Joseph Mai
Biographic Data
| ID | 763560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Mai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Mai |
| SIGNATURE | MAI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1461-2499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interwoven Voices
Ordinary ghosts
This essay considers Julien Cernobori’s “podcast fleuve,” Cerno, une anti-enquête, as a creative alternative to mainstream media practices. It draws first from Yves Citton’s analysis of critical media theory and its use of the lexicon of spectrality to figure derealization, passivity, and manipulation. A documentary reworking of an infamous series of murders committed by Thierry Paulin in the 1980s, Cerno is haunted by ghosts familiar to the Fren…
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism
Reviewed by: Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Fran-cophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis by Martin O’Shaughnessy Joseph Mai O’Shaughnessy, Martin. Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Fran-cophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 224pp. Martin O’Shaughnessy has devoted a career to scouring the intersections of politics, identity, and contemporary French cinema, perhaps most notably in his 2007 book, The…
Realizing impossibilities
It is common in epistemic modal logic to model the epistemic states of agents via box operators in the normal logic S5. However, this approach treats agents as logically omniscient by requiring their knowledge to be closed under classical logical consequence. A promising way of avoiding logical omniscience consists in extending epistemic models with impossible states, that is states, where complex formulas are not evaluated recursively. However, …
Un tissu de mots
In Que font les rennes après Noël ? Olivia Rosenthal splices an intimate autobiographical narrative together with various, at first seemingly unrelated, texts about animals. This essay explores ways in which her formal experiment unsettles conventional (anthropocentric and patriarchal) discourses and practices that have traditionally shaped the border between humans and animals. It considers some of the ethical and aesthetic implications of this …
The Ideal of Ararat
Georges Perec, or the Spirit of Beginnings
Georges Perec, or the Spirit of Beginnings
The Ideal of Ararat
Un tissu de mots
In Que font les rennes après Noël ? Olivia Rosenthal splices an intimate autobiographical narrative together with various, at first seemingly unrelated, texts about animals. This essay explores ways in which her formal experiment unsettles conventional (anthropocentric and patriarchal) discourses and practices that have traditionally shaped the border between humans and animals. It considers some of the ethical and aesthetic implications of this …
Ordinary ghosts
This essay considers Julien Cernobori’s “podcast fleuve,” Cerno, une anti-enquête, as a creative alternative to mainstream media practices. It draws first from Yves Citton’s analysis of critical media theory and its use of the lexicon of spectrality to figure derealization, passivity, and manipulation. A documentary reworking of an infamous series of murders committed by Thierry Paulin in the 1980s, Cerno is haunted by ghosts familiar to the Fren…
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism
Reviewed by: Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Fran-cophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis by Martin O’Shaughnessy Joseph Mai O’Shaughnessy, Martin. Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Fran-cophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 224pp. Martin O’Shaughnessy has devoted a career to scouring the intersections of politics, identity, and contemporary French cinema, perhaps most notably in his 2007 book, The…
Realizing impossibilities
It is common in epistemic modal logic to model the epistemic states of agents via box operators in the normal logic S5. However, this approach treats agents as logically omniscient by requiring their knowledge to be closed under classical logical consequence. A promising way of avoiding logical omniscience consists in extending epistemic models with impossible states, that is states, where complex formulas are not evaluated recursively. However, …
Interwoven Voices
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)