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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... Simon . Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1989 . Williams Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1991 . EVELYNN HAMMONDS Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 9–41.
Published: 01 December 2012
... by geometer Daina Taimina to make wooly reefs, with the aim of drawing attention to the menace that climate change poses to the world’s coral reefs. Hyperbolic crochet is a method of fabricating models of hyperbolic geometry, a kind of non-Euclidean geometric space characterized by negative curvature. Many...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... there exists a prohibition on mixing the types, and that the two core types themselves (geometry and arithmetic) are mutually intertwined using notions of hierarchy, foreignness, and priority. The author concludes that whatever incidental biases it may display, mathematics also contains an essential bias. 9...
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 September 1999
... . DANIEL COTTOM Orifices Extended in Space At the center of the painting, or at once everywhere and nowhere, geometry is mortified. Hung ever so slightly off kilter, its right wing curling toward...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 314–315.
Published: 01 July 1994
... . Grosz Elizabeth . “ The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice of Love .” 6 . 2–3 : 283 – 304 . Hammonds Evelynn . “ Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality .” 6 . 2–3 : 132 – 151 . Hertz Neil...
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differences (1993) 5 (3): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 1993
... and Shorter Kingsley . London : Verso , 1979 . Burgin Victor . “ Geometry and Abjection .” Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds. Ed. Donald James . London : Macmillan , 1991 . Deutsche Rosalyn . “ On Men in Space .” Artforum ( Feb . 1990 ): 21 - 23...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 53–86.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Wrote the Bible? San Francisco: Harper, 1987 . Gabriel, Richard. Gods of Our Fathers . Westport, ct: Greenwood, 2002 . Heller-Roazen, Daniel. “Speaking in Tongues.” Paragraph 25 ( 2002 ): 92 -115. Husserl, Edmund. Origin of Geometry . Trans. Jacques Derrida. Lincoln: u of Nebraska p...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
... they present for queer theory is, still, that black women’s sexuality, rather than being “structured along an axis of normal and perverse paralleling that of white women,” operates according to the laws of what Evelynn Hammonds calls a “different geometry,” a mathematics we have yet to master (139). 8...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
Published: 01 May 2006
... . Derrida, Jacques. Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction . Trans. John P. Leavey. Lincoln: u of Nebraska p, 1989 . Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid. Der Frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen: Jüdische Werte, Kritische Philosophie, vergängliche Erfahrung . Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2000...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... account of an even more rigorous effort to produce a self-grounding philosophical system. In “Pascal’s Allegory of Persuasion,” de Man focuses on what happens when Blaise Pascal, observing geometry’s refusal to define its principal objects (movement, number, and space), asserts that this “lack...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 44–50.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., as it were, the diagonal lines he can lay out in the social fabric allow these virtualities to come to light” (Foucault qtd. in Bersani 641–42 ). Homosexuals aren’t so much the heroes as they are the as-yet-unrealized. Their position is less sovereign and more a kind of geometry: not accidental...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 May 2023
... made by slight bends in a straight line, or by slight straightenings of a curve (80–81); * and to strong “geometries” (9, fig. 4) that group seemingly unrelated objects within a common lattice, “creating a space for formal relations irrelevant to the anecdotal unity of the larger scene” (73, figs...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and communal strategies of sexual protection that black women had historically cultivated in response to discursive and material sexual violence, she ultimately concludes that silence inhibits black sexual freedom. 7 In two of her most widely cited essays, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female...
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differences (1999) 11 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 December 1999
... . Cryle, Thomas. Geometry of the Boudoir: Configurations of French Erotic Narrative . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994 . Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1986 . DeJean, Joan. Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 40–86.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., 1993 . ———. “Cogito and the History of Madness.” Writing and Difference 31 -63. ———. Edmund Husserl's “Origin of Geometry”: An Introduction . Trans. John P. Leavey. Stony Brook: Nicholas Hays, 1978 . ———. “Force of Law: The `Mystical Foundation of Authority.' ” Acts of Religion . Ed. Gil...
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 1990
... the question, and closes the door against women. Let me quote two footnotes. Here is the fITst one: The intellectual world, geometry not excepted, is full of incomprehensible though indubitable truths. For reason, which demonstrates their existence, cannot touch them, so to speak, through the barrier...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 101–130.
Published: 01 May 2012
... proceed metonymically, spreading rapidly across a population. Detached from the geometry of straight lineage, queer reproduction is not 110 On Homosexual Reproduction a vertical...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 129–170.
Published: 01 July 1998
... production to put in question the expressive immediacy of the trace (e.g., as in his 1961 Box with the Sound ojlts Own Making [fig. 5] or, differently, in his anonymous fiber glass geometries from the mid-1960s), Antoni's work retains but also reformulates this critical emphasis: rather than evoking...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 161–196.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of immersion in the Drifters exhibit. Playing with scale, volume, and space, refraction unsettles organizing geometries of reflection, but in doing so it makes us profoundly aware of our bodies in space.10 Refracted vision...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 179–193.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of dégage pas un à un les constitu- Caesar is not as absolute as those ants ultimes, mais les entremêle of numbers or of geometry, but aussitôt dans l’innombrables...