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Thoughts on Modernism and “Feminist Aesthetics of Potentiality” In Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Donna V. Jones This brief review essay focuses on the central question posed in Ewa Plonowska Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism : if feminism is considered in social and biographical terms while aesthetics focuses on questions of form and abstraction, does a feminist...
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Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 69–93.
Published: 01 November 1991
... Paul . “ Sign and Symbol in Hegel's Aesthetics .” Critical Inquiry 8 ( 1982 ): 761 - 75 . Derrida Jacques . Glas . Trans. Leavey John P. Jr. and Rand Richard . Lincoln : U of Nebraska P , 1986 . Derrida Jacques . “ The Pit and The Pyramid: Introduction...
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Feminist Aesthetics: Transformative Practice, Neoliberalism, and the Violence of Formalism
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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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Incandescence, Melancholy, and Feminist Bad Vibes: A Response to Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Robin James Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through...
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Cinema against Communication: Spectacle, Anxiety, and the Aesthetics of Refusal
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Kenneth Berger This essay reassesses the concept of spectacle and argues for aesthetic refusal as a key strategy for contesting spectacle’s expanding hold on everyday existence. Against the view that spectacle renders the individual passive, the essay asserts instead that spectacle develops...
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Kantian Mouthliness: Enlightenment, Address, Aesthetics
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 29–60.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Monique Roelofs Kant’s famous Enlightenment article is a crucial but overlooked source for his aesthetics. This essay unlocks its aesthetic significance by scrutinizing the mode of address in which Kant grounds his enlightenment project. Enlightenment, for Kant, revolves around the address we...
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The Abstract Soul of the Commodity and the Monstrous Body of the Sphinx: Co modification, Aesthetics, and the Impasses of Social Construction
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differences (2005) 16 (2): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Levinas, Fanon,and literary modernism. She is coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity:The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis and Intermedialities:Philosophy, Art, Politics (both forthcoming). Currently she is working on a book devoted to feminist aesthetics. Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic...
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The Hollow Women: Modernism, the Prostitute, and Commodity Aesthetics
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differences (1995) 7 (3): 80–108.
Published: 01 November 1995
...: Masculine Identity and the ‘Exchange of Women.’ ” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 4 . 1 ( 1992 ): 40 – 75 . Haug W. F. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1986 . Huyssen...
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The Aesthetic Pass: Beauty and the End of Analysis
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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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The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 193–207.
Published: 01 September 2024
... are an Afrofuture, already arrived and still arriving. There is no need to transform the cosmos into a Black aesthetic. The cosmos is a Black aesthetic, has long been so, and will continue to be so. Using the framework provided by Hammonds in “Black (W)holes,” I write now to urge us to read ourselves where we...
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The Aesthetic Death Drive of Modernism
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...
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Identity and Nonidentity in Aesthetic Theory
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 128–147.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Mary Caputi Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Adorno Theodor . Aesthetic Theory . Trans. Lenhardt C. . Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 . Adorno Theodor . Negative Dialectics...
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Sleights of Capital: Fantasies of Commensurability, Transparency, and a “Cultural Bourgeoisie”
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 101–126.
Published: 01 December 2013
... different types of aesthetic production and consumption that cannot obtain; and it overlooks the crucial contribution of individual labor to the accumulation and exchange of cultural capital. If we turn our attention from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe to early modern (Ming and Qing) China...
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Wantonness: Milton, Hogarth, and The Analysis of Beauty
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 25–47.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Abigail Zitin Critics have identified William Hogarth’s correlation of beauty with desire as the most original idea that his 1753 treatise contributes to aesthetic discourse in the eighteenth century, an idea emblematized in the formulation that visual intricacy “leads the eye a wanton kind...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Jacques Khalip; John Paul Ricco The editors’ introduction to this special issue of difference s titled Syntax of Thought: Reading Leo Bersani describes the issue’s focus on the speculative importance of aesthetics in Leo Bersani’s scholarship, especially his attention to a “syntax of thought...
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Aestheticism
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 14–19.
Published: 01 May 2023
...John David Rhodes This essay considers Bersani and Dutoit’s alignment of passivity and the aesthetic in “Merde Alors,” their essay on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Salò . Passivity is a key strategy for the production of works of art and is key to understanding the mode of the aesthetic itself...
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Renunciation
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Ryan Dohoney In their ruminations on Mark Rothko’s Chapel paintings, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit posit a mode of aesthetic consciousness produced by acts of renunciation. Rothko deliberately relinquishes his paintings’ visibility and thus, like Beckett and Resnais, impoverishes a primary feature...
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Rot's Progress: Gastronomy according to Peter Greenaway
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 73–96.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Eugenie Brinkema What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and the most visceral of the negative affects, disgust? The history of “good taste”—from the philosophical subdiscipline of aesthetics to French haute cuisine—banishes and simultaneously cultivates all things that taste bad...
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Unbelonging: In Motion
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the queer aesthetic of Isaac Julien. Understanding Julien's use of citation and technology allows for an aesthetic elaboration of difference that highlights the persistence of modernism in postcolonial installations. It reinvests the idea of hope in modernism through a postcolonial lens that both laments...
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Withdrawal
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 283–293.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Damon Ross Young Leo Bersani’s writings on aesthetics, often coauthored with Ulysse Dutoit, repeatedly deploy the trope of withdrawal, finding in the aesthetic works they discuss, such as Jean-Luc Godard’s film Contempt , a paradoxical double movement of bringing into view while projecting...
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