...: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974 . ____. Critique of Judgment . Trans. and ed. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987 . ____. Critique of Pure Reason . Trans. and ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997 . ____. Gesammelte Schriften . Ed. Königliche Preußiche Akademie der...

... . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1999 . eugenie brinkema with composition by Evan Johnson Critique of Silence The regime of silence draws to itself the puzzlement of silence...

... of subjection and subjectivation in terms of interpellation and counterinterpellation offered by Judith Butler as early as 1997. In this essay, “performative” dimensions of Althusser’s critique of ideology are presented as a singular moment of crystallization within an open trajectory, leading from...

... there not merely as object to be critiqued but also, more surprisingly, as an instrument of critique. “Althusser’s essay is an astonishing counter-Hegelian reformulation of Hegel himself” (8). I take this to suggest that floating somewhere in the background of the Piccolo Teatro essay, and of Balibar’s as well...

...Azeen Khan This essay explores how, in each of Jacques Derrida’s late encounters with psychoanalysis, he critiques the limit of a certain economic principle of the Freudian death drive, opening up its deterministic logic to a principle of indetermination. The essay draws out three key terms...

... since the 1990s, the two scholars shift their focus to the problematic articulations between the social sciences and biology that have shaped one of the most important critiques to emerge from gender studies in the last twenty-five years. Works Cited Azul David . “ How Do Voices Become...

...Elizabeth Weed The essay asks what current thinking about gender has to do with the rather widespread claims that critique is finally dead. In posing that question, it asks what gender and a putatively exhausted critique have to do with the logic of capital as it appears to us in these times...

... to everyday conversation and listening. Because it is embedded in all stages of contemporary sound production, reproduction, and reception, it has remained an elusive subject for critique. This essay considers the poetics of audio signal processing—the figural dimensions of the technical process...

...Ani Maitra In radical Lacanian cultural critique, affirmations of unconscious desire and the reinvention of the symbolic order are frequently founded upon dismissals of the imaginary ego and its paranoid obsessions with meaning, coherence, and identity politics. By bringing Lacan’s theorization...

...Vicki Kirby Metaphysical terms like science, matter, nature , and reality have always been in limbo in critical theory; scholars have deconstructed and problematized and critiqued them, yet they still will not go away. Debates over science’s relationship to discourse and knowledge particularly...

... and Klein's 1940s writing on mourning and the fear of death. Between them, Freud and Klein produce a compelling narrative about what it means to live in fear not only of death, which is where Freud begins his critique of the normalizing pathologies of war at the beginning of the century, but also of one's own...

... of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and is usually considered the most important period for the establishment of the socialist regime and political system. The essay builds on the premise that since the 1980s, gendered critiques of the Seventeen-Year Period, by applying imported gender theory, have tended to treat...

...Filippo Del Lucchese Starting with Gilbert Simondon's theory of the individual (singular and collective) and its genesis, developed in his book L'individuation psychique et collective , this article discusses the principle of individuation and the critique of finalism. Simondon distinguishes...

... and becoming happy, successful citizens. Focusing on the persistent stereotype that associates academics and intellectuals (particularly in the humanities) with overanalysis, the essay offers a critique of the anti-intellectual conventions that underlie denunciations of overanalysis. It also demonstrates how...

... of the Black Radical tradition, the author argues for the importance of connecting the analysis of ontological difference with the political critique of concrete historical and material conditions that structurally link what it means to be human to overlapping and mutually reinforcing technologies of capture...

..., “The Short Happy Life” has been a popular target of mainstream feminist critique. Far less attention has been paid to the story's racial dynamics, despite its African setting and the crucial role that both race and class, that is, “whiteness” and white privilege, play in advancing the narrative. Racializing...

... entailed not just a widening of focus but a critique of psychoanalysis as ahistorical and an abandonment of the notion of sexual difference in favor of gender. Gender, Copjec argues in this paper, is a neutered term; it eliminates sex. It is time, this essay proposes, to provide an ontological reflection...

... are driven by a certain kind of pleasure, the essay looks at two genres—that of “exuberant critique” and that of “expansive system-building”—but finds theoretical pleasure only in a third genre: the form of criticism that embraces contradiction and incorporates it into its very practice. Brown University...

... Frazier’s influential study The Negro Family in the United States in 1939 to the recent appearance of Tera Hunter’s monumental monograph Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century . Critiquing the masculinist bend of much of this scholarship, “Blacks of the Marrying Kind...

...Irving Goh This essay presents a critique of Luce Irigaray’s contribution to Through Vegetal Being , one of several contemporary theoretical works involving a “turn to plant life.” Irigaray there adopts a “reject” position drawn from her intellectual life that she sees as well in plant life, still...