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differences (1998) 10 (3): 119–158.
Published: 01 November 1998
... critique 7 . 1 (Forthcoming). Zito Angela , and Barlow Tani E. , eds. Body, Subject and Power in China . Chicago : Chicago UP , 1994 . TANI E. BARLOW "green blade in the act of being grazed": Late Capital, Flexible Bodies, Critical Intelligibility Bodies of matter jostled...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 119–160.
Published: 01 December 2012
... figures the scientist’s ability to acquire knowledge about the microscopic molecular world but ostensibly without the expenditure of work. This essay offers a rereading of Leo Szilard’s influential account of Maxwell’s demon (1929), which explores the influence of human intelligence on scientific...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 161–196.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the ocean by displaying organisms necessarily removed from their natural habitat, the author holds this train of thought in suspension to contemplate the aspects of sea life that have escaped the epistemological taming that makes the mysterious ocean intelligible to land-dwelling humans. The radical...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... gets under our skin. How does an outside (social norms, grids of intelligibility, and behavioral compliance) also articulate the inside (personal belief and conscience, and even biological symptomatologies)? Given this intricate involvement between the inside and the outside, an involvement whose...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 224–236.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Cultural Studies 2024 address discourse intelligibility power recognition scene self It was difficult to write Giving an Account of Oneself , since I included very little autobiographical detail. The decision was in some sense deliberate since I set out to understand the opacity of any...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 132–155.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., 1977-92: An Intelligence Monograph . Washington, DC : Center for the Study of Intelligence , 1993 . The Cultural Observatory at Harvard University . “ Culturomics: faq .” Culturomics . Dec. 2010 . http://www.culturomics.org/Resources/faq ( accessed 25 May 2013 ). Eco Umberto...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 1996
... of the stealth contract binding any intelligent-or, finally, stupid-activity that seeks to establish itself and territorialize its findings. The relatedness of stupidity to intelligence and, possibly of greater consequence, the status of modulations, usages, crimes, and valuations of stupidity itself, remain...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 September 2007
... that the attainment of materiality and intelligibility is simultaneous with the attribution of value or worth within the social sphere. None of this is to say that materialization is determin- ing, such that one’s social worth...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 27–48.
Published: 01 September 2003
... That As Yet Have No Model: Derrida's`Limited Inc.'” The Spivak Reader . Ed. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean. New York: Routledge, 1996 . Turing, Alan. Collected Works: Mechanical Intelligence . Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1992 . ____. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Mind 236 ( 1950 ): 433...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
Published: 01 December 2011
... . 74 – 82 . ———. “ The Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible .” Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems. Transactions of the Seventh Conference . Ed. von Foerster Heinz . New York : Josiah Macy Jr...
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 14–44.
Published: 01 May 2002
... as dangerous for the child, but perilous to the putative natural and cultural laws said to sustain human intelligibility. As background for this essay, it is probably important to know that the recent debates in France targeted...
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 127–158.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the event: it creates the conditions of intelligibility that make it intelligible. Blum could not have predicted Barrès’s reaction a priori; a posteriori it seems self-evident. It is the Affair that allows us to understand the Affair...
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 185–186.
Published: 01 November 1998
...’: Late Capital, Flexible Bodies, Critical Intelligibility .” 10 . 3 : 119 – 158 . Briggs Laura . “ Discourses of ‘Forced Sterilization’ in Puerto Rico: The Problem with the Speaking Subaltern .” 10 . 2 : 30 – 66 . Chanter Tina . “ Tragic Dislocations: Antigone's Modern Theatrics...
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differences (1992) 4 (1): 40–75.
Published: 01 April 1992
... the inaugural opposition of metaphysics is implied here. Any engendering is the result of the union of two different principles, a male principle which is intelligible reason (ideas, model, father) and a female principle which is matter. This archaic sexuation of the major metaphysical opposition is still quite...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 100–125.
Published: 01 July 1994
... of particularity. Or, to put it more accurately, to make them distinct from the particularities, insularities, and quasi-natural wishes of average women Rueling represents them in phallic terms. Second, active sexual desire, independence, and uniqueness are associated with greater intelligence, increased self...
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differences (2004) 15 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2004
... York: Washington Square, 1966 . Brooks, Rodney. “Intelligence without Representation.” Artificial Intelligence 47 ( 1991 ): 139 -59. Buss, David M. The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating . New York: Basic, 1994 . Calasso, Roberto. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. Trans...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 3–43.
Published: 01 February 1989
..., Worcester Polytechnic . Hayles N. Katherine . “ Text out of Context: Situating Postmodernism within an Information Society .” Discourse 9 ( 1987 ): 24 - 36 . Hillis W. Daniel . “ Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior: Or, The Songs of Eden .” Daedalus 117 . 1 ( 1988 ): 175 - 89...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 125–162.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., to set out in the opposite direction; I propose a med itation on the technologies that define, circu mscribe, enact, constitute, and reconstitute the very intelligibility of that which is human. This will, I hope, lead us to look...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): iii.
Published: 01 April 1993
... proponents of twelve-step programs, to the drug addicts and crack babies represented by the policy establishment. Indeed, as an explanatory system addiction seems to make intelligible the quite disparate worlds of middle-class subjectivity and under-class adjection, rendering both as always on the edge...
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 87–128.
Published: 01 July 1998
..., is not yet to explain in which way the "materiality" of sex is forcibly produced. What are the constraints by which bodies are materialized as "sexed," and how are we to understand the "matter" of sex, and of bodies more generally, as the repeated and violent circumscription of cultural intelligibility...