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... difference. “Keeping” house, then, is figured in leaving it, at a formal level of indistinction between inside and outside. At this level, the novel suggests a model for thinking agency, or decision, predicated on the uncertainty of identification and the need for self-critical reflection on the thetic...

...Jacques Khalip This article concentrates on the substance of audition in Derek Jarman's Blue . In his last feature film, Jarman makes a decisive ethical and aesthetic break: he shifts value away from the overdetermined cultural premiums associated with the visual ``spectacle'' and onto...

..., truthfully. At the Greek inception of the politics-philosophy nexus, Foucault argues, psychagogy offered a tekhne for governing this conjoint truth practice and thereby affecting its decisions, even while remaining “nonpolitical.” By tracing some of Foucault’s ideas about the ways that truth, life, politics...

...Ann duCille The introduction to this special issue of difference s uses the examples of Antoney and Isabella, the first Africans to marry in the new world, and Dred and Harriet Scott, slaves whose legal marriage is at the heart of arguably the most infamous Supreme Court decision of all time...

... with regard to the relative lack of a visual record of the period. All three films profited from troves of personal letters. Von Trotta describes her slow “falling in love” with Arendt, a process abetted by the discovery of Arendt’s vulnerability. The decision to focus on the years of the Eichmann trial...

... such hierarchies. The decision, morality, hierarchy, and war are all of a piece in these critiques of liberalism. Decisionism is also one of the means by which the exception to law is authorized. One of the most obvious...

...: A minor child who is fortuitously born here due to his parents’ decision to reside in this country, has not exercised a deliberate decision to make this country his home, and Congress did not give...

... our desires for happiness and to restrict our responses to the actualities of production, parenting, and sexuality. The proper family that Judge Harvey Sorkow defended in his Superior Court decision is nuclear, and above all else, economically self-sufficient, so that it seems separate from state...

..., conservative scholars have welcomed the Court’s decision to halt the recount, characterizing it as based on sound legal reasoning, above the political fray, and hence legitimate, while liberal scholars have characterized it as politically...

...-this autothanatography-through a death that is and is not properly my own. I had an abortion. This statement mimics "I had a child," calling to memory a future I chose not to live. An abortion is a decision, a division, a split. It is the possibility of doing life and death at the same time. It means that a part of me...

... and theoretical discussion it would incite. Unlike secularism, parity does not divide France along the traditional fault line separating right and left. Numerous surveys have shown that public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of parity. When it comes to implementing it, however, a majority of those in decision...

... transitive logic begins with the observation that for-profit entities cannot use religion as a basis for personnel decisions. This means, unless their human resources divisions are running afoul of antidiscrimination law, all workplaces will necessarily have some religious heterogeneity. How, then, could...

... in American Life . Princeton : Harpercollins , 1990 . Hadley Eleanor M. Antitrust in Japan . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1970 . “ Historic Decision for Equality .” Life ( 31 May 1955 ): 11 – 16 . Hu Arthur . “ Asian Americans: Model Minority or Double Minority? ” Amerasia...

... as an untrustworthy deviant whose purported con artistry causes Norman to revoke the lease. Pose gives its viewers ample opportunity to sympathize with Blanca by presenting several situations and moments that expose some of her most endearing complexities. For example, consider her decision to actively care...

... colors and antinomically juxtaposed with the “other,” the noninfringing corporate advertisement. The zero sum of judicial decisions becomes a zero viewing, a lackluster zetetic that fails to open to the images, to stay with the colors, to apprehend the implexity of color, image, and representation...

.... We need to state that they collectively reached the decision to stay at home on what was supposed to be a regular working day. [. . .] Thus, beyond dealing with the workers as actors...

... decision or choice that is made in the present. In contrast to the ordinary historicist conception of time as an endless succession of “nows,” the past does not simply determine the present and future in a mechanical fashion. Rather, for both Heidegger and Benjamin, according to Žižek, the past returns...

.... Moreover, that decisive moment raises a vital theoretical question: how does one recognize the accumulating outcome of this rhizomatic evil and on what basis does one draw the boundary between cooperation, resistance, and inaction? If evil is produced and distributed rhizomatically, regimes could...

... was unaware that when she was born, her parents made the decision to physically alter her sex at birth in order to raise her as a boy. She explains that, upon hearing this news from her half-sister, she was “pissed”: not only was Stallworth misrecognized from the outset of her life but her agency was also...

... the risks that go along with that. If a politically minded theory (or the ethicopolitical) might recognize politics as instantiated in the moment of the decision, as Derrida has discussed in relation to Carl Schmitt,3 then it is worth...