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...Tani E. Barlow This essay solders together a historical case study of advertising on the China mainland in the early twentieth century with a series of generalizable appraisals and determinations to establish how the catachresis woman is evental. The event of women emerged historically in part...

..., Janet. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914 . Cambridge:Cambridge UP, 1985 . Phillips, Adam. Terrors and Experts . London: Faber & Faber, 1995 . Rose, Jacqueline. “`Where Does the Misery Come From?'Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event.” Why War...

.... “A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event.” Trans. Gila Walker. Critical Inquiry 33 (Winter 2007 ): 441 -61. Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans . Berkeley: u of California p, 2006 . McCoy, Minnie [Memphis Minnie], and Joe McCoy. “When the Levee...

... Philosophy of History . Cambridge: Harvard up, 1965 . de Certeau, Michel. “The Fiction of History: The Writing of Moses and Monotheism.” The Writing of History . Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia up, 1988 . 308 -54. Franko, Mark, ed. Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . New York...

... and Sovereignty in the New World , is forthcoming with Fordham University Press in 2008. Arvin, Newton. Herman Melville . Westport: Greenwood, 1950 . Badiou, Alain. Being and Event . 1988 . Trans. Oliver Feltham. London: Continuum, 2005. ———. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil . Trans...

... . rebecca wanzo The Era of Lost (White) Girls: On Body and Event There is nothing particularly unusual cares about the LaToyia Figueroa case about [LaToyia Figueroa’s] case. She is because it has nothing to do with the an inner-city...

.... 2001 : A8 . Nora, Pierre. “Le Retour de l'événement.” Faire de l'histoire vol. 1. Nouveaux problèmes . Ed. Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora. Paris:Gallimard, 1974 . 219 –29. ———. “The Return of the Event.” Histories: French Constructions of the Past . Ed. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt. New York...

... and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 2005 . andrew aisenberg Bourdieu, Ambiguity, and the Significance of Events Historians and Events...

... to Foucaultian genealogy, an Irigarayan ethics of eros, and a new kind of synthesis of narrative and performative. Also important to the work is an emphasis on ethics understood in terms of desubjectivation and of the Foucaultian event. Rethinking the meaning of the performative in this context, this essay asks...

... of representation, can one then say that representations are theories? Drawing on the work of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Žižek, this essay explores these questions through the notion of the event, considering how our theories manage the terror of the contingency of events. Psychoanalysis...

...Elizabeth Grosz This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events...

... remains cogent, this article argues, for a field in which individual events and texts and large-scale social and political formations are often bound together by no framework other than their putative belonging to one and the same block of time—that is, a period. Aiming to reform this concept in order...

... oppositions: wakefulness/sleep; inside/outside; cause/disruption of causality; floating/fixation, location/dislocation; time/space; one/multiple; duration/intermittency, sound/silence; subject/Other; reality/fantasy, meaningless/meaning; sound/voice; “being and time,” “being and nothingness,” “being and event...

...Peter Szendy Narrativity and indebtedness are inextricably intertwined. Absolvere , in Latin, means both to “pay off” a debt and to “relate” a historical event that has reached its conclusion, that is complete ( absolutum ). In the Arabian Nights , Scheherazade tells many stories about debt...

... arenas. Conventional understandings of international finance fail to address the complexities of who should repay sovereign state debt and whose assets should be collected in the event of nonpayment. For answers to these inquiries, the narrative of debt needs to be understood as embedded within...

... revolutionaries. Providing a media history and theory of this event, the article argues that the typewriter—both woman and machine—was an active militant who cut texts and bodies to advance the revolutionary cause. The typewriter denaturalized assumptions about the newspaper’s colonial appearance, thus bringing...

... for an event to be renarrated, to Butler’s theory. Renarration engenders recursive inconsistencies rife with queer potential. Through renarration, one can compose a scene of redress that revises the violent and otherwise life-denying contours of narratability itself. As an example, the essay turns to Danez...

... events. In this light, the author considers Kleinian notions of phantasy and biology, especially the effects hunger has on the formation of the mind in the very young infant. Reading with Melanie Klein's literal mindedness, the author suggests that the confluence of physiology and phantasy in Klein's...