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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 148–178.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Nancy Armstrong; Leonard Tennenhouse This essay argues that sovereignty, both the form of government and the law it constitutes, can be understood in terms of what it keeps out and at bay—namely, historically specific forms of formlessness. Assuming that formlessness does indeed have a form...
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differences (1993) 5 (3): 154–178.
Published: 01 November 1993
.... Manila's New Metropolitan Form NEFERTI XINA M. TADIAR I have always experienced Metro Manila as a generally flat city. Ostensibly because of flooding problems, it has no underground transport system, nor do the majority of its houses have basements. With the exception of commercial office buildings, hotels...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 63–102.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... The Philosophy of the Novel:Lukács, Marxism, and the Dialectics of Form . Minneapolis:u of Minnesota p, 1984 . Bewes, Timothy. Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism . London: Verso, 2002 . Bloom, Harold. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds . New York: Warner, 2002...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., collaborative institutional forms for thinking. The increasingly corporate academic model needs to move away from its instrumentalizing emphasis on output, this essay suggests, to acknowledge, instead, the pleasures of teaching, of learning, and of thinking. Brown University and differences : A Journal...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2010
... lecture symptomale sharply critiques the metaphor of depth and cautiously deploys a metaphor of terrain. This article proposes that from an Althusserian perspective, the metaphors of surface and depth as they appear in “Surface Reading” are twin brothers, two sides of a coin. Whether in the form...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... when read in its immediate context of Master Humphrey’s Clock , a weekly periodical. The text’s repetition of stylistic elements, the composition and placement of woodcut images, and the enforced interruptions of the serial form introduce pauses, or moments of arrested time, into the movement...
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 1 Diagram of Freud’s theory of anal sexuality and the trans-formative itinerary of the “little one.” Source: Freud, “On Transformations.”
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 7 Encyclopedia of abstract forms from Giuseppe Pagano and Guarniero Daniel’s Architettura rurale italiana
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the vessels to illuminate multiple possibilities of thinking with race and aesthetics to remake feminist theory. This turn toward form, assemblage, and sensation, in turn, critiques notions of subjectivity that revolve around desire. Studying these vessels refracts feminist theorizing through multiple lenses...
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Ramsey McGlazer This essay studies figures of arrest and mobility, imprisonment and release, and “rigor and extravagance” in Leo Bersani’s writings. Focusing on The Forms of Violence , a study of late Assyrian sculpture coauthored with Ulysse Dutoit and first published in 1985, the essay at once...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Elissa Marder This essay explores how Baudelaire’s insistence on perverse forms of nonreproductive sexuality (what is here called “bad sex”) exposes critical aspects of his poetics and his relation to the question of aesthetics. It takes up two of Baudelaire’s most famous poems (“To the Reader...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 44–50.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Kris Cohen In Leo Bersani’s essay “Sociality and Sexuality,” bracketing emerges as a critical procedure for sensing and for practicing nonsovereign forms of sociality. Following Foucault’s desire to discover modes of relation, forms of the homosexual, that do not yet have a world...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 177–188.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Tara McPherson This piece considers some recent variations on the debate around the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities, code studies, and platform studies in order to argue for a theoretically explicit form of digital praxis within the digital humanities. It takes seriously Gary...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jake Silver This article explores the shape of queer sexual habits and gendered forms of desire along the Jerusalem light rail, a route whose role in normalizing Israeli occupation and colonialism has been hotly contested during its construction and since its opening in 2011. Analyzing how...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 139–149.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the correspondence as a Butlerian account clarifies why subjects choose a relational form like letter writing for the self-representation of trauma. It observes how particular forms of life writing—letters and the eulogy, among them—provide occasions for the reciprocity on which the account depends, even...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
... measure to resist efforts to comprehend it. To begin to acknowledge the historical and material forms of the existence of violence is to confront the “tragic” dimension of the practice of politics. Just as this practice can never abandon itself to violence, so it can never altogether abandon violence...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Lila Abu-Lughod The “honor crime” poses perhaps more starkly than any other contemporary cultural-legal category the dilemmas of feminist scholarship and rights activism in a transnational world. Marked as a culturally specific form of violence and given a special and stigmatizing association...
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