...Splitting the Difference<subtitle>Homoeroticism and Home Life</subtitle> ...

... Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves God split subjectivity political theology ...

... a theoretical physics through which we see how the Cartesian subject, in order to emerge as the subject of the enunciation, must be reduced to “a disposable piece of shit” in the form of the subject of the enunciated. The chapter’s thesis is that this split of the subject is also an intervention in the critique...

... This chapter focuses on Bergson’s Time and Free Will and shows the centrality of inner experience for philosophy. Jankélévitch argues that to avoid a splitting of the mind (and the philosophical pseudo-problems this engenders), philosophers must assume the place of the actor...

... jubilee celebrations in 1957. The sense of regional unity produced by the movement proved short-lived, and by 1937 political splits within São Paulo had undercut the appeal of Constitutionalism. In 1954 the uprising had become a premise for celebrating São Paulo’s prosperity and reinforcing a particular...

... a description of an act, performative language becomes the “act itself,” as in Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe’s weddings and Peggy Shaw’s Split Britches performance. Through a consideration of Occupy Wall Street, this chapter further develops these concepts into the idea of animatives, inappropriate...

..., leading to a spatial division: South Korea as a place for making money and Yanbian as a place for spending it. The chapter details how, under these split spatial practices, migrants have internalized a back-and-forth rhythm that serves as a governing force on the laboring body, thereby making care...

... distinction, with media markets split along linguistic and regional lines (Bollywood versus Sandalwood, for instance) as well as religious, class, and caste lines. In discussing place and scale in the Indian context, this chapter draws upon Amin’s “nonterritorial” way of conceptualizing place, where place...