Laurent Milesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurent Milesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurent |
| FAMILY NAME | Milesi |
| SIGNATURE | MILESI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2922-5150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mes sorcières bien/mal aimées. Étude de wiccaphilie comparée chez Chloé Delaume et Hélène Cixous
Lastness
Blanchot's writings evince a recurrent preoccupation with figures of lastness, such as the last man or the last writer. However, within his adaptation of Nietzsche's Eternal Return, ‘lastness’ not only calls up (what may or may not come after) death and extinction but is indissociable from an ‘always already’ joining first and last, originariness (the ‘first man’) and destination (the ‘ends of man’). The essay will first clarify Blanchot's rework…
Cuts and Tricks
Derrida’s ‘Le facteur de la vérité’ in The Post Card is memorable for being the philosopher’s most systematic dissection and critique of Lacan’s appropriation and allegorization of literature – in this case Edgar Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ in his inaugural ‘Seminar’ (1956) – to reveal the ‘Truth’ and meaning of psychoanalysis in his ‘return to Freud’. However, the essay’s serious agenda does not preclude a more playful undercurrent, not unusual…
Introduction
This is the Introduction to the issue: What Remains Today – Jacques Derrida
Beckett in the Posthuman Technocene
Beckett in the Posthuman Technocene Laurent Milesi and Arleen Ionescu Beckett in the Posthuman Technocene: Jonathan Boulter, Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. viii + 222 pp.); Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon, eds. Beckett and Technology ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. xvi + 269 pp.) Allow us to begin by recalling a private conversation one of the reviewers had…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
A Tale of Two Theories
The birthplace of narratology is inextricably linked to France,1 with initial forays into what became one of structuralism’s disciplinary cornerstones stretching as far back as 1946 and Jean Pouillon’s distinction between “the interior” or “psychic life” (le dedans, la vie psychique) and “the outside” or “the behavior of the individual” (le dehors, la conduite de l’individu) in novels. Among the landmarks in the field stands volume 8 of Communica…
Enacting Postmemory in Hélène Cixous’s ‘Jewish Family Romance’
On 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics
This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemnation of Russian culture in general is justified or not in the aftermath of the Russian aggression ag…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
Mind Games
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaurent MilesiLaurent Milesi is Tenured Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on James Joyce and modernism, 20th-century (American) poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (especially on Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cix…
Gaming (with) Affect and Trauma
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaurent MilesiLaurent Milesi is Tenured Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on James Joyce and modernism, 20th-century (American) poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (especially on Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cix…
Re-Membering – A Plea for Togetherness
Starting with a recall of the overwhelming feeling, voiced by many thinkers, that the post-WWII era brought about the ‘sense of an ending’ of history as Mitsein (being-in-common), the essay explores the renewed necessity to re-learn to be together in the wake of the worst modern pandemic by appealing to Jean-Luc Nancy’s imagination of a community without community. Nancy’s plea for a singular togetherness will be re-examined in relation to his vi…
B Effects
Starting from Nicholas Zurbrugg's dismissal of the negative 'B-Effect' in postmodernism, which he associates with 'Benjamin, Brecht, Beckett, Barthes, Baudrillard, and Bourdieu', this essay examines the common rationale behind convergent affirmations of a neutrality or minimalism, often mistaken for nihilism, at key junctures in the works of Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes, adding Maurice Blanchot as a critical link. The argument unfolds along …
Zo(o)graphies
The essay puts to the test Darwinian evolutionist theories, especially the key concepts of adaptation, natural selection and survival of the fittest, in the reading of several plots and fictions (some of them Ark-related animal fictions) concerned with evolution, trauma, adaptability, mimicry/mimesis and survival: Julian Barnes’s Flaubert Parrot and A History of the World in 101⁄2 Chapters, Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage, Robert Kroet…
Freud's Uncanny in the Posthuman Valley
Thinking Out of Sight
De-monstrating Monsters
Monster and demonstration: can there be at face value, despite an unmistakable ring of phonetic proximity, a more antagonistic couple than these two, the former signifying abnormality and excess, t
Chinoiseries
Derrida's treatment of Chinese script as essentially non-phonetic in Of Grammatology has been a recurrent leitmotif among several sinologists and scholars of Chinese origin, particularly in Rey Chow's famous 2001 essay ‘How (the) Inscrutable Chinese Led to Globalized Theory’. Despite forceful refutations of this misconception, the accusation of a fantasizing ‘ethnocentrism thinking itself as anti-ethnocentrism’ has endured and could still be foun…
Fo(u)nts of etymology
The essay explores the dense etymological nexus that structures Jacques Derrida’s critical examination of religion in ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, with specific attention to the themes and motifs of abstraction versus subtraction, absolution, ‘flection’ (and other words related to prayer, such as ‘inclination’) and reflection, fount, or source, and font. In a final section, it assesses the cr…
Séance Tenante
'To Be to Be Tool'
'to Be to Be tool' Arthur Bradley, Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 216pp; £50 hardbackDeceptively reduced to a trajectory 'from Marx to Derrida' in its subtitle, Arthur Bradley's timely study offers a self-styled 'critical genealogy of Derrida's theory of originary technicity' (p3), which he minimally defines as 'the empirico-transcendental condition of life itself ' (p14). Th…
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Cixanalyses - Towards a Reading of Anankè
The first in-depth engagement with and close reading of Anankè, this essay focuses on how Cixous's novel plays with and rewrites psychoanalytic concepts and practices. The critical elaboration of her own 'cixanalysis' in this fiction-as-becoming and journey, which reinvents psychoanalysis as it gives free creative rein to woman's desire instead of pathologizing it, unfolds in six related studies: on 'conduct' (about autonomy, automobile and behav…
Towards a Cryptanalysis
Enacting Postmemory in Hélène Cixous’s ‘Jewish Family Romance’
De-monstrating Monsters
Monster and demonstration: can there be at face value, despite an unmistakable ring of phonetic proximity, a more antagonistic couple than these two, the former signifying abnormality and excess, t
Figuring out Ashbery
Cette étude montre en quoi « The Skaters » de John Ashbery se tient aux marges de traditions « chorégraphiques » en poésie par les variations ou « distances » de ses figures de patinage. Exemple d'ode ironique ou parodie postmoderne, « The Skaters » offre un collage sur la littérature comme voyage (ininterrompu mettant en abyme jusqu'au montage même ; son écriture « pyrotechnique » (dé)vide ses figures dans un acte de « défiguration » qui met en …
Saint-Je Derrida
In the interview with Derek Attridge on 'This Strange Institution Called Literature' Derrida muses over the narcissistic' moment of his adolescent desire to write and seek a place from which the history of the frontier between philosophy and literature could be thought anew.Autobiography is suggested as the 'least adequate' term for the attempt to remember this obscure yet compulsive desire or 'dream of keeping a trace of all the voices which wer…
Saint-Je Derrida
Towards a Cryptanalysis
'To Be to Be Tool'
'to Be to Be tool' Arthur Bradley, Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 216pp; £50 hardbackDeceptively reduced to a trajectory 'from Marx to Derrida' in its subtitle, Arthur Bradley's timely study offers a self-styled 'critical genealogy of Derrida's theory of originary technicity' (p3), which he minimally defines as 'the empirico-transcendental condition of life itself ' (p14). Th…
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
Cixanalyses - Towards a Reading of Anankè
The first in-depth engagement with and close reading of Anankè, this essay focuses on how Cixous's novel plays with and rewrites psychoanalytic concepts and practices. The critical elaboration of her own 'cixanalysis' in this fiction-as-becoming and journey, which reinvents psychoanalysis as it gives free creative rein to woman's desire instead of pathologizing it, unfolds in six related studies: on 'conduct' (about autonomy, automobile and behav…
Séance Tenante
Chinoiseries
Derrida's treatment of Chinese script as essentially non-phonetic in Of Grammatology has been a recurrent leitmotif among several sinologists and scholars of Chinese origin, particularly in Rey Chow's famous 2001 essay ‘How (the) Inscrutable Chinese Led to Globalized Theory’. Despite forceful refutations of this misconception, the accusation of a fantasizing ‘ethnocentrism thinking itself as anti-ethnocentrism’ has endured and could still be foun…
Fo(u)nts of etymology
The essay explores the dense etymological nexus that structures Jacques Derrida’s critical examination of religion in ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, with specific attention to the themes and motifs of abstraction versus subtraction, absolution, ‘flection’ (and other words related to prayer, such as ‘inclination’) and reflection, fount, or source, and font. In a final section, it assesses the cr…
De-monstrating Monsters
Monster and demonstration: can there be at face value, despite an unmistakable ring of phonetic proximity, a more antagonistic couple than these two, the former signifying abnormality and excess, t
Freud's Uncanny in the Posthuman Valley
Thinking Out of Sight
Zo(o)graphies
The essay puts to the test Darwinian evolutionist theories, especially the key concepts of adaptation, natural selection and survival of the fittest, in the reading of several plots and fictions (some of them Ark-related animal fictions) concerned with evolution, trauma, adaptability, mimicry/mimesis and survival: Julian Barnes’s Flaubert Parrot and A History of the World in 101⁄2 Chapters, Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage, Robert Kroet…
On 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics
This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemnation of Russian culture in general is justified or not in the aftermath of the Russian aggression ag…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
Mind Games
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaurent MilesiLaurent Milesi is Tenured Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on James Joyce and modernism, 20th-century (American) poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (especially on Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cix…
Gaming (with) Affect and Trauma
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaurent MilesiLaurent Milesi is Tenured Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on James Joyce and modernism, 20th-century (American) poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (especially on Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cix…
Re-Membering – A Plea for Togetherness
Starting with a recall of the overwhelming feeling, voiced by many thinkers, that the post-WWII era brought about the ‘sense of an ending’ of history as Mitsein (being-in-common), the essay explores the renewed necessity to re-learn to be together in the wake of the worst modern pandemic by appealing to Jean-Luc Nancy’s imagination of a community without community. Nancy’s plea for a singular togetherness will be re-examined in relation to his vi…
B Effects
Starting from Nicholas Zurbrugg's dismissal of the negative 'B-Effect' in postmodernism, which he associates with 'Benjamin, Brecht, Beckett, Barthes, Baudrillard, and Bourdieu', this essay examines the common rationale behind convergent affirmations of a neutrality or minimalism, often mistaken for nihilism, at key junctures in the works of Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes, adding Maurice Blanchot as a critical link. The argument unfolds along …
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
A Tale of Two Theories
The birthplace of narratology is inextricably linked to France,1 with initial forays into what became one of structuralism’s disciplinary cornerstones stretching as far back as 1946 and Jean Pouillon’s distinction between “the interior” or “psychic life” (le dedans, la vie psychique) and “the outside” or “the behavior of the individual” (le dehors, la conduite de l’individu) in novels. Among the landmarks in the field stands volume 8 of Communica…
Enacting Postmemory in Hélène Cixous’s ‘Jewish Family Romance’
Cuts and Tricks
Derrida’s ‘Le facteur de la vérité’ in The Post Card is memorable for being the philosopher’s most systematic dissection and critique of Lacan’s appropriation and allegorization of literature – in this case Edgar Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ in his inaugural ‘Seminar’ (1956) – to reveal the ‘Truth’ and meaning of psychoanalysis in his ‘return to Freud’. However, the essay’s serious agenda does not preclude a more playful undercurrent, not unusual…
Introduction
This is the Introduction to the issue: What Remains Today – Jacques Derrida
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