https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1276 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1368 The article proposes some possible approaches to the figure of Jane Avril, starting from some of Walter Benjamin’s categories. An interpretation based on Benjamin’s theory of language is proposed for the gesture of dance that gives Jane Avril her name. Although Benjamin’s reference to the Paris in which Jane Avril performs remains crucial, the key to the reading suggested here refers above all to concepts such as “Entsetzen”, “pure mediality”, “mimesis” and “shame”, to explore if and how Jane Avril’s “language” is related to a possible theory of “destituent potentiality”. mer., 26 juin 2024 10:07:52 +0200 mar., 29 oct. 2024 09:51:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1368 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274 Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub (1704) was, he claimed, a satire on corruptions in religion and learning written in defense of the Church of England. The atomistic materialism of De Rerum Natura, with its rejection of an incorporeal spirit or soul and its critique of providence, was accordingly one of the principal targets of the Tale; Swift’s contemporaries, however, feared that his parody was an application and extension of, rather than an attack on, Lucretius’ philosophy. Swift’s text shows their fears were well founded. ven., 09 févr. 2024 14:10:40 +0100 jeu., 22 févr. 2024 14:38:06 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274