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Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb. Derrida Today, 12(1), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2019.0197

In the essay ‘To Speculate – On “Freud’”, which is published in The Postcards: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (1980) and draws upon the last part of his unedited lecture course on La Vie la mort (taught in 1975), Jacques Derrida engages a close re... Read More about Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb.

Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context: An Insider Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Yusupova, G. (2019). Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context: An Insider Perspective. Social Science Quarterly, 100(4), 1459-1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12642

The article identifies three main challenges in doing ethnography in illiberal settings. First, the imposition of oblique political limitations on the research agenda of local researchers creates a form of methodological nationalism, leading to a pau... Read More about Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context: An Insider Perspective.

Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un’antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk (2019)
Journal Article
Pavanini, M. (2019). Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un’antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk. Kaiak, 6, 1-19

This paper aims to inquiry the relationship between, on the one hand, the phenomenon of addiction; on the other, the use of psychotropic substances. This inquiry is carried out following Peter Sloterdijk’s (Karlsruhe, 1947) analysis concerning a medi... Read More about Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un’antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk.

Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life. Postmodern Culture, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2018.0024

This article tests the hypothesis that the history of life can be told only by assuming the ultra-transcendental conception of life as leaving a trace in the world. It draws together two moments in the work of Jacques Derrida that are chronologically... Read More about Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life.

Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism: Margarete Susman’s Theodicy (2019)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2019). Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism: Margarete Susman’s Theodicy. Religions, 10(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020103

This article unpacks Margarete Susman’s political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as... Read More about Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism: Margarete Susman’s Theodicy.

From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic (2019)
Journal Article
Oloff, K. (2019). From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic. Atlantic Studies, 16(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1410760

Significant changes occurred from the 1870s onwards, which laid the foundations for today's highly uneven, globalized world-food-system. It is in this context that Dominican and Dominican-American literary aesthetics are particularly revealing, as th... Read More about From the novela de la caña to Junot Díaz's 'cake-eater': World-Literature, the World Food System and the Dominican Republic.

Measuring the difficulty of text translation: The combination of text-focused and translator-oriented approaches (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Zheng, B., & Zhou, H. (2019). Measuring the difficulty of text translation: The combination of text-focused and translator-oriented approaches. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 31(1), 125-149. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.18036.zhe

This paper explores the impact of text complexity on translators’ subjective perception of translation difficulty and on their cognitive load. Twenty-six MA translation students from a UK university were asked to translate three English texts with di... Read More about Measuring the difficulty of text translation: The combination of text-focused and translator-oriented approaches.

Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism. Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, 63(1), 175-194. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2019611261

This article explores the hypothesis formulated by Derrida in his early work that structuralism is Aristotelian in foundation. To this end, it traces Derrida’s engagement with Aristotle’s Physics between the seminal essays “Force and Signification” (... Read More about Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism.