...Teresa de Lauretis TERESA DE LAURETIS Response Habit Changes It is true that, so far as we know, no psychical apparatus exists which possesses a primary process only and that such an apparatus is to that extent a theoretical fiction. But this much is a fact: the primary processes are present...

...Brady Thomas Heiner Among the principal demands of contemporary political theory and practice is to determine habitable alternatives to (1) the violent and falsely two-sided dynamic of sovereignty and (2) the modern equation of the unitary, self-governing entity with the human itself. This essay...

...Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Sarah Friedland This essay attempts to disable the “ruinous” logic that has fueled recent slut-shaming on Web 2.0 by making visible the ways in which our machines are promiscuous—routinely “leaking.” The authors present the leak as a habit so as to disrupt the illusion...

...S. Pearl Brilmyer This essay explores Leo Bersani’s relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close...

...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...

...Erica R. Edwards This essay works at the intersection of queer critique and black feminism to elaborate the problem that the incorporation of minority difference into the institutions and imaginaries of contemporary global power poses for our habits of thought in feminist studies. Attending...

...Joan Copjec This paper is the first part of a two-part attempt to distinguish that repetition that founds a behaviorist notion of habit from another, obscure mechanism of repetition. The argument moves from the discussion of an eleventh-century thought experiment, devised by the Muslim mystic...

... Nietzsche’s conception of eternal return, as well as Husserl’s notion of habituation or habit, defined as a preconscious substrate of “passive activities” that condition the spontaneous acts of the rational subject ( Husserl, Cartesian 66 ). For Benjamin, the discovery of these primal histories was bound up...

... Aporias .” 26 . 3 : 81 – 106 . Butler Judith . “ Theatrical Machines .” 26 . 3 : 23 – 42 . Chun Wendy Hui Kyong . “ Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards .” 26 . 2 : 1 – 28 . Edwards Erica R. “ Sex after the Black Normal .” 26 . 1 : 141 – 67 . Friedland...

... – 63 . Butler Judith . “ Against Proper Objects. Introduction .” 6 . 2–3 : 1 – 26 . de Lauretis Teresa . “ Habit Changes. Response .” 6 . 2–3 : 305 – 323 . DuCille Ann . “ Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference .” 6 . 1 : 46 – 68...

... in women (to mention only the pathologized aspects of bowel habits), and nothing has been written about how bowel “regularity” becomes one of the means by which women exercise “control” in their daily lives. In the following pages, I would like...

... memory the images of things imprinted upon it by my former habits still linger on [W]hen 1 dream, they not only give me pleasure but are very much like acquiescence in the act" (233). Augustine adds hopefully, "By granting me more abundant grace you can even quench the fire of sensuality which provokes...

... corporate media censorship, not John Leonard's hyperbolic raving against sex, Nietzsche, and Foucault in the name of Reason, Humanism, and Sartre, not even the Nation's irritating habit of casting "feminists" as either interest-group liberals or enemies of the First Amendment, but rather, its protectiveness...

... style and idiomatic habits: in effect, it commands authority. Let me stick with this point and give it some backup, if that should prove possible. Let us approach this issue with the aim of exploring the authority that differences...

... activities cannot always serve pure science. Nonetheless, pure science is also explicitly part of its mission. But even without this [mandate], you will understand that the habits of thirty years of scientific work cannot simply be laid aside, and I am conscious that without the persistence of this habit I...

..., permanent anxiety. So, if, as our epigraph would have it, to inhabit is the fundamental trait of man’s being, we have seen that the self is one primordial kind of home or habitation that the subject inhabits, albeit with some persistent anxiety about its foundations and its security. Another...

.... Ethics could, for example, be found in an invitation to take a break from a good theory, as well as a bad one—if that invitation were communicated with such force and form as to open a temporary sense of the possible free fall of one’s theoretical habits. Or compare the well-worn references...

... the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space . Cambridge: mit p, 2001 . Hird, Myra J. “Feminist Matters: New Materialist Considerations of Sexual Difference.” Feminist Studies 5.2 ( 2004 ): 223 -32. Kirby, Vicki. “Corporeal Habits: Addressing Essentialism Differently.” Hypatia: A Journal...

... ordered polis but opened the way to modern readings in which Greek drama is seen as centered on the sovereign individual. Brady Thomas Heiner explains the importance of the concept of “habit” as that against which Augustine...

...~ furthermore~ has a tendency to extrapolate rapidly from its perceptions~ building up a whole picture on the basis of a fe~' signs~ instead of attending closely to all the evidence that is actually before it (816-17). Clearly~ ~'ishes~ habits~ and expectations will all influence the way in which the mind does...