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...Eugenie Brinkema This article posits an absolute difference between the regime of silence and the regime of near inaudibility. The regime of silence pivots equally on avowals of the possibility of sound’s absence and on negated versions, such as John Cage’s declaration, “There is no such thing...

... of related terms that slide between referential and figurative registers: resonance, timbre, whisper, echo, silence, voice, rawness, rhythm, noise, antinoise, near inaudibility, signal, and dissonance. Using these terms—and often...

... that threshold. Designed by a South Wales company, it emits a high-pitched (18kHz) whine, intolerable to the young (thirteen- to twenty-five-year-olds) but inaudible to older people, whose ears no longer have the acuity to register...

... actually harkens back to the Gnostic concept of truth as too complex to describe, because he defined history as what could not be read in manifest discourse, as “the inaudible and illegible notation...

... an infection in my liver from drinking a lot. M: [Softly, almost inaudible.] Okay. C: Pero ya dejé la bebida. Tengo cinco años que no bebo . O: But it’s been five years since I stopped drinking. M: Oh good. O: Qué bueno . M: So [pause], all the times you went into the psychiatric hospital, what is your, why...

... of listening, an inaudible and inarticulable queer sonority that cannot be expunged from the filmic medium. In this sense, Blue, like many of Jarman’s films, can be defined as part of the genre of “the structural film” of the sixties...

... 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...

... by its oblique address to the side. It speaks about speaking, but inaudibly, in the sense that it is not just taking place within an allegori- cally charged context but is structured by allegory, that is, a speaking that is phatic...

... her own inaudibility if she were to insist on using the original language in a public setting. The problem she faces can be stated this way: does she sacrifice the specificities of the language in order to generalize, so that she can put Asian literatures in a "cross-cultural" 36 Politics and Pedagogy...

... promiscuity (if not polymorphic perversity) in both its models and uses. Cinema emerged within a welter of new inventions for the recording or conveying of aspects of human life previously felt to be ephemeral, inaudible, or invisible...

... point of view to an extreme close-up shot as the lost laughter is swapped with soundbites of “scary” and “get his ass,” assaults against “Little,” as Chiron is nicknamed, made nearly inaudible as the soundtrack heightens the sounds of the train to reduce the dialogue to an afterthought, one, however...

... of the Augustinian picture of language. And to the extent that “différance” is not and does not claim to be a proper name, to the extent that it actively dislocates its nominal identity through the inaudible (typo)graphic scar d i f f e r e n c e s...

... slept for a long time. I was only wakened when I had reached the last light sleep which dissolves of itself, and it must have been very light, for it was an almost inaudible whistling noise [ein...

... eloquently that we, looking back, may rediscover it.” Althusser writes: “The truth of history cannot be read in its manifest discourse, because the text of history is not a text in which a voice (the Logos) speaks, but the inaudible...

...- “enduring speech cloaked in a rator observes the assistant (in phase of inaudibility” and treats a drugged state) writing to his it as a myth finally fulfilled...

... [. . .] but on the borderline of nature, at any rate foreign to man; almost inaudible, it evoked pleasurable dreams of an endless descent which, in normal circumstances, can never be realised. Others suggested...

... and which has been the first task of feminist thought to disentangle - the paradox of woman, a being that is at once captive and absent in discourse, constantly spoken of but of itself inaudible or inexpressible, displayed as spectacle and yet unrepresented; a being whose existence and specificity...

... as a process that spatialized knowledge by overcoming secrets and penetrating mysteries, as a technique that made the unseen visible and d fferences 139 amplified the inaudible. "[L]ife before birth - until recently an all but impenetrable mystery even for medical science - now promises to yield secrets...

... subject who accedes to language must first have some- thing to lose—something for which language then acts as compensation. For Danbei, Shunkin’s musical language is inaudible because she lacks the phallic qualifications to speak...

...- discourse, constantly spoken of tion, these claims get articulated but of itself inaudible or inex- in terms of problems associated pressible, displayed as spectacle...