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differences (1992) 4 (3): 66–90.
Published: 01 November 1992
... of Independence and Innovation .” The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886. Ed. Moffett Charles S. , et al. Washington : National Gallery , 1986 . 421 - 42 . Grief and Fascination HEATHER DAWKINS There is, with Degas, dried-up will power, and a line that cuts like a knife. . . . The angular...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 165–174.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Was the Linguistic Turn? A Genealogy .” American Historical Review 117.3 ( June 2012 ): 700 – 22 . sylvia schafer Still Turning: Language, “Theory,” and History’s Fascination with the New Introductory Note: This paper was delivered...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Tom Roach Bersanian fascination is not merely a fleeting affective state. It is, rather, a mode of inquiry and a form of being. If Bersani is initially fascinated with the antisocial nature of sexual desire, he later becomes enthralled with a notion of fascinated witnessing that reveals...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... The author wants to see Darwin’s career-long fascination with the coevolution of orchids and their insect pollinators as the emergence within his theory of an alternative to natural selection—a positive force of attraction that works both on and through variation. The currency of the orchid-wasp relationship...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
... reading of Todorov involves considerable misunderstanding, it nevertheless produces fascinating results and exemplifies the impossibility of relegating literary theory to a single regime of relevance. © 2021 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 Franz...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 97–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Anna M. Moncada Storti Cultural depictions of Asian/white miscegenation have long been a source of fascination for scholars within Asian American and sexuality studies. Such a long-standing interest has not only provided key insights into the Orientalist structure of racialized sexuality...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 February 1989
..., the incision, indicates the surface of a weakly held limit between technology and Being. Technology, while by no means neutral, but a field of fascination, is viewed as covering an authentic relation to Being. It is from this point onwards that claims are made for a relation to Being more original than...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2016
... methodological ground. Interestingly enough, in a telling moment early in Are the Lips a Grave? , Huffer characterizes her “agenda” in that book as “driven” (a word to which I’ll return) by what she calls “my Foucauldian fascination with desubjectivation and what self-undoing might mean” (56). She follows...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 126–134.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Amy Hollywood This essay describes Bersani’s exploration of oneness and difference in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights , and relates it to a larger discussion of trauma, love, and afterlife. The fate of all fascination with the self as the other—the fate of a radical open-endedness of being...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Inquiry: In the Moment 14 Mar. 2022 . https://critinq.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/leo-bersani/ . Sontag Susan . “ Fascinating Fascism .” Under the Sign of Saturn . New York : Vintage , 1981 . 72 – 105 . Tuhkanen Mikko . “ Saving Frivolity, or, on Sociability and Spandrels...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 209–210.
Published: 01 November 1992
... : 134 - 53 . Cornell Drucilla . “ What Takes Place in the Dark .” 4 . 2 : 45 - 71 . Dawkins Heather . “ Grief and Fascination .” 4 . 3 : 66 - 90 . Easton Richard . “ Canonical Criminalizations: Homosexuality, Art History, Surrealism, and Abjection .” 4 . 3 : 130 - 75...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 May 2023
... possibilities for alteration was an idea that stayed with me—fascinated me—when I was writing my first book. Rereading The Forms of Violence now, I realize that Bersani and Dutoit’s work also taught me to look for “ways out” in the least promising, because apparently most closed-off, places ( McGlazer 156...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2023
... The enhancement and excess, to which the term mad refers here, do not involve a denaturalization of semiotic forms through distancing. The madness of which Bersani speaks lies, in a first step, precisely in the unwillingness to move away from the fascination with male heterosexual identity: not a gender copy...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 228–234.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., speaks of “races”—and, here, as categories of men in particular. That exclusiveness accounts not only for the envy and fascination with which Charlus, Proust’s paradigmatic male homosexual, regards the members of the other group—in a relation like that of the “envious, excluded readers” for whom...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 160–186.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Carole-Anne Tyler The Supreme Sacrifice? TV, "TV," and the Renee Richards Story CAROLE-ANNE TYLER RtmodernitY is fascinated with the failure of sexual difference. From television talk shows to poststructuralist theory, the apparently increasing "in-difference" of the sexes is a central issue...
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 123–156.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... Fascination beneath the Surface . Heidelberg: Institute for Plastination, 2001 . Von Dijck, José. “Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers.” Configurations 9 ( 2001 ): 99 -126. Waldby, Catherine. aids and the Body Politic. Biomedicine and Sexual Difference . London: Routledge, 1996...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 1993
... it strives to represent in all its contingency. Nevertheless, alongside this doubt, this assertion of a nonrelation between photography and the body, there continues to exist a certain fascination with the possibility of an imbrication of technology and the body. The two historical anecdotes situate...
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differences (1999) 11 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 May 1999
... from an ex-patient of his”— was connected to this same desire to break down mental and physical barriers (3: 407). Ferenczi was fascinated by the occult for the very reason that it might contribute...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 224–225.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Theory Out of Science: Introduction.” 23.3: 1–8. Schafer, Sylvia. “Still Turning: Language, ‘Theory,’ and History’s Fascination with the New.” 23.2: 165–74. Schrader, Astrid. “Haunted Measurements: Demonic...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 14–35.
Published: 01 April 1997
... as the embodiment of the paralyzing effects of the Iliadic 16 The Sirens and Feminine }ou;ssonce poetics because their song binds its listeners obsessively to the fascination of death" (210).5 Death is therefore something that lies at the center of the Odyssey, the song of survival, but it is also something...