Search Results for extension

...Alanna Thain This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS , dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe...

..., race, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children. The author...

..., in their preoccupation with scenes Oedipal and object based, occlude to some extent a ``feminine'' perspective and by extension significant ``feminine''/transgender insights concerning sexual difference. Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2010...

...Briankle G. Chang As an extension of the eye, the camera writes the light according to its own inhuman, mechanical terms. The photographic ability to describe the world objectively not only renders indistinguishable the perceptible and the imperceptible but also makes visible the hidden commerce...

...Chase Gregory Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012) presents an interesting challenge to literary critics: as an object that extensively theorizes itself, it leaves little room for interpretation beyond its surface-level claims. This article reads against the grain...

... the black (w)hole, contributors chart the history, present, and futurity of Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes,” and, by extension, the black diasporic feminist, lesbian, queer, and trans intellectual and sociopolitical life-worlds in its wake. If part of the critical promise of the black (w)hole metaphor...

... 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...

... of capitalism, state bureaucracy, armed conflict, or familial practice prevalent in Turkey's public sphere. Drawing on extensive archival research and fieldwork, the author argues that the recent focus on the “custom” is symptomatic of a shift from a developmentalist/assimilationist to a cultural/racial...

... (case-dependent), and so Prince’s function as an extension of Pringle’s testimony is reified by the court’s mandate to determine whose honor has been harmed by the narrative. The dual roles shared by both Thomases fuse their appearance in the juridical instance, despite the ostensibly distinct political...

... thought or wayward feeling or unconscious impulse rather than seeking to yoke these impersonal ephemera to a personalized thinker; trusting in the chance that sometimes the aesthetic experience renders us porous and extensive, and because of that we are liable to encounter ourselves or rather pieces...

... to a reading of Plato’s Symposium that is as careful as it is quirky. From that text, he tries to sense other ways of conceptualizing, foundationally, the self seen as a form and extension of connectedness. This is not connectedness that first spans a chasm of difference; such a spanning might want to create...

... this taut stretching or extension. To put it a bit differently, Lacan here maintains that what grounds the certainty of existence is not the stolidity of a point, but the instability of a teetering movement that detonates the I’s (or the je ’s) punctuality. The je of the cogito, Lacan puns, is replaced...

... See my article “The Political Lives of Avatars: Play and Democracy in Virtual Worlds” for a more extensive discussion of the simultaneously “real” and “virtual” nature of self-avatar subjectivity in relation to World of Warcraft ’s dismantling of the play/labor and time/space binaries. 10...

... in the Antilles and America” ( Graeber 150 ). This extensive system of credit remained in place for a long time so that when the Manchester mills became known in the nineteenth century as “Cottonopolis,” they drew from the credit system put in place by the Atlantic slave trade. 4 Within this extensive system...

... and their differentiated survival and extension in the contemporary world remain in play. This profusion of sounds and variations is also accompa- nied by a cultural and historical dissemination that betrays present-day national confines: Kurdish music...

... of externality. Descartes affirms this position in several passages throughout his corpus. In The World or Treatise on Light and Optics, he argues extensively against the resemblance between images in the mind and the things they represent. In the Optics, Descartes introduces the case of touch, in which...

..., the communication of news and cultural patterns, etc. This interdependency has an extensive aspect: the "limits" or "extremities of the world" have now been reached by various modes of exploration, or the expansion of dominant, unified techniques and institutions have incorporated "all parts of the world." It has...

... device that operates as a political action, ping is “the extension” of the emperor, who is the embodiment of imperial sovereignty. 12 Ping and its spatial/visual unison with the emperor are thus the display and performance of the sovereign. Ping as a symbol for imperial sovereignty has been well...

... it might have been said with some frisson, “We are all multicultural now,” the contemporary extension of that phrase is, “We are all targets.” It is more and more difficult to distinguish oneself from an other, and it is impossible...

... sense of the words. Or does the appearance of a ray of light qualify as direct physical contact, even perhaps as a material “extension” of the light source? Does light “touch” the object upon which it shines? Is a lit surface...