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Conference Call
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 52–108.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Barbara Christian; Ann duCille; Sharon Marcus; Elaine Marks; Nancy K. Miller; Sylvia Schafer; Joan W. Scott Conference Call d iff ere nee s thought it a timely project to set up an "inter- generational polylogue" between, on the one hand, several advanced graduate students with a strong interest...
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Call My Son Ismael: Exiled Paternity and Father / Son Eroticism in Reinaldo Arenas and José Martí
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differences (1994) 6 (1): 69–97.
Published: 01 April 1994
... , 1991 . BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER Call My Son Ismael: Exiled Paternity and Father I Son Eroticism in Reinaldo Arenas and Jose Marti Un artista poderoso se reinventa sus fuentes y sus influencias Las influencias no son de causas que engendran efectos, sino de efectos que iluminan causas a traves de una...
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The Call to Intimacy and the Shame Effect
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
... these: the “subject effect” and the “shame effect.” What links these different effects, the author argues, is that in every case the effect is closely tied to a process of naming or stepping forth— what is here called “instantiation.” A theoretical account of instantiation is therefore necessary if we...
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“Called Into Existence”: Desire, Gender, and Voice in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of 1845
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 108–136.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of Illinois P , 1979 . Walker Peter . Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Abolition . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP , 1978 . GEORGE P. CUNNINGHAM "Called Into Existence": Desire, Gender, and Voice in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of 1845 11...
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Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 26–44.
Published: 01 November 1991
... , 1954 . Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette MARY LYDON Frederic: "Comment vous-appelez vous mademoiselle?" Garance: "Moi, je ne m'appelle jamais, mais les autres m 'appellent Garance. " (Frederic: "What do you call yourself miss?" Garance: "Personally, I never call myself...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of loyalty to Trump in the form of people not getting vaccinated, not taking precautions, often attacking those who did, and throwing themselves away by (simply) dying are collective examples of what Jacques Lacan called the passage à l’acte and are symptoms of a profound decay of political culture...
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A Wider Social Stage
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 117–156.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of a relatively stable ego, then how can psychoanalysis productively contribute to the analysis of the democratic political sphere? This article treats this question through an analysis not only of Sigmund Freud's incursions into what he called “a wider social stage” but also of his daughter's particular...
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Hot and Cool Mothers
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 53–84.
Published: 01 December 2021
... is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered, however; overstimulating mothers, called in this study “hot mothers,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond, class...
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Bare
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Joel Faflak This essay examines Intimacies , structured as an asymmetrical dialogue between two of the most astringent commentators of Freud and psychoanalysis: Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. This dialogue takes place at both the intimate and extimate limits of what Bersani calls impersonal...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Elissa Marder This essay explores how Baudelaire’s insistence on perverse forms of nonreproductive sexuality (what is here called “bad sex”) exposes critical aspects of his poetics and his relation to the question of aesthetics. It takes up two of Baudelaire’s most famous poems (“To the Reader...
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Monstrous Individuations: Deleuze, Simondon, and Relational Ontology
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 179–193.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and yet strictly binds together the two individuations that he calls psychique and collective , which is necessary, he argues, to avoid the double failure of psychologism and sociologism, by which he means the doctrines that assign a fixed (ontological) identity to man and his mind, on the one hand...
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On Touching—the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 206–223.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of being “normalized” and called “immoral,” these particles resist normative notions of physical contact; they are perverse. On the human scale, electrons trouble the notion of touch by making it impossible to close the distance between atoms: the sense of touch paradoxically relies on electric repulsion...
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For Better or Worst: The Social Bond of Hysterics on Strike
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 141–176.
Published: 01 December 2022
... these on the basis of what Freud called the impossible professions: education, governance, and psychoanalysis. For Lacan, these are what he calls discourses, particularly the university discourse (education), the master’s discourse (governing), the analyst’s discourse (psychoanalysis, transforming or revolutionizing...
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Seeing Goddess in Typhoons
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of things across the depths of perception. By considering a set of photographs, this essay demonstrates how the visible world captured by the camera helps reveal what may be called the baroque order of things—a paradise in which things seen and unseen fold and unfold in universal harmony. © 2018 by Brown...
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“Where' Your People From, Girl?”: Belonging to Race, Gender, and Place Beneath Clouds
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., and of race politics in contemporary Australia. In the context of the film, the question “Where' your people from, girl?” implies the recognition of the addressee's indigenous heritage at a time when she has been passing as white. Such a question could be viewed as sexist or racist, as a call to identify...
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Nietzsche/Pentheus: The Last Disciple of Dionysus and Queer Fear of the Feminine
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 90–125.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the feminine—through the appropriation of feminine capacities and qualities for themselves. This appropriation ultimately expresses these men's fear of the erosion of male power and the coherence of distinct gender categories that I call a “queer fear of the feminine.” However, this is neither a sign...
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Feeling Cold: Phenomenology, Spatiality, and the Politics of Sensation
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 May 2013
... through the sensation of cold. Ultimately, the essay contributes to feminist cultural theory by calling on the field to revise its understandings of embodiment, subjectivity, and identity: we are dependent not simply on human others but also on a more-than-human world, a world captured in the thermal...
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Still Turning: Language, “Theory,” And History’s Fascination with the New
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 165–174.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Sylvia Schafer This article reflects on the relief with which mainstream historical scholarship has distanced itself in the last decade or so from serious engagements with the so-called linguistic turn of the later twentieth century. This twenty-first-century repudiation of theory continually...
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Pavlov’s Podcast: The Acousmatic Voice in the Age of Mp3s
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 140–167.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., this serves to either further or obscure, or violently reveal, what I call (in the wake of Roland Barthes) “the aural punctum .” This article explores the importance of such detached voices for simulating, or even summoning, intimacy and presence in a time of long-distance relationships and time-shifted...
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Like a Whisper
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 168–189.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of political reading of whispering, one that emphasizes its disciplinary power in raising questions about our capacity to think the specificity of sound. Thus this essay seeks not only to listen carefully to a sound problem but to bring such listening to bear on what might be called the “sonic boom” or “sonic...
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