.... samuel solomon “The Necessity of Reading and Being Read”: Barbara Johnson and the Literary Politics of Narcissism The erratic individual cannot himself well the obstinacy and conceit that are see that his responses are inappro- the primary...

...” (xxvi): while the closest analog to normal for deviance studies might be social , normal became identified in queer theory with the forces of normalization or hegemony (including the forces of academic hegemony). By contrast, the concept of deviance thrived, but rather than being a descriptive term...

... of the Material.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 15 : 3 (Fall 2004 ): 95 -122. Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness . Trans. Hazel E. Barnes. New York: Washington Square, 1993 . Schilder, Paul. The Image and Approval of the Human Body: Studies in the Constructive Energies...

... critique 7 . 1 (Forthcoming). Zito Angela , and Barlow Tani E. , eds. Body, Subject and Power in China . Chicago : Chicago UP , 1994 . TANI E. BARLOW "green blade in the act of being grazed": Late Capital, Flexible Bodies, Critical Intelligibility Bodies of matter jostled...

... . BIDDY MARTIN Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary ~e separation of sexuality from gender, suggested by Gayle Rubin in "Thinking Sex," had the potential to challenge the binary frames within which sexual practices, sexual object choices, sexual desires are collapsed with gender...

...Irving Goh This essay presents a critique of Luce Irigaray’s contribution to Through Vegetal Being , one of several contemporary theoretical works involving a “turn to plant life.” Irigaray there adopts a “reject” position drawn from her intellectual life that she sees as well in plant life, still...

...Andrés Fabián Henao Castro Departing from where Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Martin Heidegger’s gender-neutral Dasein left off, this article argues for “ontological captivity” as a critical analytic for questioning Being under conditions of racial capitalism. Based on a broad understanding...

... Are Human Beings”: Mapping the u.s. Army’s “Human Terrain Systems” Program Rule Number One: Terrorists are human beings. They are human beings with emotions [that] can be channeled into lethal action and often bring inno...

.... [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. aesthetics being Leo Bersani queer theory reading sexuality...

...William Haver This essay explores Leo Bersani’s concept of the “continuity of being,” a concept that attempts to overcome the epistemophiliac Cartesian dissociation of res cogitans from res extensa by means of phenomenological considerations of the proximate milieu, as well as a metaphysical...

... oppositions: wakefulness/sleep; inside/outside; cause/disruption of causality; floating/fixation, location/dislocation; time/space; one/multiple; duration/intermittency, sound/silence; subject/Other; reality/fantasy, meaningless/meaning; sound/voice; “being and time,” “being and nothingness,” “being and event...

... as silence.” I trace the appearance of this linking of silence to the metaphysical language of presence in the work of Cage, Foucault, and Derrida. My argument is that, while the regime of silence is linked to a dialectic of being and nothingness, plenitude and finitude, the fullness of meaning or the ground...

... and deadly aspect. The ancient Greeks used the figure of the swarm to connote an anonymous and undifferentiated mass of human beings. Achilles' army of Myrmidons in the Iliad are at least antlike, perhaps even metamorphosed ants, ants become warriors. In the classical period, the comic poet Aristophanes uses...

...Ariella Azoulay More than once Arendt denied being a public figure and added that she did not entertain any “ambition to become one.” This poses a challenge to any filmmaker seeking to portray her character, as Margarethe von Trotta found when she contradicted Arendt’s self-perception to inquire...

... an extreme version of the experiences devolving from mind/body union. Far from suggesting that fetuses, like born human beings, were individuals (as they are portrayed in pro-life rhetoric), Descartes invited his readers to consider that born human beings, like fetuses, comprised embodied minds, connected...

... paradoxical use of the adjective “digital” to describe only a fraction of research methods that engage with digital technology creates a tension that must be resolved—either by the DH label being reabsorbed into literary studies or by literary research itself being fundamentally altered, a goal that DH has...

... about the very panhuman condition of “being-togetherness” that Bersani and Dutoit have registered in the ontology of Alain Resnais’s and Terrence Malick’s films. This peculiar “community of all being” is based on a specific (and paradoxical) kind of movement within the spatiality of a remembrance...