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...Mladen Dolar The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka’s story “The Burrow,” in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound...

... gure of Battling Burrows and safely transposed to the London East End. Thus, I would argue that it is problematic to assume, as many of Griffi th’s contemporaries did, that since the fi lm self-consciously distances itself...

.../3: 235–48. Chow, Rey, and James A. Steintrager. “In Pursuit of the Object of Sound: An Introduction.” 22.2/3: 1–9. 314 Index Volume 22 Dolar, Mladen. “The Burrow of Sound.” 22.2/3: 112–39...

... in Perspective.” New York Times 12 Oct. 1999 . Bunton, Robin, Sarah Nettleton, and Roger Burrows. “Sociology and Health Promotion: Health, Risk and Consumption under Late Modernism.” The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk . Ed. Bunton,Nettleton, and Burrows...

... that this state of being, or this state of barely being, is temporally and 106 “The Place Where Life Hides Away” spatially coincident with “normal” bodily being. The power to burrow...

... : Pantheon , 1985 . 63 - 80 . Benston Kimberly . “ I Yam What I Am: The Topos of (Un)Naming in Afro-American Literature .” Black Literature and Literary Theory . Ed. Gates Henry Louis Jr. New York : Methuen , 1984 . 151 - 74 . Burrows Edwin G. , and Wallace Michael...

... that normally develop into the placenta (Mayo). As a result, the fetus almost always dies at the end of the first trimester, when it should transition from being supported directly by the bloodstream to being supported by the placenta. In rare cases, the abnormal cells also burrow into the uterus, where...

... in tragic drama, but it’s as if Maggie has by this time had enough of tragic identification: instead of mirroring his desire the way Charlotte would have (“I go by you,” Charlotte had repeated to the Prince on the occasion of their first adultery [270]), Maggie receives and returns it by burrowing blindly...

... of excessively small mouths” (278). The excruciating inhalation continues as “he felt horrible, round burrows [enfoncements] in his skin. It seemed to him that innumerable lips, affixed to his flesh, sought to drink his blood” (277). While I...

...” is not a causal center from which all the lines emerge but a spot where “as a rule” they eventually converge: more of a hole burrowed by overlapping cuts than a definitive point of genesis. Overdetermination describes how unconscious thought is organized through multiple and shifting arrangements of meaning...

... of neutrality, but that we might genuinely take up and publicly avow the excess itself. By identifying fully with this fantasmatic excess, one takes up a critical position relative to the ruling ideology. This is a critique that doesn’t aim at an outside, but that burrows itself within what it fights...

... annular constriction, there is no universe beyond the displacement of what its burrowing consciousness tunnels. Before this, though, we are held within something like the shape of narrative, “the next unto the farthest,” vertiginously abridged. At once precipitously vast and stiflingly close, the chain’s...

... of interpretation and the unpacking of a secreted or veiled structure. In language suggest- ing the detection of disgust as a noxious nose-burrowing hunt, Kolnai imagines this narrative: [F]rom the very...

... 29 I would like to thank Stuart Burrows, Rey Chow, Ellen Rooney, and Elizabeth Weed for help- ful comments and suggestions. My attention was first drawn to the problem addressed in this essay during...

... the nursing infant's first contact with the outside but also the "other. " His initial "burrowing" movement, which is meant to establish contact - indeed, biologically indispensable fusion - with the mother's body takes on a "negative" value by the age of six months. The rotating movement ofthe head...

... being and in virtue of its own laws” (Correspondence 233)—is helped along by his reconceptualization of philosophy’s classic formulation of subject-predicate logic, but one that burrows in a diametrically opposed direction...