...Rey Chow REY CHOW Things, Common/Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan r r"TJr7 hat is going to happen to Hong Kong after 1997?" In the past few years, as Hong Kong's peculiar colonial fate gains international attention, this is the question I often...

... . Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory . Totowa, NJ : Rowman and Allenheld , 1988 . Clifford James . “ On Ethnographic Authority .” Representations 1 ( 1983 ): 118 - 47 . Coole Diana . Women in Political Theory . Sussex, UK : Wheatsheaf , 1988...

...Avital Ronell Exploring the cobelonging of the philosophical and the political, this essay reflects on the question of authority. Plato more or less invented authority when he sought to establish a reliable force that would intercede between power and persuasion. Rhetorical persuasion had failed...

... language. Examining scenes from Robert Southey's The Curse of Kehama , Lord Byron's Lara , and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , the author argues that European power is staged by subjecting a figure of the East to a kind of language that functions as a conduit of pure force...

... or metonymic causes. © 2015 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2015 theater author apparatus ideology materiality subject Althusser once made what he called the “simple observation” hat in a “conflictual situation [. . .] one cannot see everything...

... theoretical archive into a field-forming synthesis. In part 2, the authors offer a more studied consideration of the character of norms. By articulating the difference between a norm and the terms that often define it—domination, homogenization, exclusion, hegemony, identity, or more colloquially...

... of the liberal representative state, the author argues that war is now a fully operational part of the organizational work that terms like community, culture , and humanity are now doing (and doing differently than before). War in the sense invoked here is activated at various levels of intensity and visibility...

... innovations? The author turns to Gayle Rubin's two canonical essays (“The Traffic in Women” and “Thinking Sex”) to explore one route by which biology became the underbelly of feminist and queer theory: how it became both a disreputable mode of explanation and a site of political vulnerability. Of particular...

... of a romanticized nature in opposition to human culture or as sympathetic by virtue of some forced familiarity to humans, the author traces the path by which “jellies” have exerted a unique agency throughout the history of their captivity and, in doing so, forges a politics of the alien, in which empathy does...

...Charles Shepherdson This article explores the relation between the work of Lacan and Derrida, focusing on the use of modal logic in both writers (the categories of necessity, impossibility, contingency, and possibility). The author explores the structure of the aporia in Derrida as a peculiar...

...Alison Stone In response to Mader's and Deutscher's questions, the author defends her approach to reading Irigaray and Butler, which entails extending the ideas of these thinkers into areas of thought with which they do not engage directly themselves. This involves relating Irigaray's ideas...

...Hannah Zeavin “No Touching” argues that we can locate analytic solidarity in the boundaries drawn to protect analytic work from sexual enactment. The author traces ongoing elaborations of the notions of boundary and boundary violation as they become codified across the twentieth century in American...

...Galin Tihanov This essay reflects the author’s interest in understanding the reasons for the growing resistance to theory witnessed over the last couple of decades. The first part attempts to demonstrate that literature and literary theory have been involved in complex dialectical moves between...

...Alexander R. Galloway The politics of math are of newfound concern today, due to the outsize influence of algorithms and code in contemporary life. While only a few years ago, tech authors were still hawking Silicon Valley as the great hope for humanity, today one is more likely to hear how Big...

..., the authors see it emerging in Jacobean tragedy whenever something happens to the body of the legitimate monarch and poses a threat to culture itself, endangering kinship along with the metaphysics of kingship. In Hobbes's Leviathan , sovereignty is no longer immanent in nature and the order of the universe...

...Mrinalini Chakravorty; Leila Neti This article reads Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) to consider the questions of subjectivation and commodification motivating postcolonial critiques of power. The authors suggest that in the film, the assertion of sovereignty is articulated through...

...Banu Bargu This essay offers a rejoinder to Balibar’s reconstruction of Althusser’s thought. The author analyzes Balibar’s reading by attending to its formal protocols and substantive arguments, especially the transposition of the aporias in Althusser’s theoretical formulations, moving from...

...Willy Apollon This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author’s clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager–but under...