Jeff Fort
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Fort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Fort |
| SIGNATURE | FORT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critique du récit pur: Gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot's narratives
Maurice Blanchot’s itinerary as a critic and writer is marked by a transformation occurring around the beginning of WW2, when Blanchot abandoned right-wing political journalism to focus on literature. His criticism and narrative fictions from the 1940s elaborate the notion of a ‘pure novel’, inspired partly by Mallarmé, in response to historical conditions of the Occupation, in an assertion of literary sovereignty after bitter political defeat. B…
André Bazin's Eternal Returns: An Ontological Revision
The recent publication of André Bazin's Écrits complets (2018), an enormous two-volume edition of 3000 pages which increases ten-fold Bazin's available corpus, provides opportunities for renewed reflection on, and possibly for substantial revisions of, this key figure in film theory. On the basis of several essays, I propose a drastic rereading of Bazin's most explicitly philosophical notion of “ontology.” This all too familiar notion, long settl…
Paris Centrifuge: Cléo de 5 à 7 in Black and White, or: The Ills of Colonialism
Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) is a film that draws a circle around itself—or rather a number of overlapping circles. The story of a self-absorbed young woman whose narcissistic bubble is cracked open by the threat of death, and by a (nearly circular) journey through Paris, Cléo appears to move from the inside out, toward a greater world that both threatens mortal danger and promises, perhaps, a kind of redemption.2 Varda called the film a “s…
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography
The Banality of Heidegger
Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks . Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an analysis of the philosophical or “historial” anti-Semitism found in the Black Notebooks. He notes especially that this anti-Semitism is marked by the “banality” of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. He does this by linking Heidegger’s remarks to the…
L'Antichambre litt raire: Roland Barthes's Regressive Search
This essay shows that Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire, a work engaged in a revolt against the author's former critical positions, is overdetermined by a desire, announced contemporaneously in his seminars, to write a novel roughly modeled on the Proustian Search; that this Search, as echoed and pursued in this text, drastically distorts and narrows its treatment of photography; and that this restricted treatment of photography, centred on the …
Profanations
Rumors of the Outside: Blanchot’s Murmurs and the Indistinction of Literature
Blanchot often evoked the silence required for literary writing, a silence which he says must “be imposed” on a pre-existing and indistinct murmur of language. Likewise, he evokes this murmur itself as an originary ground of all speech, including literary speech. Less often recognized are the ways in which he also locates this murmur in the realm of public speech and everyday language, the rumor of speech spoken by no one and by everyone, a realm…
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger, as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled "The University…
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
In February of 1988, philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger, as Rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled “The Univers…
The Machine Is/In Us: Kelly Oliver's Derridean Ethics
Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire
Mourning Philology proposes a history of the 19th century national imagination as a reaction to the two main philological inventions of that century: “mythological religion” and the “native.” This history is illustrated with the case of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The book offers an account of the successive stages (archeological, self-ethnographic, and aesthetical) of the implementation of orientalist philology, through which the nation…
Only (a) Memory Can Save us Now? The Instant of Death in Chris Marker's La jetée and Maurice Blanchot's L'instant de ma mort
Sublime-infime-abîme
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. We follow him from the Chicago Democratic Convention (where he me…
The Pervigilivm Veneris and the Tiberiani Amnis in Quatrains
As is well known, this poem, which stood in the Anthologia Latina , is preserved in two MSS. only, the Salmasian (or S) and the Pithoean (or T ), Nos. 10318 and 8071 in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; ‘the handwriting dates’ the former ‘as written at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century; the other...is about two hundred years later in date. Modern scholars regard both MSS. as traceable to a common archetype, probably…
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
Profanations
Rumors of the Outside: Blanchot’s Murmurs and the Indistinction of Literature
Blanchot often evoked the silence required for literary writing, a silence which he says must “be imposed” on a pre-existing and indistinct murmur of language. Likewise, he evokes this murmur itself as an originary ground of all speech, including literary speech. Less often recognized are the ways in which he also locates this murmur in the realm of public speech and everyday language, the rumor of speech spoken by no one and by everyone, a realm…
The Pervigilivm Veneris and the Tiberiani Amnis in Quatrains
As is well known, this poem, which stood in the Anthologia Latina , is preserved in two MSS. only, the Salmasian (or S) and the Pithoean (or T ), Nos. 10318 and 8071 in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; ‘the handwriting dates’ the former ‘as written at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century; the other...is about two hundred years later in date. Modern scholars regard both MSS. as traceable to a common archetype, probably…
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. We follow him from the Chicago Democratic Convention (where he me…
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
This special issue of *Phoenix* explores the complex interplay of memory and forgetting in ancient Athens. Examining various literary and epigraphic sources, the contributors analyze how the Athenians constructed collective memory and dealt with traumatic events, particularly the Peloponnesian War and the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. The articles discuss the selective nature of remembrance, the role of ritual and public discourse in shaping memory…
Sublime-infime-abîme
Only (a) Memory Can Save us Now? The Instant of Death in Chris Marker's La jetée and Maurice Blanchot's L'instant de ma mort
Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire
Mourning Philology proposes a history of the 19th century national imagination as a reaction to the two main philological inventions of that century: “mythological religion” and the “native.” This history is illustrated with the case of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The book offers an account of the successive stages (archeological, self-ethnographic, and aesthetical) of the implementation of orientalist philology, through which the nation…
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger, as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled "The University…
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
In February of 1988, philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger, as Rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled “The Univers…
The Machine Is/In Us: Kelly Oliver's Derridean Ethics
Rumors of the Outside: Blanchot’s Murmurs and the Indistinction of Literature
Blanchot often evoked the silence required for literary writing, a silence which he says must “be imposed” on a pre-existing and indistinct murmur of language. Likewise, he evokes this murmur itself as an originary ground of all speech, including literary speech. Less often recognized are the ways in which he also locates this murmur in the realm of public speech and everyday language, the rumor of speech spoken by no one and by everyone, a realm…
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography
The Banality of Heidegger
Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks . Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an analysis of the philosophical or “historial” anti-Semitism found in the Black Notebooks. He notes especially that this anti-Semitism is marked by the “banality” of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. He does this by linking Heidegger’s remarks to the…
L'Antichambre litt raire: Roland Barthes's Regressive Search
This essay shows that Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire, a work engaged in a revolt against the author's former critical positions, is overdetermined by a desire, announced contemporaneously in his seminars, to write a novel roughly modeled on the Proustian Search; that this Search, as echoed and pursued in this text, drastically distorts and narrows its treatment of photography; and that this restricted treatment of photography, centred on the …
Profanations
André Bazin's Eternal Returns: An Ontological Revision
The recent publication of André Bazin's Écrits complets (2018), an enormous two-volume edition of 3000 pages which increases ten-fold Bazin's available corpus, provides opportunities for renewed reflection on, and possibly for substantial revisions of, this key figure in film theory. On the basis of several essays, I propose a drastic rereading of Bazin's most explicitly philosophical notion of “ontology.” This all too familiar notion, long settl…
Paris Centrifuge: Cléo de 5 à 7 in Black and White, or: The Ills of Colonialism
Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) is a film that draws a circle around itself—or rather a number of overlapping circles. The story of a self-absorbed young woman whose narcissistic bubble is cracked open by the threat of death, and by a (nearly circular) journey through Paris, Cléo appears to move from the inside out, toward a greater world that both threatens mortal danger and promises, perhaps, a kind of redemption.2 Varda called the film a “s…
Critique du récit pur: Gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot's narratives
Maurice Blanchot’s itinerary as a critic and writer is marked by a transformation occurring around the beginning of WW2, when Blanchot abandoned right-wing political journalism to focus on literature. His criticism and narrative fictions from the 1940s elaborate the notion of a ‘pure novel’, inspired partly by Mallarmé, in response to historical conditions of the Occupation, in an assertion of literary sovereignty after bitter political defeat. B…
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