Author: Marc Redfield Publisher: Fordham University Press ISBN: 0823289087 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 115
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Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. The various phenomena we sum up as neoliberalism and globalization are unimaginable in the absence of shibboleth-technologies. In the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celan’s subtle yet fierce reorientation of shibboleth merits scrupulous reading. This book interprets the episode in Judges together with Celan’s poems and Jacques Derrida’s reading of them, as well as passages from William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Doris Salcedo’s 2007 installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern. Redfield pursues the track of shibboleth: a word to which no language can properly lay claim—a word that is both less and more than a word, that signifies both the epitome and the ruin of border control technology, and that thus, despite its violent role in the Biblical story, offers a locus of poetico-political affirmation.
Author: John Hornor Jacobs Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ® ISBN: 1467739979 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 433
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"There are certain shibboleths to our condition." At the end of the first book of The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy, Jack and Shreve are incarcerado―physically locked up. Shreve's back in the custody of the state of Arkansas, and Jack's somewhere in the clutches of Mr. Quincrux―both problems Shreve aims to rectify. Cages might hold Shreve's body, but the power that's been growing since his encounter with Quincrux has reached a pinnacle. Nothing can prevent his mind from scaling the etheric heights. Freed from his body, Shreve discovers the magnitude of the evil that's stirring in the east. The wave of insomnia that's paralyzed the nation is only the beginning.
Author: Alex Paul M D Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 60
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Shibboleth Diet into a simple to understand and easy to follow weight loss and healthy eating plan that anyone can use to lose additional body weight and improve their overall health and wellness.Inside her weight loss guide, Emma will teach you about the following aspects of the Shibboleth Diet: What the Shibboleth Diet is.Major Health Benefits of Following the Shibboleth Diet.The 7 Food Classifications of the Shibboleth Diet.What Foods Should be Eaten when Following the Shibboleth Diet.What Foods Should be Avoided or Minimized on the Shibboleth Diet.How Exercise can Increase Weight Loss with the Shibboleth Diet.Lifestyle Benefits of Losing Weight on the Shibboleth Diet