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editing work with details
Hiring and tenure and promotion committees ought to value editing work. Contacting authors, drafting a proposal, prying an essay from always too busy writers, editing for style and content, producing feedback and encouraging revision, all the work of formatting and initial copyediting, then backs and forths with folks at the press … it is a lot of work and deserves professional respect. Scholars always need and value collections. Valuing the work behind edited collections needs to match the value we put on the ideas such collections offer us.
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Essays on Glissant’s work with particular attention to its theoretical elements. Engages a range of thinkers from Europe, the U.S., and the Caribbean. Published in 2015. Link to book…
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John E. Drabinski and Marisa Parham, “Introduction: Glissant, Creolizing Philosophy” / 1. H. Adlai Murdoch, “Glissant’s Opacité and the Re-Conceptualization of Identity” / 2. Seanna Sumalee Oakley, “In Citation to the Chance: Glissant, Citation, Intention, and Interpretation” / 3. Clevis Headley, “Glissant’s Existential Ontology of Difference” / 4. Max Hantel, “Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization” / 5. Hanétha Vété-Congolo, “The Ripening’s Epic Realism and the Martinican Tragic Unfulfilled Political Emancipation” / 6. Marisa Parham, “Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation” / 7. John E. Drabinski, “Aesthetics and the Abyss: Between Césaire and Lamming” / 8. Neil Roberts, “Marronage between Past and Future: Requiem for Édouard Glissant”
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A collection titled “James Baldwin’s Lives,” put together with Grant Farred for New Centennial Review, reflecting a wide-range of engagements with Baldwin’s work and legacy. Link to journal…
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1. Grant Farred, “Baldwin in Britain” / 2. Michele Elam, “Baldwin’s Boys” / 3. Emily J. Lordi, “James Baldwin and The Sound of Soul” / 4. Magdalena J. Zaborowska, “Being James Baldwin, or Everything Is Personal” / 5. Marisa Parham, “17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody” / 6. John E. Drabinski, “Baldwin’s Three Africans”
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A short collection of essays on James Baldwin’s work with emphasis on the more speculative or philosophical elements of his fiction and non-fiction. Link to journal on Muse…
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1. Ian Balfour, “The Force of Black and White: James Baldwin’s Reflections in/on his Early Experience of Film” / 2. John E. Drabinski, “Vernaculars of Home” / 3. Jane Anna Gordon, “What Should Blacks Think When Jews Choose Whiteness? An Ode to Baldwin” / 4. Jonathan Eburne, “The Terror of Being Destroyed” / 5. Grant Farred, “Love is Asymmetrical: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time“
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Essays on the intersection of Levinas and Heidegger around issues of language, time, subjectivity, and related issues in European philosophy. Link to book…
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John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson, Introduction / 1. Ann Murphy, “Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of “First” Philosophy” / 2. Philip J. Maloney, “Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence” / 3. Eric S. Nelson, “Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History” / 4. Didier Franck (trs. Robert Vallier), “The Sincerity of the Saying” / 5. Emilia Angelova, “Time’s Disquiet and Unrest: the Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas” / 6. Simon Critchley, “Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit” / 7. Françoise Dastur, “Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology?” / 8. Robert Bernasconi, “Useless Sacrifice” / 9. François Raffoul, “The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger” / 10. Peter Gordon, “Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger” / 11. Krzysztof Ziarek, “Which Other, Whose Alterity? The Human after Humanism” / 12. John E. Drabinski, “Elsewhere of Home”
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A volume of the annual Levinas Studies dedicated to issues of race and racism, with focus on postcolonial critique, phenomenology of embodiment, and political theory. Link to volume…
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John E. Drabinski, Introduction: Levinas, Race, Racism / 1. Lisa Guenther, “Fecundity and Natal Alienation: Rethinking Kinship with Levinas and Orlando Patterson” / 2. Simone Drichel, “Face to Face with the Other Other: Levinas versus the Postcolonial” / 3. Oona Eisenstadt, “Eurocentrism and Colorblindness” / 4. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Levinas’s Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization” / 5. Mary Gallagher, “Ethics in the Absence of Reference: Levinas and the (Aesthetic) Value of Diversity” / 6. Anjali Prabhu, “Eros in Infinity and Totality: A Reading of Levinas and Fanon” / 7. Kris Sealey, “Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Solidarity” / 8. John E. Drabinski, “Vernacular Solidarity: On Gilroy and Levinas” / 9. Grant Farred, “Rightlessness: The Case of Basil D’Oliveira”
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Special issue on Édouard Glissant for C.L.R. James Journal, exploring theoretical and comparative issues in Glissant’s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Link to journal…
0. Neil Roberts, “Marronage Between Past and Future” / 1. John E. Drabinski, “Introduction: Theorizing Glissant, Creolizing Philosophy” / 2. Adlai Murdoch, “Glissant’s Opacité and the De-Nationalization of Identity” / 3. Seanna Sumalee Oakley, “InCitation to the Chance: Glissant, Citation, Intention, and Interpretation” / 4. Clevis Headley, “Glissant’s Existential Ontology of Difference” / 5. Nick Nesbitt, “Édouard Glissant and the Poetics of Truth” / 6. Marisa Parham, “Breadfruit and Time Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation” / 7. John E. Drabinski, “Aesthetics and the Abyss” / 8. Hanétha Vété-Congolo, “The Ripening‘s Epic Realism and the Tragic Martinican’s Unfulfilled Political Emancipation”
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Forum on Frantz Fanon’s work in recognition of the 50th anniversary of The Wretched of the Earth, with contributions on continuing relevance of Fanon’s magnum opus. Link to journal…
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1. Anthony C. Alessandrini, “Toute décolonisation est une réussite: Les damnés de la terre and the African Spring” / 2. Nigel C. Gibson, “The New North African Syndrome: A Fanonian Commemoration” / 3. Jane Anna Gordon, “Revolutionary in Counter-Revolutionary Times: Elaborating Fanonian National Consciousness into the Twenty-First Century” / 4. Matthieu Renault, “Corps à corps: Frantz Fanon’s Erotics of National Liberation” / 5. Anjali Prabhu, “To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual” / 6. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, “De Frantz Fanon à Edward Said: L’impensé colonial” / 7. Lewis R. Gordon, “Afterword: Living Fanon”
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Essays on the significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema, both in terms of his work in sound + image and in terms of his resonance in contemporary philosophy. Link to journal…
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1. John E. Drabinski, “Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema” / 2. David Sterritt, “Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight” / 3. Michael Walsh, “Happiness is Not Fun: Godard, the 20th Century, and Badiou” / 4. David Wills, “The Audible Life of the Image” / 5. Burlin Barr, “Shot and Counter-Shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the Breakdown of Discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique” / 6. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, “Pedagogy of the Written Image” / 7. Gabriel Rockhill, “Modernism as Misnomer: Godard’s Archaeology of the Image”