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Ritual Crossings/Wind
Authors: Pintchman Tracy 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores two broad types of religious performance regularly undertaken at or in conjunction with the Parashakthi Temple: temple rites, including the regular practice of various kinds of rites performed in temple space; and the pilgrimage journeys that the Parashakti Temple’s spiritual director, Dr. Krishna Kumar, undertakes frequently not on his own behalf, but on behalf of all devotees, to enhance the presence of shakti and the availability of the Goddess’s grace at the temple. While both temple rites and pilgrimage journeys are mainstream forms of Hindu religious practice, they come to be interpreted at the temple through a tantric-vernacular lens that fits the overall religious framing particular to this temple and its devotional community. I conclude with a section exploring a week of religious activity surrounding the reconsecration of the temple after it was destroyed by fire in 2018 and then rebuilt in 2022.
Divine Crossings/Space
Authors: Pintchman Tracy 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines the qualities of Karumariamman at the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan as the singular Divine Mother, the Great Goddess, who has come to the West for the benefit of all beings. The Goddess is simultaneously emplaced in her home in Pontiac, and thoroughly beyond place, simultaneously transcendent and immanent, supersensual but also a living presence attentive and available to her devotees. She is supreme, pure shakti, the totality of all matter (prakriti) and the loving Divine Mother who helps devotees in need, assisting them in both their material and spiritual journeys. This chapter examines the impersonal nature of the Goddess as space, vibration, light, and sound; as a metaphor for spiritual or psychological processes; and as a personal goddess who serves as healer, caretaker, and spiritual guide.
Mother House
Authors: Roberts Michèle 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter considers La Maison de Claudine. This book is a memoir. Although its title refers to Colette's early, bestselling series of novels about her schoolgirl heroine Claudine, that is a misnomer. This is not fiction. The work delves into Colette’s memories of her childhood in a village in Bergundy, and is composed of vignettes focussing on the figure of Sido, her mother, at its centre. Sido is revealed as complex and contradictory. She is both authoritarian matriarch and free-thinker. She is shown as the inspiration for Colette’s writing, encouraging her to read, modelling audacity and freedom. I consider how Colette may be censoring her account, how at the same time she uses elements from fairy tale to fictionalize her story and to veil some disturbing aspects of her childhood to do with her older sister, Juliette.
Conclusion
Authors: Roberts Michèle 
Published: September 2024

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I gather together and compress my thoughts about Colette's experimentalism as a writer, her originality and modernism, her courage in exploring sexuality. I stress that these qualities connect to her being inspired by her mother and her retelling of the myth of paradise and paradise lost. Colette writes with striking honesty and perception about ageing and letting go, and the subsequent being re-filled with earthly delights. I express my gratitude for her free thinking. I mention her impact on my young feminist self, and her relevance for people today thinking about ecology.
Introduction
Authors: Mandelkern Matthew 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter surveys the plan for the book, and introduces the framework of dynamic semantics with a brief discussion of presupposition projection. Presupposition projection is the phenomenon wherein contents “escape” operators which usually cancel entailments; hence, for instance, both ‘Susie stopped smoking’ and ‘If Susie stopped smoking, she’ll win the marathon’ naturally lead to the inference that Susie once smoked, whereas only the first leads to the inference that Susie doesn’t now smoke. The chapter explains the phenomenon and then sketches dynamic semantics’ elegant theory of presupposition projection, which provides a simple and compelling way to introduce and motivate the idea that interpretation can be dynamic, and the general dynamic approach to meaning.
The Dynamics of Conditionals
Authors: Mandelkern Matthew 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter explores evidence that, as far epistemic modality, there is something dynamic in the interpretation of indicative conditionals. For instance, ‘If the die lands even, it will land two’ seems to be interpreted differently when it appears on its own than when it appears in the conditional ‘If the die lands prime, then if the die lands even, it will land two’. Again, this kind of sensitivity of the interpretation of conditionals to their local environment shows up in a variety of phenomena involving incoherence and inference, which the chapter surveys. The chapter goes on to present the standard dynamic semantic account of those phenomena, and explains how that theory accounts for these patterns.
Bounded Modals and Conditionals
Authors: Mandelkern Matthew 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter starts to develop the book’s positive theory: the bounded theory of meaning. The chapter gives a semantics for a fragment including epistemic modals and indicative conditionals. On this approach, the fragment has standard truth-conditions: epistemic modals quantify over contextually accessible worlds; a conditional says that its consequent is true at the closest world where its antecedent is true. But, in addition to truth-conditions, meanings on the bounded theory comprise a dimension of constraint called bounds, which limit admissible resolutions of context-sensitivity. This two-dimensional approach explains the data motivating dynamic semantics, while avoiding the problems for dynamic semantics enumerated in the previous chapter.
Bounded Anaphora
Authors: Mandelkern Matthew 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter develops the bounded theory of anaphora, after briefly reviewing a trivalent theory of anaphora which the bounded theory builds on. On this theory, (in)definite sentences have broadly classical truth-conditions. The interaction of indefinites and definites is accounted for in the dimension of bounds, which allow for coordination between the witnesses of indefinites and subsequent co-indexed definites. In particular, an indefinite sentence like ‘Susie has a child’ is true just in case Susie is a parent; given that it is true, its bound is satisfied just in case some child of Susie’s is assigned to the variable indexing the indefinite. Definites, in turn, have bounds which allow them to pick up variables that are introduced by indefinites in this way. This accounts for the basic patterns motivating dynamic treatments of anaphora. But because the underlying treatments of the connectives is classical, the bounded theory avoids dynamic semantics’ problems with disjunction and negation.
Theoretical Aspects
Authors: Tsagalis Christos C. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter surveys the various theoretical aspects of using the method of oral intertextual neoanalysis—a term that was invented as a response to and refutation of the analytical school which dissected Homeric epic into smaller epics—to study the evolution and shaping of an oral epic tradition. Several different aspects are examined: internal criteria that support the method; external criteria for determining allusion to other, identifiable epic traditions; transference of motifs, themes, and phraseology from putative source-texts; entextualization (a dynamic process distinguished from textualization); and the issue of mythological reference and epic allusion (which pertains to our ability to determine whether thematic echoes indicate general knowledge of mythological material or specific allusion to other oral epic traditions).
A First Thematic Approach
Authors: Tsagalis Christos C. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter considers the relation between book 10 of the Iliad and the rest of the epic. An array of misconceived assumptions concerning the absence of foreshadowing and flashbacks to the Doloneia in the rest of the Iliad are thoroughly examined and evaluated. The core of this chapter rests on drawing the line between references to events and allusions to themes. By means of a detailed analysis it is argued that (a) the Doloneia contains various implicit intratextual links to the Iliad; (b) it operates on the basis of backward and forward allusions to themes found in other Iliadic books; (c) it works as a bridge contributing to the development of a certain theme linking one part of the epic with another; (d) it shares a significant number of verbal associations with the rest of the epic that make it interpretively richer when examined in combination; and (e) it contributes to the character-drawing of Agamemnon, Diomedes, the pair Diomedes and Odysseus, and Hector.
Reconstructing the Hector-Version of Iliad 10
Authors: Tsagalis Christos C. 
Published: September 2024

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Chapter 6 argues that in the earlier version of Iliad 10 the target of Diomedes and Odysseus was Hector, who posed the greatest threat to the Achaeans. However, because of the requirements set by the Trojan War myth, according to which Hector would remain alive for now, until he is killed by Achilles, Diomedes and Odysseus failed in their mission. Therefore, a great deed that would give courage to the Achaeans at this difficult time could only be achieved through the murder of another first-rank hero, whose loss would not harm the rest of the epic’s plot. It is suggested that this is why Rhesus was brought into the picture.
The Two Versions of the Rhesus Myth
Authors: Tsagalis Christos C. 
Published: September 2024

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Chapter 7 examines the Pindaric and oracle versions of the myth of Rhesus by a detailed analysis of the relevant sources that transmit them. The next step is the reconstruction of these versions through a reconsideration of various features that may have been included in them. The main argument is that the cyclic nature of the Rhesus myth was so dominant that one of its versions must have been included in an oral form of a pre-Homeric epic with a cyclic tinge known to the singer who introduced it to the Iliad. It is suggested that this oral epic included several events taking place after the death of Achilles and that the Rhesus episode was placed after the suicide of Ajax, when the Achaeans found themselves in a situation bearing a striking resemblance to the situation they are facing after Iliad 9. The withdrawal of Achilles from the war in the Iliad is parallel to his death at the end of the Aethiopis, since in both cases he is not fighting. The ensuing suicide of the other great Aeacid, Telamonian Ajax, in the Ilias parva deprives the Achaeans of their second-best hero too. The prevalent role of Diomedes and Odysseus in this epic, where they undertake various missions either separately (Diomedes brings Philoctetes from Lemnos and Odysseus brings Neoptolemus from Scyros to Troy) or jointly (the theft of the Palladium), creates the necessary poetic environment for the nesting of the Rhesus episode. This environment may have been a pre-Homeric oral epic tradition.
The Rhesus Story within the Cyclic and the Iliadic Tradition
Authors: Tsagalis Christos C. 
Published: September 2024

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Chapter 9 investigates the form and function of the cyclic features of the story of Rhesus and argues that it was part of pre-Homeric oral epic tradition. The similarities shared between the episode of Rhesus and those of late-arriving Achaean and pro-Trojan heroes such as Philoctetes, Eurypylus, Neoptolemus, and Coroebus make a case for its inclusion in an oral epic featuring both the events after the death of Achilles and the sack of Troy. This chapter also traces the process by which the Iliadic epic tradition replaced Hector with Rhesus in the plot of book 10, the changes that needed to be made because of this substitution, and the impact this shaping had on the Doloneia and the Iliad.
Introduction
Authors: Fowler Elizabeth 
Published: September 2024

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The introduction describes poems as collaborations between the sensible (the perceptible properties of artifacts) and the sensate (our perceiving flesh) and treats poetry as one among many arts that engineer such collaboration. All art intertwines the hypothetical and the real and so alters our experience of sensation and presence. Engaging with art, we develop habitus and situate ourselves within social life. The introduction initiates a practical criticism of what medieval rhetoricians called the “ductus” of art and gives an account of how poems, in particular, offer us invitations to move, feel, and think in a shaped sequence of experience. We are apt to miss art’s interactivity in our haste to translate its processes into meaning, but art without its interactive ductus would give us no experience to interpret. The ductility of poetry becomes more visible as this book compares it with the ductility of the built environment. The introduction considers the hammer, prayer tree, reliquary, door, landscape, monument, and Seamus Heaney’s “The Wishing Tree” in the course of framing a theory of art as a ductile, ritual interactivity in which we create ourselves and re-create our cultures.
Two Aspects of Virtual Space
Authors: Fowler Elizabeth 
Published: September 2024

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Chapter 1 of Part One, Station, is concerned with how powerfully art strives to orient its viewers, readers, and inhabitants in space. Extending J. L. Austin’s account of performativity to an analysis of art’s spatiality, this essay begins a central project of the book: to describe the action that is embedded in artifacts. Art speaks directly to the instincts and senses, and it also employs the sophisticated conventions humans have developed, entangling the real with the virtual. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to us. Like architecture, poetry draws on this expertise in striking ways, incorporating both propositional space—the focus of most criticism (what is the meaning of the window?)—and ductile space (what does the window invite us to do?). The spatiality of art is mixed and active, engaging us in a process of orientation. It habituates us to practices of spatiality we take into the world. With wit and joy, the poet’s dream encounter with a gate in Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls” differentiates and combines propositional and ductile experiences, revealing how well art is designed to engage us in action and to lead us to the experience of Austinian perlocution.
The Potential Energy of the Artifact
Authors: Fowler Elizabeth 
Published: September 2024

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Part Two, Motion, turns from accounts of configured, orienting space to a stronger assertion of art’s interactivity, performativity, and action. Chapter 3 asks, how does art generate action? Art’s ductus moves us within its mixed spatiality. Like mystics before him and like Milton, for example, W. B. Yeats layers spatiality at different scales. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” links the human body to the landscape and to even larger, planetary forms, offering to incorporate a station in the reader’s body. Heaney’s “Lightenings xii,” “Personal Helicon,” “Clearances VIII,” and “Station Island III” use similarly complex spatialities to move his readers to experience various relations between pain and bliss and to draw on religious ritual both skeptically and meaningfully. Keats’s “Ode to Psyche,” too, juxtaposes incompatible spatial scales; in it, the station becomes an instrument of reparation. These poems respond to injury by cultivating a devotional stance and generating a series of actions that are designed to tie us to place, to make us at home in stations, and, by means of the rituals of poetry, to enable us to conjure their movements in our bodies.
Drug-induced body disownership
Authors: Millière Raphaël 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines the debate on the phenomenology of body ownership—the putative experience of one’s body as one’s own. Proponents argue that this phenomenology exists and that it explains reports from pathological conditions and bodily illusions, but these reports face interpretative challenges. In this chapter, drug-induced experiences wherein subjects report ‘disownership’ of their body parts or whole body are considered. Unlike patient reports, these are from healthy people, with detailed descriptions obtained in controlled settings. Reports that describe subjective transitions between the experience of owning and disowning one’s body provide novel tentative evidence for the view that ordinary experience involves a phenomenology of ownership that can be disrupted. While such evidence is not definitive, the debate could benefit from paying closer attention to drug-induced states. Disentangling the multi-faceted bodily effects of psychoactive compounds could further illuminate whether body ownership is a component of ordinary bodily awareness.
Freedom Soldiers
Authors: Lande Jonathan 
Published: September 2024

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Freedom Soldiers follows the lives of once-enslaved soldiers as they fought for the US Army during the US Civil War and decamped in their ongoing struggle to become free. Undoing the many vestiges of slavery was a protracted process, which unfolded amid a bloody war. Thousands on this rocky road of liberation entered the US Army, where the process of emancipation continued. To engage the process and influence their evolving bonds with the US government, the enlisted freedom seekers examined in Freedom Soldiers used their feet and words to fashion their lives after slavery. They took self-granted breaks—or “leaves of freedom.” Many then defended their actions within the military justice system. These men, deemed deserters by the US Army, saw mobility as a crucial tool for shaping their lives after slavery. If tried and incarcerated for deserting, they defended their actions. They saw their unauthorized departures as legitimate means of redressing unacceptable restraints in the army. Freedom Soldiers reveals that the war for freedom was not only fought on battlefields. It was also fought in US Army camps, courts, and prisons.
“No Intention of Deserting”: Escaping Camp and Taking Leaves of Freedom
Authors: Lande Jonathan 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter explores the reasons why formerly enslaved soldiers decamped during the US Civil War. It compares the experiences of white and Black men as well as the distinct experiences of those who had been enslaved. It shows that while white and Black men left for similar reasons, including the chance to care for kin or escape abusive or unjust officers, those who had been enslaved saw their actions squarely within their prewar experiences in bondage. These enlisted freedom seekers responded to restraints and impositions they thought unfair just as enslaved men and women had during slavery—they ran. These soldiers did so because they continued seeing their actions as political efforts to shape their lives. The once-enslaved men decamped, or took “leaves of freedom,” and thus escaped unacceptable labor conditions. In so doing, the men attempted to define military service and their liberation.
“Establish My Innocence”: Defending Flight and Freedom in the Courts-Martial
Authors: Lande Jonathan 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines formerly enslaved soldiers’ responses to courts-martial prosecution. The soldiers adapted quickly to the army’s legal system, not unlike enslaved men and women in courts before the war. In the courts-martial, the men defended their actions, changing their legal strategies throughout the war. The soldiers first pointed to their lives in slavery and wartime difficulties. They contended that they should not be held accountable under such circumstances. Later, they argued that they left to help family, an appeal undoubtedly meant to evoke sympathy, but in making such appeals, the men also enunciated relationships they valued more than their military service to the US Army. By war’s end, they contested the legitimacy of their enlistment contracts. As they argued their cases, the soldiers challenged the military justice system, insisting they should be permitted to leave if they wished. In making these various arguments before the courts-martial, the formerly enslaved soldiers kept fighting to be free.
The Other Bouazizis of Our Times
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter offers an overview of the two main theoretical displacements that the book makes. The first is the excavation of a different history that has been occluded, distorted, repressed, or marginalized by teleology; the second is the interrogation of the dominant conception of political agency—the “subject”—in modern, Western philosophy to show its limits. The chapter theorizes the global, subterranean, and subversive history of self-directed violence, left out of the celebratory narrative that centers on the “subject” and its historical achievements (freedom, equality, democracy) as an alternative legacy of modernity. It reformulates the Kantian concept of “disembodiment” on a materialist register whose center is bodily agency, displacing “suicide” and the theoretical-normative apparatus around it. Drawing on Ernst Bloch, it suggests an alternative, expansive way of thinking about human dignity whose breach is otherwise seen as the ultimate secular grounds for the prohibition of self-destruction.
Throwaway Bodies
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter samples different forms of corporeal critique from the Global South to explore the ways in which the body constitutes the elementary reservoir of critique, while invoking alternative conceptions of being human. It offers further theoretical elaboration of the concept of corporeal critique by drawing from performance studies; specifically, the study of gesture. The chapter broadens the conventional conception of gesture to include disruptive acts in which the agency of the body irrupts against composure and dissolves the existing relation between self and body, as well as between self and the world. The chapter also expands the conception of crisis from colonial domination to neoliberal capitalism to discuss how current conditions, which manifest unevenly as precarity, disposability, and dispossession, create an invisible war against the oppressed that undergirds their everyday life and becomes conducive for the manifestation of resistance and refusal in unconventional forms.
Success in Circuit
Authors: Campbell Mary 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter turns to photographs to treat gendered space both within and outside the frame. Using a single photograph of Brigham Young’s daughters and a treasure trove of primary sources, the chapter unpacks a complicated family tree, gender and sexuality, and the politics of polygamy in the nineteenth century. With Latter-day Saint worries about government meddling, perhaps even incarceration, portrayals of polygamous families seem (perhaps deliberately) incomplete by often excluding the many wives. The aesthetic choice to both capture and conceal shaped a Mormon photographic style that spoke to a historical, theological, and cultural context that seems to have inspired and constrained what was done with the camera.