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...Iain Morland In debates about the medical management of intersex, also known as “disorders of sex development,” it is often assumed that morally good treatment can make patients, families, and doctors feel comfortable and, conversely, that morally bad treatment generates feelings of discomfort...

...Stephanie Clare Contemporary scholarship on emotion and feeling tends to fold bodily sensations such as feeling cold into emotions, like fear. In contrast, this essay slows down to consider the contours of cold itself, showing how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception offers a method...

... . The Sublime Object of Ideology . London : Verso , 1989 . BRUCE ROBBINS The Weird Heights: On Cosmopolitanism, Feeling, and Power [Political economy] develops a cosmopolitan, universal energy which breaks through every limitation and bond and sets itself up as the only policy, the only universality...

.... Feelings of injustice persist and inform the field. There is something wrong; there is something we need not only to research but also to find words and expressions to describe for the sake of justice, something that motivates the academic field of gender studies. As a field of conceptual study, gender...

...Sara Edenheim In the ongoing research and activism concerning the queer archive of feelings, few historians have openly engaged in the discussion on the limits and possibilities of the archive. This article, written by a historian, provides a critical perspective on this debate and an analysis...

... of postindustrial capitalism, one's life is perceived as a work of art and as a particular kind of enterprise. The overemphasis of choice, however, does not seem to bring contentment to the individual, but rather increases feelings of anxiety and insecurity. In order to appease feelings of anxiety, people often...

... trapped in a space that is closing in and a feeling of being disembodied. Rather than attempt to make a case for identifying with ghosts or being able to feel their trauma, this essay considers how the sense of being immersed within such uncanny spaces produces its own sense of distance and proximity...

... and tools of historically specific injustices such as the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and especially the transatlantic slave trade. Rather than condemning this kind of role playing--especially as it takes place between black and white men--Julien offers sadomasochism as an embodied way to feel historical...

... of social order and the limits of knowledge. Through analyses of eighteenth- and twenty-first-century cultural texts, she posits that this new cultural discourse, germane to free-market capitalism, is best understood as epistemically governed by the affective concept of a “headless” feeling soma self...

...Elizabeth Freeman Talia Schaffer has noted that care work needn’t be joined with the feeling of care. This article extends this insight to explore medical kink (“sadomedicine”) as a form of distantiated yet attuned care work that resituates the literary debates on symptomatic versus surface reading...

... on the Acropolis” (1936), provides the point of departure for exploring Freud’s analysis of the oceanic feeling and the ideal of universal love championed by Rolland, as well as the quite different kind of love advocated by Freud. Other themes germane to the late work of Freud are also explored, including...

... of these films, the burden of the capitalist world on human life can be felt, and in that feeling, these films gain a political—even ecological—inflection. Max Ophuls waste cinema garbage disposal film theory objects stuff Most people’s lives, what are they but trails of debris? Each day more...

... and ethical practice; during the Han and Wei (220-65 ce ) dynasties, she plays an important role in the integration of yin and yang metaphysics, social morality, expressions of individual feeling, and legal order into a harmonious and cohesive aesthetic and ideological structure. This article examines...

... of Brennan’s archival papers, this article contextualizes Brennan’s inquiry with her theoretical influences in Freud, Klein, and Lacan. The essay concludes by reflecting on Brennan’s insights for the present “post-truth” political impasse, a discourse of personal feeling for which her theory provides...

... and the death drive: “[ J ] ouissance is an excessive surplus of ‘affect’ resulting from the intertwining of the pleasure principle’s libido and the death drive” (149). Affect, in this sense, would not describe a pure state of feeling or sensation; rather, it would describe the way in which feeling...

... dysphoria language psychoanalysis subjectivity transgender studies To become whole, Stallworth’s narration reminds us, does not mean to isolate the feelings of misrecognition in the experiences of one individual subject or identity category. Rather, as Stallworth models by drawing attention...

... the stages in the determinate life of the soul, and here we require a slight digression into Hegel's "Anthropology," the inquiry into the first stages of the soul's progression toward consciousness. Hegel delineates three principal stages: the natural soul (die natilrliche Seele), the feeling soul...

... and Other Fictions (Indiana University Press, 1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Indiana University Press,1999). She is currently working on a book entitled “Circulating Anger and Other Feelings: The Cultural Politics of the Emotions.” Androshcik, Julie. “Craps Game...

... the other as a “like subject,” another mind who can be “felt with” yet has a distinct, separate center of feeling and perception (see Bonds; Like Subjects). The image I have chosen here to distinguish the intersub- jective perspective from...

... Ferreira da Silva, “1 (life)” ; Jackson, “Theorizing” ; McKittrick, “Mathematics” ; Morgan, Reckoning ; and Warren, “Catastrophe.” Still, I feel a discomforting urgency to do away with geometry as a framework for thought. Geometry extends the practices and procedures available to mathematical...