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differences (2024) 35 (3): 178–201.
Published: 01 December 2024
... scale. The humanitarian impulse is rooted, partly, in the desire to narrate oneself onto the globe, linking a savior to a suffering other, with Africa problematically positioned as the ultimate target of Western benevolence. Through analysis of NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names , this essay...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 27–61.
Published: 01 July 1994
...: in the new age of transnational capital flow and world migration and, I would add, of the internet and computer pornography, of off-shore production plants and narco-dollars, the material and symbolic conditions are totally intertwined. I think we need new theories that encompass the simultaneity of semiotic...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 May 2015
... reconsideration of the politics of normativity and antinormativity will thus have to reconsider the regime of the particular. In the name of establishing normativity, our current marketplace of particulars encourages the opposition it needs in order to survive. If we are to break this endless cycle of ontologized...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 106–133.
Published: 01 September 2003
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revolution can [thus] only be a revolution of radical needs, the
presuppositions and birthplaces of which appear precisely to be
lacking. ( Selected 69)
In this paradoxical humanism, we grasp ourselves by taking...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 152–165.
Published: 01 December 2019
...,” the midwife says as she hands the baby over to his father’s wife, “after a wish his mother should have lived to see” (“Out of Town”). And we are off. A man named after his father’s sex organ negotiates the parameters of toxic masculinity in the New York advertising world of the 1960s and 1970s. It does not go...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 30–74.
Published: 01 April 1998
... (for the breast) is present together with the fulfillment of an organic need (for milk), the new object reveals a new division, this time on the side of the subject. According to Freud, the relation to the other (the body of the other as a whole) brings with it a repression of the drive: We call the mother...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 54–81.
Published: 01 September 2008
... l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage, 1989 . ———. Renegades, Mariners, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In . Hanover: up of New England, 2001 . Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. 1855. In The Piazza Tales . New York: Library of America...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 27–61.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of dreaming new knowledge by explaining the relation of concepts and thinking itself to the world we inhabit and to the future of feminist theory. We need concepts in order to think our way in a world of forces we do not control. Concepts are not a means of control, but forms of address that carve out...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2005
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am a follower of Derrida, that is because he is still teaching me everything
needed to confront the experience into which we are plunged following
his death. Jacques Derrida was and is my teacher, and I am still learning
everyday...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 242–261.
Published: 01 December 2022
... breakthrough that we need. The call to pity people for merely wanting to survive deprives them of their complex sexuality, as though the only way to mitigate antipathy for others is by adopting a new mode of “tender pessimism” that offers reprieve from harsh and unfair judgment by reducing all desire...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 April 1991
... as postmodernity's more treacherous attributes include disorientation resulting from boundary breakdowns, collapsed narratives, high object density, excessive speeds, and sensory bombardment, we are in no little need of the perspective theory promises. Confounded as well by the decertification of god, science...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 93–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... it explains the need to abolish waiting time, does not explain why instant gratification must also be personalized , nor does it help us to understand the context in which we find ourselves stuck in desire. Beyond the abolition of waiting time, Brennan’s early account of our “age of paranoia” names a desire...
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differences (2004) 15 (2): 54–90.
Published: 01 September 2004
...,
as we have all learned is possible, but in the concrete, inventing new ways
to spend our own energy” (51).
A space where women who share similar interests (for example,
in texts, authors, genres, criticism, and so on) can...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 62–78.
Published: 01 September 2016
... questions as the naming of a program, and yet in terms of students’ interests in studying within the programs, it is not a trivial issue. At Duke where I directed the Women’s Studies program for seven years, we, the faculty, always found our name anachronistic, even as we would acknowledge that some...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 137–159.
Published: 01 November 1989
...) - is visible or readable in every chapter of Mario ill Makeup and Bobby's New Panties. What is the gendered subjectivity of these representations? d fferences 141 It is not clear to me who reads these novels and magazines, but statistically, we know, male transvestites are largely middle-class, heterosexual...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 2023
... access to the objects of our desire, it wouldn’t be desire at all but rather something commensurate with the pure drive of jouissance. Which is to name a double paradox: the very thing that drives us, if we had access to it, would burn us up. Yet any frustration of this absence, necessary for ego...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... there is no “promiscuous” mode because there is no monogamous mode, we need to inhabit things differently: to develop new habits of connecting that disrupt the reduction of our interactions to network diagrams that can be tracked and traced. Our networks operate by fore-giving: signals, some of which we can read...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 30–54.
Published: 01 May 2013
... slightly differently: while I
agree fully with Pateman’s argument, I want to emphasize, in a way that
was not her focus, not only that we need to rethink and defend notions of
consent but that to fail to do so is to contribute...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... has to be historicized. It seems clear that we need a methodology that allows us to contest rather than reproduce the ideological system that has up to now defined the terrain of black women's sexuality. Spillers made this point over a decade ago when she wrote: "Because black American women do...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
... cannot be ab/extracted from its blackness—risk being not so much outmoded as held in irrelevance as part of the “irreducibly abnormal category” ( Hammonds 138 ). We are left alone, as citation numbers generally bear out ( Wright et al .), by all but each other until diversity labor is needed or until we...
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