September 2016
The “September 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 1, 2016.
Critics Page
NEW FRENCH THEORY
Not New, Not French, Not Theory– By Donatien GrauLike an Atmosphere:
Philosophy as a Climate of Knowledge– By Emanuele CocciaWhat I Am Working On
– By Camille de ToledoFragile, Necessary History
– By Patrick BoucheronThe Submersion of Personal Memory
– By Maël RenouardThe Academy in Peril
– By Mehdi Belhaj KacemAgainst Theory
– By Barbara CarnevaliDeconstructing the Philosophical Resistance to Biology
– By Catherine MalabouIn the Prison of the Open World:
Breach of Negative Dialectics– By Agnès GayraudLaid Out Flat:
Of Maps, Being Run Over, and Virtual Reality– By Nora PhilippeHere and Elsewhere
– By Mathieu Potte-BonnevilleThe Community of Lovers
– By Olivier Zahmto Phong Bui
Between Skin and Paper– By Joachim PissarroTwelve Rules to Orient Thought
– By Tristan Garcia
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
The Keeper
– By Jason RosenfeldWomen of Abstract Expressionism
– By Margaret GrahamJUST TRYING TO FIT IN
DENNIS OPPENHEIM Terrestrial Studio– By William CorwinLOVE HAPPENS HERE
Art AIDS America– By Ingrid DudekCHUNG SANG-HWA
– By Jonathan GoodmanPETER PILLER Erscheinungen
– By Phillip GriffithPHIL COLLINS How to Make a Refugee
– By Yasi AlipourTONY OURSLER
– By Ann McCoyYOSHIAKI MOCHIZUKI Summer Solstice
– By Taney RonigerThe Female Gaze Part II: Women Look at Men
– By Alexandra FowleGÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA Chronographia
– By Michelle StandleyManus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
– By Hovey BrockVoices of a Waking Dream
– By Phong H. BuiGabriela Salazar: Eye of Palm
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertDaydream from 2013
– By Mira Dayal
Books
Bleeding-Heart Conservatives
– By Joshua AlvarezThe Masquerade of Bilingual Romance
– By Gretchen SchmidCHAPBOOK ALCHEMY: NO, DEAR/ SMALL ANCHOR
JEN HYDE, EMILY BRANDT, and ALEX CUFF with Sonia FarmerManderley Again
– By Weston CutterLOVE SKELETONS
JOHN REED with Elizabeth TrundleIn the Name of the Father, & the Son
– By Chris CampanioniHyphenated Identity: PETER HO DAVIES with Christopher Shade
The Time Between
– By Gillie CollinsThe World From a Hotel Room
– By Brian P. KellyThe Idea is Read About Rather Than Looked At
– By Chris CampanioniNot for Brooklyn in the First Place
– By Tom DeignanMy Mother, Myself, and Mr. Rightstein
NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON with Joseph Salvatore
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
The Malagasy Underground
– By Edward CarverAll Roads (And Genres) Lead To TIGUE
– By Billy McEnteeA DOUBLE ACT
Immaculate Conception by No Collective– By Cody EichmanOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
FROM CANNES TO ORAN, AND BACK
Hervé Koubi Drops Day and Night on the Pillow– By Gillian JakabWhat We Owe
– By Erica Getto"COPY IS ORIGINAL:"
Takao Kawaguchi's About Kazuo Ohno: Reliving the Butoh Diva's Masterpieces– By Jaime Shearn CoanFrom the City of Light to the City of Angels
– By Susan Yung
Film
KIRSTEN JOHNSON with Samuel Feldblum
GHOST STORIES
The Films of José Luis Guerín– By Paul FeltenSYMBOLS OF THE UNCONQUERED
On Pioneers of African American Cinema– By Colin Beckett
Fiction
Crescent Lips
– By Yeo Wei WeiThe Letter
– By Cyril WongSays The Bells Of The Clement
– By Grace ChiaBlood For Sale
– By O Thiam ChinLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part I: Found Animals b/w The Noise Rhapsodic Owl– By Sid GershgorenHitler's Nightmare
– By Daniel SchafferTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
from Artifice in the Calm Damages
– By Andrew Levyfrom Shepherd's Calendar
– By Rachel Blau DuPlessisfrom Full House 2
– By Randy Lee Maitlandfrom Animals of Dawn
– By Murat Nemet-Nejat
Special Report
SPECIAL REPORT
Dispatches from the Political Conventions– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
Turkish Layover:
An Accidental Tourist During the Attempted Coup– By Dane A. WisherBritain's Brexit Limbo
– By Tony NorfieldWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Class
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschUnderstanding the Labyrinth:
Noam Chomsky's Science and Politics– By Bruce Nevin