Mario Telo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1182147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario Telo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | Telo |
| SIGNATURE | TELO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0535-5321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Poor or Pure Form
The tent, the shelter of pro-Palestine protests on American campuses in the spring of 2024 and of global metropolitan marginality, is an infrastructure of the unthought, constantly under the joint attack of capital and common sense. This essay attempts to welcome the tent’s interpellation to think and experience the unthought, specifically the informe, issued every time a home-dwelling observer encounters it. For hierarchical discourses, the tent…
(Dis)enchanted Elementalities
“Elemental” thinking is one way of approaching the relationship between human beings and their ecological surroundings. It is increasingly the only way to experience, if not fully comprehend, this relationship. Having passed through the enlightened disenchantment of nature, whereby nature was brought into a scientific regime of knowledge, with science representing humankind’s intellectual and technical mastery of its perimeters, we are currently …
Dylanologies of Extinction
In this essay, I reflect on the nexus of elementality and civilizational collapse by juxtaposing two imaginaries of extinction that seem at first very distant from each other—the biblical messianism of Bob Dylan’s songs and the archival impulse of the surviving Mycenaean tablets written in Linear B. The dialogue that I stage between them takes inspiration from an experiment in contemporary art that binds together these disparate textual corpuses.…
Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey
In this analysis of Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey, Oedipality becomes “philological” and “queer” because it confronts the reader with an Oedipus unable to become Oedipal. The lack of a “straight” Oedipus—a fully Oedipal Oedipus—becomes a philological crux, which, as I argue, is provoked by and, in turn, calls for over-analysis and over-sensitive reading—disavowed philological remedies against a “deviation” from the norm. This play’s dramaturgical …
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times
What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, PrometheusBound, and TrojanWomen, our …
Medea/Media: A glitchy counterfactual
James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from L…
Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy
This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides’ plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theo…
Joe Biden et l’Union européenne: Un Bilan Mitigé
Des attentes trop élevées ? Après quatre années de frustrations et d’humiliations de la part du président Donald Trump, les leaders européens (et leurs opinions publiques) ont connu quelques semaines d’enthousiasme suite à la victoire de Joe Biden. Non seulement celui-ci semblait avoir arrêté net le chef de file des populistes occidentaux et promettait une relance de la collaboration transatlantique mais il disposait aussi d’un « dream staff » co…
Proximities
U D I T H BUTLER I S to read in community, joining what are now generations of readers around the world.It is to court the experience of disorientation, exhilaration, alienation, or uncanny recognition that entering (however incompletely) into the thought of another variously affords.To read Butler is also to read Butler reading and thus to encounter both the example and the challenge of reading well.In creating this special issue, we invited a n…
Controversial Developments of EU–China Relations: Main Drivers and Geopolitical Implications of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments
SCOPUS: re.j
Regionalism and Multilateralism: Politics, Economics, Culture
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Anne Carson: I've never understood catharsis. Simon Critchley: It's that old idea that there should be some moral lesson that we get from tragedy, which is still an omnipresent view. But it's ludicrous
Building a Common Language in Pluralist International Relations Theories
This article aims to contribute to the gradual building of a common scientific language within the world International Relations (IR) epistemic community. The author shares the objective, indicated by many leading Chinese scholars, of a pluralist IR theory that goes beyond Western-centric mainstream theories to provide a European continental perspective. Such a perspective takes stock, on the one hand, of the legacy of Gramsci, Bobbio, and Haberm…
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation
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Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax
This chapter argues that affect, conceived as a circulation of bodily intensities between subject and object, can help us rematerialize the notion of genre in the study of archaic Greek lyric. Iambos constitutes a privileged case study, as it aligns its own slippery poetic stance with sadomasochistic thrills, a shattering of corporeality, which, in pushing the limits of feeling, places it at the core of generic discourse. The readings explore wha…
Cultures Nationalism and Populism
The past and present of Europe’s intercultural dialogue
This chapter presents the several historical cases, showing both the promise and the limits of the Europeans&s; successive interactions and dialogues with other civilizations. Over the course of its long history, the European theory and practice of intercultural dialogue with other civilizations has developed along many paths, and displayed numerous forms and degrees of effectiveness. European civilization, including the process of modernization …
Reperformance, Exile, and Archive Feelings: Rereading Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
Les BRICS et la coopération régionale entre États voisins
SCOPUS: ar.j
Regionalism in Hard Times: Competitive and Post-Liberal Trends in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
European Union and New Regionalism
European Union and New Regionalism: Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era
Regionalism in Hard Times: Competitive and Post-Liberal Trends in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
The EU from a constitutional project to a process of constitutionalization
Taking a longue durée approach to EU political legitimacy, the paper examines three successive constitutional models of European integration: the transnational political movement for a democratic federal constitution; the ‘constitutional moment’ of 2001–2005; and the European de facto constitutionalization through progressive treaty revision. The attempt to draft a Constitution for Europe showed the limits of supranational democracy in that it ma…
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals
On the Sauce: Cratinus, Cyclopean Poetics, and the Roiling Sea of Epic
This paper suggests that in the play Odysseis , Cratinus turns Polyphemus into a figure of the Archilochean satirist and thus into an icon of his comic mode. The extant fragments of the play present a web of interlocking marine and culinary images rich in self-reflexive meaning. The intertextual analysis of these images—both at the level of metaphor and phonic materialità —reveals that Cratinus appropriates Polyphemus’s sublime abjection to depic…
Italy's interaction with the European project, from the First to the Second Republic: Continuity and change
Controversial Developments of EU–China Relations: Main Drivers and Geopolitical Implications of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments
SCOPUS: re.j
The Eagle's Gaze in the Opening of Heliodorus' Aethiopica
This article argues that in the opening of the Aethiopica Heliodorus' refashioning of the epic tradition is assimilated to Odysseus' predatory survey of the suitors' corpses in Book 22 of the Odyssey . The initial scene of the novel reenacts an Odyssean simile that compares the suitors' bodies to dead fish on a beach. Heliodorus' intricate reconfiguration of this Homeric tableau results in his self-reflexive theorizing of ecphrastic visuality and…
Medea/Media: A glitchy counterfactual
James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from L…
Political system, civil society and institutions in Italy: The quality of democracy
The SPD: Between Europe and Modell Deutschland
To what extent has German social-democracy internalized the need to unify Western Europe? The Münster Congress held at the end of August 1988 did not directly confront this issue, although Hans Jochen Vogel's, Horst Ehmke's and Willy Brandt's speeches all reiterated a Europeist perspective long since supported by the party. Of course, there were other important issues to discuss, and there will be a convention specifically dedicated to the Europe…
Le New Deal europeen. La pensee et la politique sociales-democrates face a la crise des annees trente
Text and Stage-Action in E. Hf 1218
The EU as an incipient civilian power: A systemic approach
Cet article cherche à comprendre et à conceptualiser le rôle régional et global de l'UE ainsi que son identité internationale. Il s’intéresse aux contributions concrètes de l'Union à la gouvernance globale et aux implications empiriques de la notion de puissance civile. Différents scénarios sont développés concernant l'effet de l'évolution du système mondial sur le rôle extérieur de l'UE
International relations: A European perspective
The Eagle's Gaze in the Opening of Heliodorus' Aethiopica
This article argues that in the opening of the Aethiopica Heliodorus' refashioning of the epic tradition is assimilated to Odysseus' predatory survey of the suitors' corpses in Book 22 of the Odyssey . The initial scene of the novel reenacts an Odyssean simile that compares the suitors' bodies to dead fish on a beach. Heliodorus' intricate reconfiguration of this Homeric tableau results in his self-reflexive theorizing of ecphrastic visuality and…
Epic,nostosandgeneric genealogy inAristophanes’Peace
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of litera…
Italy's interaction with the European project, from the First to the Second Republic: Continuity and change
Political system, civil society and institutions in Italy: The quality of democracy
Aristophanes vs Typhon: Co(s)mic Rivalry, Voice and Temporality in Knights
Recent studies have analysed the essential role of interpoetic rivalry in Aristophanes' comic imagination. Zachary Biles has shown that ‘festival agonistics provide an underlying logic for the overall thematic design of individual plays’ and that ‘the plays can be treated as creative responses to the competitions.’ Aristophanes' dramatisation of comic competition has been viewed as a reflection of the struggles of political factions in late-fifth…
On the Sauce: Cratinus, Cyclopean Poetics, and the Roiling Sea of Epic
This paper suggests that in the play Odysseis , Cratinus turns Polyphemus into a figure of the Archilochean satirist and thus into an icon of his comic mode. The extant fragments of the play present a web of interlocking marine and culinary images rich in self-reflexive meaning. The intertextual analysis of these images—both at the level of metaphor and phonic materialità —reveals that Cratinus appropriates Polyphemus’s sublime abjection to depic…
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals
Regionalism in Hard Times: Competitive and Post-Liberal Trends in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
European Union and New Regionalism
European Union and New Regionalism: Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era
Regionalism in Hard Times: Competitive and Post-Liberal Trends in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
The EU from a constitutional project to a process of constitutionalization
Taking a longue durée approach to EU political legitimacy, the paper examines three successive constitutional models of European integration: the transnational political movement for a democratic federal constitution; the ‘constitutional moment’ of 2001–2005; and the European de facto constitutionalization through progressive treaty revision. The attempt to draft a Constitution for Europe showed the limits of supranational democracy in that it ma…
Reperformance, Exile, and Archive Feelings: Rereading Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
Les BRICS et la coopération régionale entre États voisins
SCOPUS: ar.j
The past and present of Europe’s intercultural dialogue
This chapter presents the several historical cases, showing both the promise and the limits of the Europeans&s; successive interactions and dialogues with other civilizations. Over the course of its long history, the European theory and practice of intercultural dialogue with other civilizations has developed along many paths, and displayed numerous forms and degrees of effectiveness. European civilization, including the process of modernization …
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax
This chapter argues that affect, conceived as a circulation of bodily intensities between subject and object, can help us rematerialize the notion of genre in the study of archaic Greek lyric. Iambos constitutes a privileged case study, as it aligns its own slippery poetic stance with sadomasochistic thrills, a shattering of corporeality, which, in pushing the limits of feeling, places it at the core of generic discourse. The readings explore wha…
Cultures Nationalism and Populism
Regionalism and Multilateralism: Politics, Economics, Culture
Art (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Literature (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)