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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 220–241.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Fernanda Negrete This essay reads Jacques Lacan’s 1967 “Proposition on the Analyst of the School” from the perspectives of the metapsychology that upholds the Pass at the École freudienne du Québec and of aesthetic acts in Andy Goldsworthy’s ephemeral works. Specifically, it examines the aesthetic...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 29–60.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the mouthly in and beyond Kant as a site of aesthetic agency and experience, this essay reveals how he aestheticizes enlightenment. Kant’s use of address underwrites an expanded array of demands and commitments cocooned within his view of enlightenment and vastly broadens the resonance of his call...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of this act in the clinical practice and in the domain of aesthetics, arguing that the act is not merely the source of the subject’s troubles...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the protein acts as an indexical sign to indicate that the gene construct has been correctly inserted. In an interview in the online magazine CultureLab , Bök describes the dna poem as “a very masculine assertion about the aesthetic creation of life.” In contrast, he describes the tone of the second...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 59–75.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Emmanuel Bouju This paper argues that the “debt narrative,” quite like the Rosetta Stone, is a historical, symbolic, and aesthetic way for us to decipher the interfaces between the three languages of economy, politics, and ethics. Debt narrative is not a simple figure of speech, literature...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 25–52.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Michael Dango A queer renovation of “rape” requires beginning not with actors, but with acts, which brings into view the central role of the state as a perpetrator of sexual violence. Radical feminists moved the “paradigmatic scene” of rape from the stranger in the alley to the acquaintance...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 27–61.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for new concepts that enable the heterogeneous actualization of feminism’s unharvested virtuality and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek’s rereading of suffragette thought as an aesthetic modernism articulating a radical right to revolt and to imagine an undefined feminist futurity, Pollock examines texts by Hannah...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
... this creativity the “plastic mode of work” (228), and she turns to the British artist Andy Goldsworthy for an extended illustration of how aesthetic acts—particularly those that involve the artist’s body in practices of documentation and repetition—can provide a path for the unbound drive. Goldsworthy’s ephemeral...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 113–131.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Kathleen Lubey Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2006 kathleen lubey is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in Queens, New York. She is currently completing a book that considers sexuality and aesthetics as interrelated sites...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 116–133.
Published: 01 September 2017
... by considering Petit’s walk in terms of the aesthetic differentiation among qualities of feeling. I subtitle this paper “Behind the Scenes of the Act with Philippe Petit” in order to stress that I would seek the act through its effects—in particular, its effect upon his entourage and those who happened...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 94–123.
Published: 01 May 2017
... gesture, at least, remains possible, if a poor substitute for rest. Suggestively, this gesture is qualified as made “adagio,” slowly. The adverb invests the man’s actions with a minimal musicality, as though, preparing and then lighting his pipe, he were engaging in a modestly aesthetic act. At the same...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 216–230.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the consideration of sociotechnical problems, the argument is made that these resources might be productively placed in dialogue with existing digital methods and techniques through a reflection on media aesthetics. The article concludes by illustrating the relevance of this general framework with reference...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 68–94.
Published: 01 April 1997
... of the acting person. The psychosexual structures that underpin psychoanalytic theories have a very specific aesthetic: one that appeals to some and not to others. We-those of us who dabble in psychoanalysis and many who do not- are now so used to the concept and the structure of the Oedipus complex that it has...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 198–219.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by the drive that opens up an aesthetic space for the censored. This body has nothing to do with what culture calls the body, however, since it is made manifest only in those acts that give expression to something that cannot be said. If the feminine is concerned with what cannot be said, and thus...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
... circle of aestheticism as “raced” and
“gendered.” In the identity-neutral space of experimentation, Ziarek sees
the processes by which the aesthetic contribution of women and women of
color are stripped of their aesthetic function...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to incite its audience to act, they also draw attention to the black screen’s capacity to function as stoppage and, in this way, they highlight an aspect of the black screen’s functioning that aligns with what I have been referring to as aesthetic refusal. 24 For Isidore Isou, who founded...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 24–62.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., Race,and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (Summer 1996 ): 213 -36. Badiou, Alain. Deleuze: The Clamor of Being . Trans. Louise Burchill. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2000 . ____. “Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Ewa Plonowska Ziarek This essay develops further the main implications of a feminist theory of aesthetics and modernism first articulated in Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism . By engaging critically with Theodor Adorno and Giorgio Agamben in the context of feminist theories...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 129–170.
Published: 01 July 1998
... to chocolate and lard, her "signature" materials since Gnaw (1992), she uses soap, mascara, hair dye, and lipstick to produce her work. These familiar bodily acts and banal accessories of femininity mediate Antoni's negotiation as an artist with, on the one hand, the gendered legacy of specific aesthetic...
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differences (1995) 7 (1): 188–208.
Published: 01 April 1995
... in American Literature . New York : Oxford UP , 1987 . Chin Frank . “ Come All Ye Asian American Writers—the Real and the Fake .” The Big AIIIEEEEE! Ed. Chan Jeffery Paul , et al. New York : Meridian , 1991 . 1 – 92 . Eagleton Terry . The Ideology of the Aesthetic...
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