.... pamela l. caughie The Example of Barbara Johnson The example is not substitutable; but at the same time the same aporia always remains: this irreplaceability must be exemplary, that is, replaceable...

... change. This article examines three examples of social tie that are structured around the desire of the founder and the anxiety it induces: the interdiction of sacrifice and the worship of an absent God in the religion of Moses, the role of the transference in Freud's invention of psychoanalysis...

...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...

... exhibition forwards a notably distinct version of what counts as “revolutionary” feminist politics. Hayes argues ultimately for an interpretation of Leigh’s work as a prefigurative, utopian feminism that demands more—for example, than mere inclusion—from progressive institutions and feminist art. © 2020...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines the relevance of the concept of biopower and its four seminal figures (the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the masturbating child, and the perverse adult) to our understanding of current formations of late liberal power. Through the example...

..., showing that he eventually came to use the example of the fetus to exemplify what he meant by the “union” of mind and body. Although Descartes is usually considered a dualist, particularly in feminist criticism, he took for granted that we experience ourselves as mind/body composites. The fetus presented...

... and transforming philosophies in light of their constitutive exclusions. An example of this, explored here, is Irigaray's expansion and transformation of Merleau-Ponty's late ontology of flesh in light of its constitutive exclusion, the “maternal sojourn.” This article also asks whether rhythmic sexual difference...

.... As such, it is difficult to locate within a precise topography and may require us to rethink the conditions of address and reception at work in the notions of “acquisition” or “transmission.” This essay analyzes two of the examples that Mitchell offers for understanding the historical acquisition of unconscious ideas...

..., and of sex work, at this moment? Concluding with contemporary examples from the 1990s and 2000s, the author investigates ongoing questions of privilege, power, and social worth in artistic projects regarding sex work. I tested out some initial ideas on this subject at the 2006 College Art Association...

... of Althusser’s own practice of theory (in its ambivalent relation to structuralism), it concludes, on the other, that no genuine reworking is possible of the historical horizon we all presuppose, apart from the revival of theory or one of its avatars or successors. As in Althusser’s example, theory’s task...

... sonic phenomena. The continued use of the term timbre reveals less an investment in objectivity than an ongoing attachment to sonic origins and traditional instrumentation—an attachment that extended techniques and electronic manipulation, for example, have revealed as conceptually outmoded and thus...

... sonic phenomena. The continued use of the term timbre reveals less an investment in objectivity than an ongoing attachment to sonic origins and traditional instrumentation—an attachment that extended techniques and electronic manipulation, for example, have revealed as conceptually outmoded and thus...

... replicated contradiction between feminist emancipatory struggles and gender/race melancholia—evident, for example, in current discussions of vulnerability and resilience, or negative and recuperative readings—as two inseparable dimensions of the transformative potential inherent in feminist aesthetic...

..., or thought; it acts, powerfully, in the real world. As in Europe today, the pressure of debts is related to a lack of credit for democracy and the future. Among the many examples of this relationship, the paper highlights Resistance Is Useless ( Resistere non serve a niente ), a novel by Walter Siti. So...

... for talking in the clinic, the essay also takes up the example of the Hollywood film Pitch Perfect , which understands multivocal speech in music as a venue for solidarity. The magnetic field of the solidary signifier may be more admissible, or more readily palpable, in art, that mode of symbolization...

...Eleanor Kaufman While Leo Bersani makes repeated stringent critiques of relationality and other-oriented sexuality, drawing on an array of literary examples including Gide, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet, he evinces a somewhat ambiguous relation to the question of sadism and to sadism’s inherent...

... is replete with asexual encounters. In other words, it is not Adonis alone who spurns sexual romance. Venus’s insatiable kissing is a textbook example of Freud’s point about the paradoxicality of sex: when it comes to the pleasures of kissing, Freud says, “It’s a pity I can’t kiss myself.” This essay reads...

... of loyalty to Trump in the form of people not getting vaccinated, not taking precautions, often attacking those who did, and throwing themselves away by (simply) dying are collective examples of what Jacques Lacan called the passage à l’acte and are symptoms of a profound decay of political culture...

... in different social and environmental contexts, and I give some examples of this in the book in question. So yes, I suppose gender is a concept sometimes applicable to nonhuman societies. But on the whole, it is probably better to use the phrase sex-related rather than gender , in part because animals don’t...

... seminal essay in 1994, there have been innumerable examples of the ongoing illegibility of black female sexuality. While examples from academic scholarship provided fodder for Hammonds’s investigation, the essence of her argument also applies to popular culture. From the relative invisibility of black...