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... . MARJORIE GARBER Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender The JVlaserati I picked up in Modena was a reconditioned model. Previously owned, the car had been lovingly rebuilt by the craftsman who had original(r made it. The guarantee uJas the same as if it had been new. My auto'nobile seemed...

... Ontology . London: Verso, 1999 . ewa plonowska ziarek The Abstract Soul of the Commodity and the Monstrous Body of the Sphinx: Commodifi cation, Aesthetics, and the Impasses of Social Construction...

... : Johns Hopkins UP , 1986 . GEORGIA NlGE:\T This Sex Which Is Not One: De-Constructing Ovid's Hermaphrodite Alyth flourishes at the point u'here the social and psychoanalytic overlap, redolent offascination and an.1~'iet..r and generating both creative energy (stories, images) and the "taming...

... in the clinic but as a first-rate foray into “speculative philosophy”: an attempt to locate a “real” that is not given empirically and that therefore demands to be constructed (30). Like Jacques Lacan, who has developed the thesis of the death drive more fully than any other reader of Freud, Deleuze invites us...

... Translated by Alexander Des Forges Yin and Yang in and out of Equilibrium: Women’s Revenge and the Construction of Han (202 bce–220 ce) and Wei (220–265 ce) Culture Accounts of women from the Ming (1368–1644 ce) and Qing (1644–1911 ce...

...Matthew Kirschenbaum Taking as self-evident that the “dark side” under discussion is a discursive construct of the digital humanities rather than “actually existing projects” (a clarifying phrase taken from Rita Raley’s post- mla comments), this essay suggests that the construct is too often...

... the construction of the supersensual reality of the death drive in masochistic fantasy and in fetishistic disavowal, exploring their affinity not only with art and aesthetics but with mathematical and formal constructions. Both help to elucidate Freud’s early insight that the death drive is more mathematical than...

... narratives of sovereignty, which construct and shape who holds ultimate authority within a given territory. © 2020 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 credit markets debt repayment odious debt sovereign debt nonstatist sovereignty statist sovereignty...

...Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg This article investigates the problematic relationship between psychoanalysis and politics. Specifically, it wonders if an inherent conflict exists between these two domains. If psychoanalysis has as its central object the unconscious, and politics the construction...

... in turn corresponds to a technical nonproductivity inscribing certain constructions of the aural spectacle in philosophies and theories of film sound. Blue 's model of aural spectacularization is then linked to Michel Foucault's remarks on speakability/unspeakability, voice, and listening in The History...

...Judith Butler Returning to Juliet Mitchell’s own rereading of her account of sexual difference, this article takes up the question of how structures of kinship—along with the laws of sexual difference that constitute them—are transmitted. According to Mitchell, the construction of sexual difference...

... without centralized control or the provision of a global model.” Such a vision constructs a benign and beneficent swarm that, although it lacks differentiation and specificity, accomplishes democracy without sovereignty. Achille Mbembe points out, nonetheless, that the swarm can have a more sinister...

...Xiao Liu This essay focuses on the cinematic form of revolutionary melodrama, or, more specifically, on alterations made to family melodrama in the construction of the big socialist family as an imagined social space. Reading Red Detachment of Women (1961) in the tradition of family melodrama...

... for the office of president of the United States. Challenging the practical application of theoretical claims of race as a social construction, “Can’t You See I’m White?” explores the ways in which their racial and gender “difference” from the typical roster of white males seeking the presidency has made some...

...—that do not necessarily “fit” with each other. In order to make this theoretical argument, the essay dwells on the figure of Kenneth Halliwell, the boyfriend and eventual murderer of the British playwright, Joe Orton. It examines archival materials in order to construct a microgenealogy of Halliwell...

...Jake Silver This article explores the shape of queer sexual habits and gendered forms of desire along the Jerusalem light rail, a route whose role in normalizing Israeli occupation and colonialism has been hotly contested during its construction and since its opening in 2011. Analyzing how...

...Anna Kornbluh This essay argues that a specifically psychoanalytic theory of solidarity underscores its symbolic dimension. While other traditions conceive solidarity as primarily action or affect, psychoanalytic emphases on free association, punctuation, and construction opens onto a theory...

...—that has structured the psychoanalytic social bond from the origins of the talking cure. In putting the subject to grips with the disorienting effects of intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis constructs an ethical relation grounded in the illocutionary enactment of the subject’s negativity, sustaining a bond...

...Joshua Falek Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading...

... theory of bisexuality through the intermediary of Otto Weininger, however, Lacan formalizes the impasse between the feminine as what mobilizes the drive and the ego as it is constructed in language. Lacan’s reading of logical form in Wittgenstein opens to a writing of the drive in its relationship...