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	Avital Ronell Interview
		Ronell's work attempts therefore to redescribe responsibility from a postfoundational, posthumanist perspective that recognizes that the subject who acts is always, in advance, under the influence of something/someone, that there is a fundamental structure of dependency that precedes both desire and will.
		To a certain degree, she says, to write is to be "body snatched"; and, in fact, Ronell's work is packed with images of "somatic abjection," with images of the writer's body being taken over by writing, "overwritten," "hijacked," used and even abused by writing's expropriating force.
		According to Ronell, this is also the scene of reading: inasmuch as the reader accompanies the writer to the "nonplace of writing," he or she experiences the "infiniteness" of his or her own abandonment.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~davis/ronell.htm (1347 words)

	Avital Ronell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell is Professor and Chair of German and Professor of Comparative Literature, (additional info and facts about New York University) New York University, as well as a member of the faculty of the (additional info and facts about European Graduate School) European Graduate School.
		She is a (A critic of literature) literary critic, (A supporter of feminism) feminist, and (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher, perhaps best known as the "fl lady" of (A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning) deconstruction.
		Ronell was born in (The capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the countryi; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century) Prague to (A native or inhabitant of Israel) Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/av/avital_ronell.htm (206 words)

	Avital Ronell / Crack Wars
		Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictions that are culturally accepted--an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself.
		For Ronell, Emma Bovary represents the first addict, embodying a yearning that calls from the bottom of her humanity, and which it seems can only be satisfied by some sort of drug.
		Avital Ronell is a professor of German at New York University.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s04/ronell.html (470 words)

	Responsible Stupidity
		Ronell engages it in all its singularity, tailing it through its engagements with poets, novelists, philosophers, literary/critical theorists, and preschoolers, but the closer she brings you to it, each time, the less knowable it appears--and so the less representable.
		Ronell reminds us that irony, after Schlegel and de Man, is no mere trope but the permanent interruption of the meaning that tropes are charged with transporting; irony, then, she proposes, is "another way of saying finitude," another way to mark "the experience of sheer exposition" (144).
		Ronell suggests that this delimitation and reduction of the question of stupidity is a futile attempt by philosophy to protect "the domain of pure thought" from the stupidity that is both its guarantor and its original inhabitant.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/issue.903/14.1davis.html (4422 words)

	Avital Ronell
		Avital Ronell is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at New York University, where she is a professor of German, English, and comparative literature.
		And this is where Ronell's texts remain, in the open-ing, in the coming of open-ness; perpetually deterritorializing without reterritorializing, Ronell's work seems most at home in the unhomey danger zone that it catalyzes, right there where the "ground" is shaking and all the edifices are coming (crashing) down.
		Still, Ronell's work steers clear of "undeveloped pronouncements of nihilism," and in Stupidity she reminds her readers of the "Heideggerian distinction between destruction and devastation." "Destruction," she says, "involves the force of a critical clearing and does not imply the shell-shock stoppage of devastation" (122).
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/Ronell.html (1439 words)

	The Test Drive -- Avital Ronell
		Beginning with Nietzsche's discovery of the "experimental disposition," Ronell explores testing's ascension to truth in modern practice.
		Higher education is perpetually involved in tests, tests about tests, and in the creation, assessment, refinement, and justification of tests, so much so that some critics argue that education has become obsessed by tests.
		Ronell shows that the obsession to test is likely more deeply rooted and more broadly exercised.
	frontlist.com /detail/025202950X (287 words)

	The Decadentism of Theory
		Avital Ronell's ostensive purpose in Crack Wars is to demonstrate that the rhetoric of "addiction," familiar in the Reagan/Bush "war on drugs" has a well developed career in the service of bourgeois ideology.
		Ronell rewrites this experience of fiction addiction as a kind of pseudo-memoir, made strange in the diction of the tabloid press: "I couldn't stop reading, it was like I was becoming these persons" (79).
		Ronell's layering of criticism upon the pastiches of recognizable critical voices leaves the reader in true doubt of whether the false is aping the true or the true is aping the false, as modernist Huysmans proposes in his famous decadentist novel.
	www.echonyc.com /~goldfarb/addict.htm (2776 words)

	CPROBES: academia Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital spent the bulk of the evening offering anecdotes of her `friendship' with Kathy Acker, in the guise of this being a mourning-work.
		Avital addressed the concern that she 'was worried about dumping this on you'...
		No, Avital, I don't feel friendship, and though you might say that it is through this very distance that we are friends, well, I think that would be sophistry (and she did say precisely say this to the Dean, Wolfgang Schirmacher, when he suggested that such a distant and nonreciprocal friend was irrelevant).
	www.cprobes.com /archives/academia (1354 words)

	Avital Ronell / Stupidity
		In Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant.
		"[Ronell] proves herself yet again to be one of the most original and exciting of contemporary critics.
		Avital Ronell, a professor of German, English, and comparative literature and chair of the German department at New York University, is the author of The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, Dictations: On Haunted Writing, and Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s03/ronell.html (217 words)

	Your Buddy Wants to Directly Connect
		Ronell's concept of "dead batteries" and a death that is "not finite but can be recharged" makes a lot of sense in the online atmosphere.
		Ronell writes, "the call also calls from me. In this sense the 'me' is a receptionist who takes calls which are both outgoing and incoming; but when the connection is made, and I receive the call, to a certain extent I receive it because 'it reaches him who wants to be brought back''' (33).
		Ronell describes the schizophrenic mind as "a kind of switchboard where several lines can be maintained in the organ of consciousness simultaneously, without influencing one another" (116).
	www.diminishingreturns.net /schizoIM.html (3058 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Stupidity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell is one of the most provocative, street-savvy, and theoretically sophisticated thinkers of this age.
		Explicitly breaking with scholarly tradition, a tradition that over-values mastery and certitude, Ronell engages her "object" of study at the level of its radical singularity, tracking it through poets, novelists, philosophers, literary/critical theorists, and preschoolers.
		There are sections in the work that are explicitly political, where Ronell zeros in on the "secret beneficiaries of stupidity's hegemony," examining, for example, the invention of the word moron, a label meaning "a little below average," which routinely has been slapped on immigrant children to justify holding them back.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0252071271 (1107 words)

	Mediamatic.net - Avital Ronell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell is a professor of philosophy in New York currently chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and teaches German and comparative literature and theory — in addition to her yearly Fall semester seminar with Derrida.
		Avital Ronell's oeuvre is informed and facilitated by a wide range of (post) philosophers but when it comes down to it, as Eduardo Cadava observes, 'Ronell's work remains absolutely different.'
		Another striking aspect of Ronell’s work is its attentiveness to the materiality of language — that is, to the sound, shape, size, beat or rhythm, etc. of the words themselves.
	www.mediamatic.net /article-200.6336.html&q_keyword=200.255 (643 words)

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		Avital Ronell’s Crack Wars asks: “What do we hold against the addict?” Her discussion demonstrates the hypocrisy of the question and points to the idea that we are all “on” something.
		By remaining in the zone of anxiety, Ronell’s work frustrates an addiction to certainty that always relies on a constructed rhetorical situation.
		However, as Ronell shows us in her reading of Madame Bovary, nothing fits neatly into this modernist mold.
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	Academic residence of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in New York
		Christina von Braun and Avital Ronell discussed this question during the 8th Transatlantic Dialogue of Humboldt-Universität with 90 auditors.
		Subsequently, Professor Ronell took a closer look on the question whether there can be religion without sacrifice and presented a wide overview of the topic discussed, connecting it to recent events in world politics.
		In this context Avital Ronell mentioned that the image of a woman's body is often used as a synonym for a people, and hurting it means attacking the whole nation.
	www.hu-ny.org /events/events_tad8.htm (220 words)

	Bookslut \| SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
		But Ronell, unlike Solanas, is not writing only from the position of a marginal, institutionalized “psycho” (though she might be eager to claim that writerly identity among others.) Ronell is also a scholar and teacher, and her references to Solanas’s unconscious intellectual parentage with thinkers like Derrida, Deleuze and Judith Butler require careful explication.
		Ronell’s deconstructive name-play (Warhol is a “war-hole,” Valerie seeks valorization) only goes so far.
		But Ronell seems to shrink from the pathos of a biographical or worse, psychological reading of Solanas (who, she briefly mentions, was sexually molested by her father as a child.) Ronell’s essay ends on the starkly dramatic observation, delivered in a deadpan postscriptum, that “In college, Valerie Solanas majored in psych.” Yeah, so?
	www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2004_07_002814.php (557 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Stupidity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell's work studies the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant.
		A section on prolonged and debilitating illness pushes the text to an edge of a corporeal hermeneutics, "at the limits of what the body knows and tells." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		Advancing in full awareness of her vulnerability (and demonstrating constantly how this vulnerability exceeds awareness), she confronts the philosophical, psychosomatic, and ethico-political effects of her non-object through brilliant readings of a host of writers for whom stupidity (or idiocy) has become a haunting obsession or a kind of ambiguous promise.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0252071271/reviews (366 words)

	Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania (Texts and Contexts): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Ronell's book is a tour-de-force on many levels: for its lucid and startling close-reading of -Madame Bovary-, for the densely glittering energy (and humor) of her prose, and above all for its insight -- never before so comprehensively and convincingly argued -- into addiction as a symptomatic structure of the modern condition.
		If you've ever wondered what an artist (Avital Ronnell is a former performance artist) might be capable of coming up with if they became an academic (a professor) but were still devoted to the idea of performance, this is the answer.
		In other words, Avital Ronnel's "Crack Wars" and its "analysis" of Madame Bovary is possible because it is from a field of study that is unique in that it is devoted to the study of an artform (literary arts) while itself operating in the same medium as that artform (words).
	www.drug-rehab-advice.info /stuff-0803239033.html (1042 words)

	The Telephone Book - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Working with an advanced form of optical fiber, Avital Ronell establishes scandalously clear connections between her long-distance callers, and through them, between the mediatic and the literary, the technological and the political, the historical and the philosophical.
		Avital Ronell has done nothing less than ocnsider the impact of the telephone on modern thought.
		Avital Ronell is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/1523.html (750 words)

	Avital, alarm - www.barak.co.il/
		Avital Ronell is a EGS professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, where she teaches an Intensive Summer Seminar.
		Shmuel Avital was born in Morocco in 1952 and immigrated to Israel in 1953.
		Avi and Avital Wolanski had spent the weekend with Avital's parents in Moshav Tekuma and Avital Wolanski was buried alongside her husband in Jerusalem.
	alarm.allinfosites.com /q/alarm-avital.htm (492 words)

	Avital Ronell on artificial stupidity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell, "The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity" differences 8 (Summer 1996): 16-17
		The social rigging of intelligence cannot be limited to some film noir memory of communism projecting hostile fantasies upon capitalism.
		If one were to state the only possible ethical position, it would have to be this: I am stupid before the other.
	aad.english.ucsb.edu /docs/Ronell.html (405 words)

	Purse Lip Square Jaw: I wanna be a "deconstruction slut" like Avital Ronell
		A male student had dismissed Ronell as a "deconstruction slut" and other male and female classmates argued that it was a sexist and anti-intellectual comment to make, when controversial male authors had not been so dismissed.
		I really enjoy the politics and ethics of these types of ontologies and epistemologies, and I consider Avital Ronell to be a truly remarkable scholar.
		But here is how Salon describes her and the book: "Avital Ronell, the post-structuralist theorist perhaps best known for the naked photos of herself in the Re:Search "Angry Women" collection, had a book out last year called, simply, "Stupidity." (It wasn't clear whether she was for or against it.)"
	www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2003/04/i-wanna-be-deconstruction-slut-like.php (739 words)

	Local Angel - Theological Political Fragments - A film by Udi Aloni
		Local Angel will be shown at the Hamptons Film Festival, the Jacob Burns Film center and for a special weekend event at the at NYU's Cantor Film Center accompanied by exclusive commentary and lectures from some of the most pre-eminent philosophers of the world.
		Ronell bridges the European and American theory traditions and is well regarded for her books examining the relationships between philosophy, literature and media.
		Her seminar on forgiveness in conjunction with Jacques Derrida was a vital inspiration for the film.
	localangel.udialoni.com /press_release.html (717 words)

	Chance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Avital Ronell begins her _Telephone Book_ with an account of Heidegger's call, both the one described in _Being and Time_, and the one from the Nazi Stormtrooper described in the famous Der Spiegel interview.
		What I want to mind is Ronell's account of the invention of the telephone.
		She writes that a "metaphysics of invention" demands that we attribute its invention to Bell, when the invention itself is an accident, a chance occurrence, hastened only by Bell's complete ignorance of electronics, and Watson's near-worship of Bell.
	www.uta.edu /english/cgb/baud/seduce/chance.html (553 words)

	Avital Ronell - Professor of Philosophy - Bibliography
		Avital Ronell - Professor of Philosophy - Bibliography
		"Confessions of an Anocoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics." With D. Diane Davis.
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	www.egs.edu /faculty/avitalronell.html (477 words)

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		I stumbled across, or rather, was recommeneded Avial Ronell's The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, because I mentioned to an e-colleague I was writing a book on speech as a ghost.
		I suppose I am pleased, like a reader online who said Ronell's text resists him so much that he has fantasies about her--aided by the fact that in the public eye she always appears wearing something "severe" (that would be fl).
		I found her appearance in the new documentary about her friend and mentor, Derria, charming.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6806745&postID=109586139266755212 (550 words)

	Mediamatic.net - Crack Wars (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book.
		Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became widespread in the West.
		However, Ronell does not write about drugs, but about addiction; 'crack' is the drug that offers addiction and nothing else.
	www.mediamatic.net /artefact-200.5580.html&q_keyword=200.270 (518 words)

	Avital Ronell - Professor of Philosophy - Links
		A brief excerpt, entitled, 'The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity' by Ronell that outlines the topic(s) of exploration of her book, 'Stupidity.'
		The complete essay of 'The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity' by Ronell, with footnotes and works cited.
		'Intro,' by Ronell, a performative text-based experiment that toys with shaking off the subject into the properly public space of performativity of text itself.
	www.europeangraduateschool.de /faculty/ronell-links.html (101 words)

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