Lyotard and Critical Practice (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK) and Margret Grebowicz (University of Silesia, Poland) Part I: What Resists Thinking 1. Listening to the Mute Voices of Words: Errant Pedagogy in the Zone, Derek R. Ford (DePauw University, USA) 2. Animal Testimony: Cetaceans Between the Interspecies and the Inhuman, Margret Grebowicz (University of Silesia, Poland) and Marina Zurkow(New York University, USA) 3. Under Threat: Rights and the "Thing", Claire Nouvet (Emory University, USA) 4. A Matter of Time: Colour, Affect, and the Suffering of Thought, Georges Van Den Abbeele (University of California, USA) Lyotard Supplement I 5. "The Affect-phrase" (from a Supplement to The Differend)-J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Keith Crome 6. "The Other's Rights," J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Chris Miller and Robert Smith Part II: Long Views and Distances 7. Citing and Siting the Postmodern: Lyotard and the Black Atlantic, John E. Drabinski (Amherst College, USA) 8. Jean-Francois Lyotard's Marxism, in Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Algerian War, Claire Pages (The University of Tours, France) 9. Lyotard and the Inhuman Mode of Production, Bartosz Kuzniarz (University of Bialystok, Poland) 10. Lyotard after Us, Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Lyotard Supplement II 11. "What we cannot reach flying we must reach limping" Art Present: Interview with J.-F. Lyotard by Alain Pomarede, translated by Kiff Bamford and Roger McKeon 12. "Apathy in Theory", J.-F. Lyotard, translated by Roger McKeon Part III: Why Art Practice? 13. Mute Communication: Drawing the Military-Industrial Complex, Jill Gibbon (Leeds Beckett University, UK) 14. Critical Practice and Affirmative Aesthetics, Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee, UK) 15. "hang on tight and spit on me": Lyotard and Contemporary Art, Stephen Zepke (Independent Researcher, Austria) 16. Uncertain? For Sure. Limping? Certainly: Limp Thoughts on Performance Practice, Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK) "Afterword": Lyotard's Prescience, Peter Gratton (Southeastern Louisiana University, USA) Bibliography Notes on Contributors