...Arjun Appadurai Beginning from Weber’s claim that pursuit of capitalist profit developed out of the uncertainty of Calvinists about their salvational status, this article argues that the horizon of salvation remains essential to the apparatus of finance today. Often characterized as the zenith...

.... Explicit in Edelman's essay is the point that difference is meaningful insofar as it testifies to a turning or torquing ethics of reading that demands that we contemplate but not acquire the disfigurations it compels. In its critical illegibility, difference is neither a model nor an apparatus that can...

... of the figure of machinery in Althusser’s work: stage machinery but also the machinery and apparatuses by which the world of subjection is simultaneously staged and disrupted. This theater is also a theater of war and as such is an authorless theater, a production in the double sense of the term of absent...

... is not reducible to repression [. . .] the state apparatuses are not reducible to the repressive apparatus alone [. . .] individuals do not have their own personal ‘cop’ behind them or ‘in their heads’” ( “On Ideology” 179–80 ). Althusser insists on the distinction between exploitation and repression and argues...

... is a material instrument, the "soul" ofan observing apparatus, through which, not simply signals, but discourses (in a Foucaultian sense) operate. Examining the coupling of this instrument to an array of apparatuses, I use the piezoelectric transducer as a tool to examine the question of the relationship...

... how the terms of sexual difference have been both demarcated by other differences and limited by them. The apparatus (or dispositif ) of memory-making and naming has created boundaries out of ideological and conceptual necessity, ignoring the animal paw prints that make up the sexual, but have...

... is male or, at the very least, sexually non-specific (a member of a crowd). This is the spectator who, overly susceptible to the filmic illusion of the real, flees in terror at the sight of Lumiere's advancing train, and in doing so seems to fully accept the technological premises of the apparatus...

... beginnings and ends, whereas Szilard remains at least ambiguous on that issue. Rather than considering memory a result of a binary decision, in Szilard’s account memory is embodied in the design of the demonic apparatus, leaving...

... W. Pickford. New York:Columbia UP, 1998 . 143 -60. Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. (Notes towards an Investigation).” Lenin and Philosophy . Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review, 1971 . 127 -86. Balibar, Étienne. Masses, Classes,Ideas . Trans...

... - as textual system and as apparatus in which the issues of spectatorship and sexually differentiated subjectivity have been preeminent concerns. In recent years, there has been a growing body of feminist work on the still image in photography, an area exhibiting certain common appeals to scopic regimes...

... from Laura Mulvey's seminal article, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," which tie this objectification to the sadistic male gaze, to the structure of filmic diegesis itself, and to the irredeemably homocentric nature of the cinematic apparatus. Male bodies too are subjected to cinematic...

..., Jean-Louis. “The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in the Cinema.” Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology . Ed. Philip Rosen. New York: Columbia up, 1986 . 690 -707. Bazin, Andre. “Evolution.” What Is 1 : 23 -41. ____. Jean Renoir . New York: Da Capo, 1992...

... of a photographic apparatus; such, rather, is the task of a “hermeneutic of recollection” in which what is “restored” or “recollected” is not something in the object that preexists the accumulation of “spiritual” debris, but a mode...

... Attitudes .” Mind and Cognition: A Reader . Ed. Lycan William G. . Oxford : Blackwell , 1990 . 206 – 23 . Cilliers F. Paul . “ The Brain, the Mental Apparatus and the Text: A Post-Structural Neuropsychology .” South African Journal of Philosophy 9 . 1 ( 1990 ): 1 – 8...

...; at best it remained a leaky apparatus that fueled the sexual anxieties of Europeans. In the early twentieth century, capitalizing on these uncanny qualities of marine creatures, P. T. Barnum saw the spectacular potential...

... that Mulvey describes in terms of “fetishistic voyeurism”: shots of the female body alternating with shots of the villain (and later the hero) ogling her, offering the spectator a set of sites for identifying with the gaze of the apparatus as it apprehends her body. But in addition to this, we also have...

..., private information-gathering apparatus. Through electronic “room-boards” the staff had immediate access to information about the location, capacity, price, and decor of all rooms, along with knowledge about the status...

... too childish a Helen,” she said, “and it will help you language. If you put two messages side keep your speech at its present level of by side in such a piece of apparatus, excellence. It will also bring you differ- they stay side by side...

... and in the subsequent book, Eichmann in Jerusalem . The main source of rage were the few pages that described the part played by the Jewish leadership in Europe during the war—members of the Judenräte , but others too—in the Nazi extermination apparatus. An additional cause for fury was Arendt’s depiction...

... both masculine and feminine “char- acteristics” (and the referent of “characteristics,” like the referent of “bisexuality,” is constantly shifting, alternately designating bodily appear- ance, the sexual “apparatus” [7], sex-specifi c...