... repetition flying man piety movement Avicenna Abbas Kiarostami Saba Mahmood A rare moment of levity erupts toward the end of Abbas Kiarostami’s film, Ten (2002), as mother and son temporarily set aside the tensions that trouble their relationship. For the first time in our witness...

... the objective content of the world through it. (“Fotografie” 36) Elegy for a Fly Around the year 1870 a fly flew around the towers and battle- ments of a citadel south of Cairo. During its flight, it circled...

... : Cambridge UP , 1993 . Ehrhardt Anke A. Money John . Man and Woman, Boy and Girl: The Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1972 . Fausto-Sterling Anne . “ The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough...

... in battalions, fly- ing in formation, conquering, obliviously trampling what lies before them. They seem often not to see, to obey inaudible commands, to inhabit an alternate universe. The recently composed opera The Fly, based on two...

....” Figure 6 Tony Hertz, Gnarled Wave , 2014 Courtesy of the artist Figure 6. Tony Hertz, Gnarled Wave, 2014. / Courtesy of the artist As shown in Hertz’s case, to photograph a “gnarled wave,” man and machine need to work as one vis-à-vis nature; they have to cooperate so that what is called...

... . 143 – 63 . Ackerley C. J. Gontarski S. E. . The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought . New York : Grove , 2004 . Agamben Giorgio . The Open: Man and Animal . Trans. Attell Kevin . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2004...

.... As Hannah Arendt writes in The Human Condi- tion, “[T]he things of the world have the function of stabilizing human life”; it is by relating to man-made objects that humans, “their ever-changing nature notwithstanding, can retrieve...

... rashnesse of shedding innocent blood" (06). John Cotta argued in 1616 that "many cases justly necessarily and unavoidably stand perpetually inscrutable undecided and never determined, as certaine proofes and evidences of the limitation and annihilation of mans knowledge in many things of this life" (Dv...

.... Their ensemble, however, appears very minimal and schematic next to the complex of sensorial, aesthetic, and moral evocations which the fetish evokes in man. (699) In Sex and Character, Otto Weininger (that preeminent fin-desiecle misogynist) pronounced the sense of touch to be (epistemologically) the lowliest...

... he or she is in the throes of some emotion. It is not an easy task to abandon old habits, even when they fly in the face of abundant literary evidence, to indicate that an early modern culture like England’s understood...

... less readable when you’re lutes could be pursued in freedom from flying by in a cab. the messy business of gender relations —Yuskavage and this prisonhouse of sex. —Pollock Paradox...

... a split second. In her play Ulrike Maria Stuart , in which “language scraps,” quoted fragments of raf letters written during the period in which Ensslin viciously and repeatedly attacked and humiliated Meinhof (calling her a traitor and a swine on more than one occasion), fly through the air like...

..., also together, also in Rome. There is a risky edge to this talk because they had both been in love with the same man and knew it at the time. One of the women had been engaged to him, and duly married him, yet it is she, Mrs. Slade, who now...

... its rigs cast an eerie flame, which, together with the flare from the burning of natural gas, lights up the sky as if it were northern New Jersey. Nearby is the airport strip, as the managers prefer to settle in Lagos, from where, every morning, they fly here to supervise the work—despite...

... . Foucault Michel . “ On Governmentality .” Ideology and Consciousness 6 ( 1979 ): 5 - 23 . Gilman Sander . Diseases and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to Aids . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1988 . Gould Stephen Jay . The Mismeasure of Man . Harmondsworth : Penguin...

... CHARLES B ERN HEIMER Ie word is out: Lacan's phallus will not fly. It is too closely tied to the penis to be able to soar freely as a transcendental signifier. But Lacan's attempts to cut the cord of anatomical reference have been responsible for some remarkable flights of theoretical abstraction. We have...

...: the translator's virtues, she will write later, in the idiom of daughterly devotion, are "patiencerigid fidelity, and [a] sense of 32 George Eliot's Pulse responsibility in interpreting another man's mind" (Essays 211). Now the three volumes have been published - she has been paid her handmaiden's fee oftwenty...

... M ODLESKI The Incredible Shrinking He(r)man: Male Regression, the Male Body, and Film Even in this age offemale liberation, the pressures on men in our society are immense - to perform, to succeed, to "score" with women, to hold up an image that is illusory and usually leads to an early demise. l1...

...?” “Don’t scald it at all; just pick it, so.” “Ech-ech! Fedder fly all ober de buckera-man meat, he come bang me fo’ true. No, massa, I mighty sorry for your wife, but I no cutty chicken open.” (47...

... the viability of such a concept in question. Nonetheless, I suspect that "male subjectivity" is a recuperative cultural fantasy, a theoretical back formation from "female subjectivity," where the latter evolved as a politically necessary critique of the universal subject, "man." Does "male subjectivity...