...Catherine Malabou This essay confronts Peter Singer’s vision of the gift with Jacques Derrida’s by examining the claims of “effective altruism,” a movement of which Singer is the most prominent representative. While Derrida argues that giving for the sake of giving is impossible to the extent...

... . briankle g. chang Of Giving Memory . . . We are The sad opacity of our future ghosts Is there, of this destiny, nothing that remains? —Mallarmé, “Funerary Toast” 44–45...

... of English Etymology . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1966 . Simpson D. P. , ed. Cassell's Latin Dictionary . New York : Macmillan Publishing Company , 1968 . ERIN SOROS Giving Death The fort/da in question here, as a particular story, is an autobiography which instructs: every autobiography...

...Tracy McNulty This essay examines the stakes of the traversal of the fantasy in the unfolding of an analysis, arguing that the aim of a psychoanalysis is to liberate the unconscious quest that traverses the analysand by giving expression to what has been censored in his or her body. Paradoxically...

... philosophy when it did nothing to prevent the state's murder of Socrates. Philosophy was too puny to fight the power. Authority and its cognates gave Plato the arsenal he needed to upgrade the philosophical stance and give it an antiballistic shield. Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Kojève show concern over...

.... A concept provides an event with an incorporeal lining, a virtual force that enables the event to give way to new and unpredictable effects. Feminist theory has produced a profound concept that has not yet been adequately understood: the concept of sexual difference, which has been elaborated in most detail...

... was proximate to the site to which the information referred. This article argues that if “archive” is the name we give to the power to make and command what took place here or there, in this or that place, and thus what has an authoritative place in the contemporary organization of social life, the postcolonial...

... who was this public figure at the center of one of the most important political-intellectual controversies of the twentieth century. Von Trotta’s cinematic inquiry is in some ways justified by Arendt’s insights into how the who is revealed to others. Hannah Arendt gives us an opportunity to follow...

...'' (that word which, Jacques Derrida says, humans have given themselves the right to give to others) has become a test or limit case: the linguistic turn, the post- or counter-linguistic turn, and the ethical turn. It is also a report that builds on the words of Kafka's ape, Red Peter, who, in his ``Report...

... of feelings, consisting of ephemera and “feelings”? Is it not with the future in mind that both the historian and the queer archivist insist on conserving documents and feelings alike? Such questions lead to a discussion on the importance of not giving up the Lacanian definition of the negative as applied...

... Christian discourse of the human soul's struggle to master the “habits of this life,” the author calls attention to an alternative conception of habitual bodily being that gives expression to the latter's fundamental ambi-valence . The habitual body of the multitude is read as an ontological structure...

... of the narrative temporality that give form to grief as an impersonal affect in contrast to the sentimentality and interpersonal relationality through which the text is often read. The last part of the article advocates for a turn from the nonrelationality of the antisocial thesis in queer theory to a theory...

... become further embedded within the infrastructure of everyday encounters, giving rise to something we might call the erotic life of anti-racism. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 antiracism Asian femininity...

... is it that gives time? This kind of inquiry cannot be governed by the principle or value of presence because the order of presence already presupposes persistence or endurance within the form of time. Such questions also...

... `Critique of Violence.' ” Political Theologies . Ed. Hent de Vries. New York: Fordham up, 2006 . 201 -19. ____. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative . London: Routledge, 1997 . ____. Giving an Account of Oneself . New York: Fordham up, 2005 . ____. Precarious Life: The Powers...

... experience of incalculable giving even as it confronts questions of sexual and explicitly marital violence with unusual force and economy. “The Ballad of the Sad Café” tells the story of a “queer mar- riage” that takes place...