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Prosthetic Speech

Prosthetic Speech 312 qui parle december 2017 vol. 26 no. 2 planetarity rather than a holistic cosmicity. The new geomancy pro- ceeds by the anxious parsing of a transformed but still-ritualized earthly space whose topography of purity and pollution has been rendered as literal and actual as it is portentous and symbolic, even as it escapes sensory capture. This uncanny earth draws us into a disenchanted, risky symbiosis. The new geomancy begins with the disenchantment of earth—not in the familiar Cartesian sense used to justify its relentless instrumentalization but in the fresh- ly poignant sense of loss of an imagined purity and shared language—in the damage wrought against an ancient idea of home. Nature’s speech persists; can we relearn to parse her mes- sages? Karen Jacobs Karen Jacobs is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her article “Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blan- chot, and the Logic of Invisibility” appeared in Qui Parle 4:1, 1990. “Qui parle” poses a translation problem. Is it a question? A question retracted? When the phrase made its first appearance in Samuel Beckett’s L’innommable, the author slyly omitted the question mark. “Je dois dire,” says Beckett’s unnamed voice, “quand je parle, Qui parle.” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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312 qui parle december 2017 vol. 26 no. 2 planetarity rather than a holistic cosmicity. The new geomancy pro- ceeds by the anxious parsing of a transformed but still-ritualized earthly space whose topography of purity and pollution has been rendered as literal and actual as it is portentous and symbolic, even as it escapes sensory capture. This uncanny earth draws us into a disenchanted, risky symbiosis. The new geomancy begins with the disenchantment of earth—not in the familiar Cartesian sense used to justify its relentless instrumentalization but in the fresh- ly poignant sense of loss of an imagined purity and shared language—in the damage wrought against an ancient idea of home. Nature’s speech persists; can we relearn to parse her mes- sages? Karen Jacobs Karen Jacobs is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her article “Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blan- chot, and the Logic of Invisibility” appeared in Qui Parle 4:1, 1990. “Qui parle” poses a translation problem. Is it a question? A question retracted? When the phrase made its first appearance in Samuel Beckett’s L’innommable, the author slyly omitted the question mark. “Je dois dire,” says Beckett’s unnamed voice, “quand je parle, Qui parle.”

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Apr 5, 2018

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