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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
... as a central postwar mechanism for intensifying the subject’s productivity and managing the growing anxiety that pervades post-Fordist social life. Highlighting the “refusal of work” that grounds 1960s Italian workerist movements, the essay proposes a corresponding refusal of communication, a form of aesthetic...
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United States of Europe or United Colors of Benetton? Some Feminist Thought on the New Common European Community
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 109–121.
Published: 01 November 1990
... and political community, a feminist intellectual cannot but stop and think. Not unlike Virginia Woolf on the eve of one of Europe's many "community-based" wars, one must take the time to think through some of the many forms taken by the project of unification, and try to analyze the language used to express...
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Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the “Custom” In Turkey
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 172–228.
Published: 01 May 2011
... : Metis Yayınları , 2003 . Zürcher Erik Jan . Turkey: A Modern History . London : I. B. Tauris , 2004 . dicle kog˘ acıog˘ lu
Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community...
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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
... oneself in terms of fixed, hierarchical, and discriminatory categories of gender, race, and family. But given who asks the question and where, this article argues that the question is an offer of community, though not community understood as shared group identity based on mutual recognition...
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Involutionary Momentum: Affective Ecologies and the Sciences of Plant/Insect Encounters
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 74–118.
Published: 01 December 2012
... from—and challenging—Darwinian and neo-Darwinian accounts of orchid-insect contact and controversial research on plant communication, Hustak and Myers demonstrate the interdependence of seemingly unrelated life forms. The evolving entity within this framework is not an individual organism...
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Conundrums in the House of Wailing: Some Scenarios from Sudanese Widows
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf This essay examines widowhood rites and traditions in Northern Muslim Sudan, including those sanctioned by religion (that is, property inheritance and widows’ internment) and those endorsed by local communities. The microhistorical ethnographic accounts in this essay...
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On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing Glove
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering. Emerging from techniques of “the material voice” in deaf oral education, hearing gloves were increasingly applied to voice standardization and efficient transmission. Contrary to scholarship that emphasizes...
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The Brave Side of Digital Humanities
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Fiona M. Barnett The question of “what counts?” in a field is an important component of community formation and is critical for eking out resources in the academic ecosystem. But what is the effect when the conversation is not about recognizing similarity across differences or disparity in order...
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Blacks of the Marrying Kind: Marriage Rites and the Right to Marry in the Time of Slavery
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille Marriage , like family , has been a contested term in African American historical, sociological, and cultural studies. This essay surveys and interrogates the dominant literature on black intimacy, coupling, and family life in the slave community from the publication of E. Franklin...
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Something Old, Something New: Black Women, Interracial Dating, and the Black Marriage Crisis
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... In arguments that illuminate contemporary perspectives on long-standing debates among blacks about when and how to put down the burdens of history; racial identity and authenticity; the loyalty an individual owes to the community; and gender roles and responsibilities, this new advocacy literature urges black...
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Seductions of the “Honor Crime”
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... cultural violence; the elements of popular fantasy that animate it; the forms of modern state and transnational power the category occludes; and the ahistorical and divisive civilizational thinking it encourages. Drawing both on ethnography from one Egyptian Bedouin community in which honor is a key moral...
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Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Pontine Marshes
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 94–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg Fascism’s success in building communities and structures of conviviality was for many years avoided by the critical scholarship on Italian fascism. More recently, however, fascist land reclamation has become a favored topic in Italian historiographical revisionism: it has...
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The Native Performant: Linguistic Authority in the Text of Romantic Orientalism
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 109–141.
Published: 01 September 2010
... rather than a tool of communication. These scenes of linguistic triumphalism, the essay contends, highlight the double performativity of orientalist discourse: orientalism both performs and by performing enacts the West's power of command over the East. Brown University and differences : A Journal...
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Rethinking Sexual Difference and Kinship in Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
...” laws of sexual difference, which are not merely reproduced from one generation to the next, do not persist without alteration. The trajectory of psychic contents is not unwavering, and what is relayed into the present is only communicated with translations, transpositions, and deviations that leave...
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Freud’s Australia
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kathleen Frederickson While the nineteenth-century consolidation of the anthropological culture concept shifted ethnological interests away from the figure of the solitary “savage” to wider structures of communal governance, it nonetheless accommodated the eighteenth-century caricatures...
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On Homosexual Reproduction
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 101–130.
Published: 01 May 2012
... successfully than heterosexual reproduction. In response, queer communities increasingly claim that homosexuality is immutable and essential, citing scientists’ theories of biological determinism to support the more colloquial notion that they are born gay. Many such theories, however, share the evolutionary...
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Like a Whisper
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 168–189.
Published: 01 December 2011
...John Mowitt This essay proposes that we grasp whispering as a problem, a sound source haunted by the violent exclusion of the animal from the medium of communication. Justification for this proposition is provided by examining the intertwining of whispering, allegory, and trauma, especially...
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Women on Fire: Immolation, Consent, and the Revolutionary Subject
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 63–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Poulomi Saha The years between 1930 and 1933 saw a dramatic rise in anticolonial violence in Bengal. Young women who participated in this violence, caught between competing masculinist discourses of colonial authorities and nationalist communities that deemed them either dupes or martyrs...
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The Resistance to Overanalysis
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Corey McEleney “The Resistance to Overanalysis” carefully analyzes the rhetoric that the business community, the self-help industry, and mass culture more generally use to pathologize overanalysis as an unhelpful, counterproductive practice that inhibits people’s efforts at reaching their goals...
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The Dark Side of Digital Humanities: Dispatches from Two Recent mla Conventions
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 May 2014
... eager to fund DH projects, create DH undergraduate and graduate programs, and hire DH faculty. And because there is no sign that these funding streams are going to dry up any time soon, there is great potential for increased tension between the “haves” of the digital humanities community and the “have...
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