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differences (1993) 5 (2): 24–61.
Published: 01 July 1993
.... AVAl'oT APRS CHRISTOPHER LANE "The Delirium of Interpretation": Writing the Papin Affair I. Interpreting the Event of Psychosis This is what analytical discourse is all about: what can be read. What can be read beyond what the subject has been incited to say. . . . In analytic discourse, the signifying...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Juana María Rodríguez This essay uses the keyword testimony to explore how that term has been understood through law, literature, and social media. It explores the rhetorical demands of the hashtag #MeToo in relation to the demands of representation and interpretation to probe our affective...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 276–282.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to hone. rwiegman@duke.edu zrc@princeton.edu © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 Bersani interpretation psychoanalysis repetition unconscious The heroically impossible project of psychoanalysis is to theorize an untheorizable...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 59–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Marissa Kantor Dennis This piece is an interpretation of an interpretation of an interpretation. The setting is a clinical encounter between a Spanish-speaking patient, an English-speaking doctor, and a Spanish medical interpreter on the inpatient psychiatric floor of a New York–area hospital...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Adi Ophir Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt offers a brilliant cinematic interpretation of one of the most pivotal chapters in Hannah Arendt’s life and work, the Eichmann trial. The author argues that the film correctly assumes that Arendt’s thinking on evil underwent an important change during...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 139–149.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Penelope Deutscher Following criticisms of Alison Stone's treatment of Judith Butler on nature and embodiment, this article argues that Stone has reconfigured Butler so as to accommodate Stone's interpretation of Irigaray. The project can be used to draw attention to forms of prior reconfiguration...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sara-Maria Sorentino Recent texts in the historiography of slavery have focused on slave-owning women in an attempt to overturn the paradigm of the benevolent mistress. While “benevolence” has silenced and exceptionalized mistresses’ violence, newer interpretations draw from slave testimony...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 161–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
... be gesturally employed to get things right. To do so would imply that difference, like an ideal, can methodologically serve and justify the ostensibly positive yields of interpretation. Instead, difference is a kind of syncope or suspension of (dis)belief, a stalling of consequence that turns our belief...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... value and on the critical analysis of diverse representations of the honor crime in Germany, Sweden, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, and elsewhere, the author explores how the seductive power of the honor crime, mixing sexual titillation and moral horror, and its truly polymorphous interpretive capacity have...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...” argues that historicizing “the way they were”—that is, examining the manner in which the earliest African Americans lived and loved—is less a matter of how captive communities experienced intimacy than of who gets to interpret and codify their experience, of who gets to say how the past means...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 May 2020
... exhibition forwards a notably distinct version of what counts as “revolutionary” feminist politics. Hayes argues ultimately for an interpretation of Leigh’s work as a prefigurative, utopian feminism that demands more—for example, than mere inclusion—from progressive institutions and feminist art. © 2020...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to the tradition of the philosophy of nature and interpreting Butler as offering, in spite of her focus on the genealogy of claims about sex, also a theory of sex itself, a theory of sex as an effect entirely of gender. This approach to reading differs from Irigaray's own reading method of expanding...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2010
...; but to the extent that Stone maintains the primacy of sexual duality, her revision fails to address the claims of multiplicity on their own terms. In this paper, I interpret a passage from Marcel Proust's novel, Sodom and Gomorrah , in order to develop an alternative theory of sexual difference in which sexual...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 142–172.
Published: 01 September 2010
... argues that critics consistently interpret such repetitions through the opposing frameworks of either parody or trauma, which consign them to imagining a racial subject who is either entirely in possession of the past or entirely possessed by it; who either stages a cathartic emancipation from historical...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 165–174.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in mobilizing certain “outmoded” feminist theoretical questions for the power of the productive disturbances they can create in the interpretation of sources—in a field that takes the past as its subject but has come, increasingly, to denigrate the past of its own conceptual possibilities in its present-day...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2010
...,” examining its accounts of description and “minimal critical agency” and its skepticism concerning radical freedom and the interpretative heroics of literary analysis from the point of view of Althusser's radically different account of reading as a “guilty” practice, one marked by productivity...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Étienne Balibar An important part of the new interest for the work of Louis Althusser (1918–1990) has focused on his interpretation of “materialist theater,” as proposed in a famous essay from 1962. This is, in fact, hardly separable from discussing again the “pragmatic” reading of his theory...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 242–261.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Gila Ashtor Taking Lauran Berlant’s “cruel optimism” as exemplary of recent attempts to integrate psychoanalysis and ideology critique, this essay focuses on the psychological paradigm underlying such an evocative phrase in order to demonstrate that even the most capacious interpretations...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 25–47.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of chace.” Wantonness is an important concept for Hogarth, denoting the mental state of a spectator who encounters a beautiful object. Wantonness is also a touchstone in interpretive accounts of Paradise Lost , exemplifying on the level of language the mimetic problems involved in Milton’s representation...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... (2004) as a work that explores the consequences of a Schillerian aesthetic education. It does so through an encounter with the radical unreadability that, as Bad Education suggests, spurs interpretive endeavors. In its effort to make visible nothing as such , to depict what can only be understood...
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