological age, puts to question the centrality of human subjectivity as an ethical agency. Critical posthumanism, in this context, demands the ... -
From Posthumanist Anaesthetics to Promethean Dialectics: Further Considerations on the Category of the Hysterical Sublime
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-04-25)This essay proposes a critique of posthumanist critical theory through the development of the category of the hysterical sublime, a concept first introduced by Fredric Jameson in his early writings on postmodernism. While ...