Unspeakable

Genital Mutilation — The Unspeakable Atrocity

39 MOST recent estimates indicate that 48,000,000 African women, ranging in age from a few days to beyond puberty, are currently victims of ritual genital mutilation. Though it is spoken of in Africa as “circumcision” it is actually quite distinct from the removal of the foreskin of a boy. Annie de Villeneuve gives an eye-witness account of what actually happens to girls : “Among the Somalis th...

Speakable and Unspeakable, Past and Future

A volume in honour of a visionary thinker such as John Archibald Wheeler is a rare license to exercise in the kind of speculation and exploration for which Wheeler is famous, but which most of the rest of us usually feel we had better keep to ourselves. We have all – even those of us who never had the fortune to work directly with him – been inspired and motivated by Wheeler's creativity and op...

Writing the unspeakable: Fanny Burney's mastectomy and the fictive body.

Bell’s theorem without inequalities and without unspeakable information

For the last 10 years, Asher has always been right there to help me with his advice and knowledge. He has always been reachable by e-mail to give a quick and precise answer to all my queries with a patience and enthusiasm far beyond that required by common courtesy between scientists. It is therefore an honor for me to be here as a friend to celebrate his 70th birthday. For this occasion I have...

Representing The Unspeakable Trauma: A Deleuzian Reading Of Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness

This paper explores Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to analyze Kurtz’s ghastly vision of horror (trauma) and how he overcomes this traumatic experience through the metamorphosis of becoming-animal/savage in forming his lines of flight from the oedipalizing/oppressive capitalism and imperialism. To avoid following a conventional approach to study this novella, I explore Kurtz’s unspeakable horror tha...