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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... 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...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 94–121.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Dominik Zechner That forgetfulness constitutes a force detrimental to the ability of keeping promises is commonplace. Promises rely on a stable memory; in order to be realized they must be sheltered from the onslaught of oblivion. This article takes a closer look at the mutual exclusivity...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 May 2023
... exclusionary sexual desire: an implicated, indiscriminate fascination with the world’s appearances, indifferent to the psychology of desire. [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 exclusion fascination homo-ness self-identity...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 136–165.
Published: 01 December 2017
... association between finance and prostitution, this essay unearths the gendered aspect of capitalism. In capitalism gender relations are formally excluded from the sphere of exchange. The traditional notion of marriage as a purchase of a wife has become obscene, but its obscenity attests that its exclusion...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 32–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ann duCille During its formative years—its short happy life in the latter decades of the twentieth century—black feminist criticism focused almost exclusively on literature by and about black women, a body of work it claimed as its own “precious” private property. This essay uses a foreign body...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 149–160.
Published: 01 May 2010
... differences marks the inescapable turning away from the absence, the difference from identity, the insistence of exclusion as such that difference tries to address. Arguing in this way against certain versions of historicism and multiculturalism, the author refers back to the moment when the journal...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 161–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
... elsewhere to places “not there”—to the exclusions or excessive remainders that haunt thought. This interpretation of difference is brought to bear on the work of Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, where sameness is posited as an extension into (rather than a retreat from) otherness. The essay concludes...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... enabled it to emerge as a robust category implicated in projects that include the policing and exclusions of immigrants; nation-states' disciplinary penetration of rural and urban subaltern communities; dominance by specific national, ethnic, or class groups; manipulation of liberal values in the service...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 142–172.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and trauma respectively. For Walker, compulsive repetition becomes a way to elucidate the equivocal logic of contemporary identity politics, which consigns the socially marginalized to the contradictory practice of affirming the very identities on which their historical exclusion has been based. Concerned...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 168–189.
Published: 01 December 2011
...John Mowitt This essay proposes that we grasp whispering as a problem, a sound source haunted by the violent exclusion of the animal from the medium of communication. Justification for this proposition is provided by examining the intertwining of whispering, allegory, and trauma, especially...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 132–155.
Published: 01 May 2014
... multilingualism. It is only more recently that a nominally newer formation based more exclusively in departments of English studies has re-presented us with comparative literature’s methodological counterpart or other, and with its own intellectual and also ethical challenges. That formation is the digital...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2015
... theoretical archive into a field-forming synthesis. In part 2, the authors offer a more studied consideration of the character of norms. By articulating the difference between a norm and the terms that often define it—domination, homogenization, exclusion, hegemony, identity, or more colloquially...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Étienne Balibar The essay offers a series of reflections on the place of violence in politics and, at the same time, on the ways in which the relation between what might be understood as mutually exclusive categories (violence ceases where politics begins and vice versa) has been theorized...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Lee Edelman Taking queerness as one of the figural names for ontological exclusion (that is, for whatever a particular regime of social being forecloses), this essay focuses on how such a queerness effects an impossible pedagogy that aspires to teach us nothing. Rather than a site of emptiness...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2019
... as a structuring absence on which canons of exclusion—from legal rights to representational politics and the sympathetic imagination—are built. © 2019 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2019 M. NourbeSe Philip Zong feminist literary criticism experimental...
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 May 2002
... (perhaps even exclusive) and impersonal. As a workspace, the classroom necessarily entails a relation to the unfamiliar, the as- yet-unknown, the potentially difficult. Its very existence testifies that common sense is not enough...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 87–128.
Published: 01 July 1998
..., including the nature of exclusions that accompany boundary projects.1 Agential realism entails a reformulation of both ofits terms-"agency" and "realism"-and provides an understanding of the role of human and nonhuman factors in the production of knowledge, thereby moving considerations of epistemic...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 228–234.
Published: 01 May 2023
...), “Est-ce qu’il en est?” means “Is he one of them?” But it is just this division of the world between us and them that the question, regardless of who is asking it, would seductively underwrite: it presupposes the mutual exclusiveness of homosexuals and heterosexuals as categories—Proust, in fact...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2019
... irrelevant. In the eyes of early American law, enslaved people in general lacked a reasonable will (except in the context of their own criminality) (Hartman) and, as I have argued elsewhere, enslaved women in particular lacked the capacity to consent or withhold consent from sex. 5 The exclusion of white...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2008
... or presuppose a com- mon gender identity. When suffragettes reinterpret the right to vote as the right to revolt, they not only negate their exclusion from existing liberties but also demand a positive...