exemplarity

You can love it for its exemplarity, for being the "ultimate" disco floor filler or schmaltzy mother song.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

You can love it for its exemplarity, for being the "ultimate" disco floor filler or schmaltzy mother song.

Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste 2009

Address to the world of culture, Paris, 12 September 2008, I desired to highlight the exemplarity of monastic life in history, stressing that its aim is at the same time both simple and essential: "quaerere Deum," to seek God and to seek him through Jesus Christ who has revealed him cf.

The New Beginning papabear 2008

We have already seen Equiano buying slaves, but here we find him overcome with the master's desire to beat the subaltern not simply for reasons of exemplarity, but for reasons directly related to maintaining the easy flow of commodities between the settlers and the neighbouring native populations.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Address to the world of culture, Paris, 12 September 2008, I desired to highlight the exemplarity of monastic life in history, stressing that its aim is at the same time both simple and essential: "quaerere Deum," to seek God and to seek him through Jesus Christ who has revealed him cf.

Archive 2008-11-23 papabear 2008

This implies a certain cancellation of his private experience in the service of a generalizable exemplarity.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

One of the primary objectives of the Calcutta celebration is to crystallize this counter-exemplarity in the very space where previous observers, including

Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

Equiano asserts explicitly, in a remarkably distant voice, that he finds none of the native dancers desirable, and then seems to evaporate at precisely the moment that Dr. Irving, in a gesture of exemplarity, enters the realm of sexual exchange.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

For related discussions of the complex substitutions which mediate between the production of affect and political action see Ann Cvetkovich's compelling readings of the problem of exemplarity in AIDS activism and in Marx's novelistic gestures in Capital in Mixed Feelings:

Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006

+ The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007