...Ranjana Khanna This article discusses disposability in light of what psychoanalysis can offer to an analysis of that term, understood as a contemporary characteristic of the human and its liminal condition. The essay questions why a program of social change is demanded of psychoanalysis but also...

...Karl Schoonover Max Ophuls’s Hollywood films from the late 1940s, including the noir feature The Reckless Moment , take disposability as a central problem. This essay argues that these films attribute an obdurate presence to objects, often foregrounding the dominance of clutter over the agency...

... to trafficking in migrant laborers. The article posits a model of salability, based on disposable life and recycled humanity, where entry into the market as either subject or object is the condition of survival in the modern security regime. Against a terrain of precariously asserted and suspended subjectivity...

... between “you” and “I” and enabling a deeper consideration of what escapes. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 brown jouissance disposability Judith Butler interiority racial capitalism recognition Wilmer Wilson...

... the necessity to advocate for a humanism with one adjective or the other. According to Athanasiou, mourning is never truly phoné (77). That is, mourning for a deceased or disappeared being is, at the same time, a critical denunciation of the trivialization of the disposability of certain humans who have...

... wealth be accumulated by disposing of women? Is a marriage system part of a system of stratification? (207) Such questions raise other important issues as well: are men also disposed of in marriage? Do women participate in forging marital alliances? What is the relationship between marital alliances...

... “disposed” of hers. Either they were not important enough to him, or he was afraid of his wife’s jealousy. There are also published correspondences with Kurt Blumenfeld, with Hermann Broch, with Gershom Scholem, 5 and with many others, whose letters we were able to consult in the archive at the New...

... (namely, those who understand and practice their humanity differently) as less than human is the precondition for reducing whole sectors of the human population to interchangeable, disposable part objects. Whether it takes something...

... to the disposal of human waste, and on the other hand, its euphoric celebration of planned obsolescence and an economy dependent on a cycle of continually discarded and replenished merchandise. Streamlining...

... of the ‘with,’ or the ‘with’ of meaning”—one would no longer need to oppose ethics to ontology and could, rather, claim that “the ‘ethical’ exposes what the ‘ontological’ disposes” ( Nancy 98–99 ). The Levinasian emphasis on sociality, however, inverts Heidegger’s hierarchy in ways that complicate the indistinction of the ethical...

... involved in and committed to the task ofredesigning sexuality. The invisibility ofthe lesbian as other ofthe other is of a different conceptual and qualitative order. For one thing, within patriarchy, we do not dispose of any political myth or foundational narrative that assigns to female homosexuality...

... 141 ). With most people having a pocket computer at their disposal, the reach of media is unprecedented, whereas an academic education is becoming increasingly hard to afford. I am encouraged by more Black feminists using their theorizing on sex and sexuality beyond the classroom. Hammonds’s work...

... has led some to reject the entire idea of sexual difference and to dispose with the signifier "woman" altogether. These tensions form an historical contradiction: that the signifier "woman" be both the concept around which feminists have gathered in a political movement where the politics of identity...

... in the hiring process were dispensed with through an illegal hiring practice. The winner of the hiring process, a male enemy of the hegemonic discourse of the college, was disposed of as mad. The dyke was a silent witness who at least remembered to exchange tenure for a vote. The dyke was in the room, the only...

..., it is an object that he doesn’t know what to do with, that must be disposed of somehow and that has no real value, no utility: as such, it becomes the gift par excellence, what is “generously” offered up precisely because one must get rid...

... the “functional meaning of things and events, for it has time at its disposal, it can contract it and thus show the development, the evolution of things” (Struggle 47).19 What is rejected here is the mere recording...

... shaded and oblique poetics of language as difference, political as much as psychic, in order to start thin king the question of how the body of the effaced Other—ultimately disposable and transposable—emerges, albeit...

.... “ Private Groups Spearhead Anti-Trafficking Efforts .” u.s. Department of State. 14 Feb. 2007 . http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070213141131atiayduj0.7887537 . Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy...

.... The question, so important to many of Althusser’s critics and followers, 11 is why one should ever respond in this way and turn when addressed: what is the desire that disposes one to find and found subjectivity in and through the way one is addressed by another? This question is not discussed here perhaps...

... such and such an instrument rather than another) because it promotes an instrumentalist conception of music. Likewise, the word bruit, similarly vague, promotes a segregationist conception of the sonic universe. The French language has at its disposal...