... with. But Milken saw a golden opportunity in high-yield bonds, and using portfolio theories of diversification, it really did not matter if some companies (whose debt you had bought) defaulted on the bonds, that is, if some of the junk bonds, as the jargon goes, blew up in your face. And so, in 1977, his trading...

...Ariella Azoulay; Bonnie Honig Since Hannah Arendt wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1964, her stance toward the Eichmann trial in Israel has been the subject of controversy. This essay considers why Arendt, in her reporting on the trial, seems to have insisted on a criterion of “relevance” in the face...

... queer theory but currently faces suspicion that the unseriousness with which it reads gender performance is implicitly transphobic. This article contends, however, that Jenner’s failure to convincingly appropriate the conventions of LGBT political seriousness sends up these conventions themselves...

... as a social category, has been linked to the women’s rights movement, an arduous process that serves to promote the progress and unification of humanity. The women’s rights movement subsided after the postwar period but fell far short of thoroughly liberating women. The movement faced strong resistance even...

... an almost complete reorientation of literary studies as a field—a virtual death of the vision described by Spivak. The advent of DH is quite unlike the ones accompanying the introduction of computers into other disciplines, whose basic precepts have remained largely intact in the face of digitization. DH’s...

... and contestations over its rules of sexual engagement, including deliberations on the Larry Nassar case, the complexity of “consent” as a property-based ethics, the pedagogy of “trigger warnings,” and the difficulties facing institutional feminism as it seeks to found and promote a university culture free of sexual...

... that question as a strategy for considering one of the myriad challenges facing institutional feminism. In thinking through this question, the author bridges two scholarly conversations: first, a set of persistent conversations in women’s studies about the politics and ethics of feminism’s institutional...

... that would be adequate to this experience. Witness, for instance, the linguistic contor- tions in his description of the close-up of a face breaking into a smile: I will never find the way to say how I love American close-ups...

... and Psychoanalysis.” Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas . Ed. Seán Hand. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1996 . 45 –61. Irigaray, Luce. An Ethics of Sexual Difference . Trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca:Cornell UP, 1984 . ———. Ethique de la différence sexuelle . Paris: Editions de...

..., in the face of violence, to refuse to return it?” (Giving 100). This is certainly not the only context in which Butler speaks of nonviolence, but I shall begin by paying some attention to this instance in order to open out further...

... identity debates in the South and ‘liberal’ multiculturalism in the North.” The latter she derides as the impulse to “love-your-own-face, love-your- differences 231 own...

... nerve inflamed, the left side of the face stiffened, the left eye transfixed, and horrible to behold in a 82 Blindness as Metaphor mirror—a real sight for sore...

... and human subjects, the tone of glee is tempered with disquiet. Some strange remarks from “The present and future of motion pictures” are a good example. Tanizaki holds that a human face, no matter how ugly, will always give way...

..., back in the apartment, it is Maria who, in the face of her husband’s helplessness and in a moment of acutely painful yet defiantly sovereign decision, assertively grabs her linen dowry out of the drawer, yanks all the sheets off the bed, marches into the kitchen, shoves everything into a metal pail...

... describes the encounter with the face as “at once the temptation to kill and the interdiction upon killing,” he references both differences 187 the anxiety...

... that avatars are particularly useful because they “subvert the taken-for-granted rules for properly embodying a black female body” ( Embodied 12 ) Perhaps the most overt avatars in the show are the two sculptures— No Face (Pannier) and Cupboard VIII —whose upper torsos and arms we see above raffia...

... the teacher’s response. Urging Ignacio to silence, he starts to move forward to embrace him, and the film, cutting back to the previous shot, shows Ignacio’s face in eclipse as the priest’s black cassock blocks the lens and the entire screen goes dark (see figs. 3–5 ). We can see this better by approaching...

... this lozenge, this fish, this face, this body—this thing of generic ambiguities. The handle of d – i – f – f – e – r – e – n – c – e – s : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11.2 (1999) 2...

... responses to a Rorschach inkblot test, seeing a signature in this case reflects as much the art in the artwork as the creativity or unconscious projection of the beholder. Like Mazu’s believers seeing the face of the goddess in exploding ocean waves, the art historian sees the name of the artist on canvas...