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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
...David L. Clark Leo Bersani is well known for making a case for the pleasures of sameness. But “to circulate within sameness,” he notes, “we must first of all welcome [ . . . ] lessness.” This essay explores that hospitable gesture in Bersani’s work, focusing on the self-abnegating practice...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 59–89.
Published: 01 December 2008
... that the essay draws out in the novel with the help of Derrida's meditations on religion and Nancy's revision of dialectical reason. The “house” of identity, the essay argues, is for Robinson less an enclosure than “a way of going outside” that reveals the negative ground of every determined or external...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 142–172.
Published: 01 September 2010
... less with the recuperation of the past than with the contradictions of the present, then, Walker's art offers an incisive account of a contemporary moment that compels iterative repetitions rather than allowing conclusive resolutions. Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 30–54.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jane Anna Gordon Revisiting Carole Pateman's classic discussion of women and consent, this essay advances a qualified defense of consent through defending a second, less hegemonic model of it as articulated most forcefully by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although difficult to realize, the author argues...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 55–103.
Published: 01 May 2013
... political engagement. The author proposes supplanting (temporarily, partially) the consenting adult with comparatively unsexy, less parsimonious elucidations of fairness and debility as provisional first principles of progressive sexual politics. Taking fairness and debility seriously would rightly extend...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 26–45.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the technocratic knowledge economy. But within that institutional situation, it has the capacity to tinker with the symbolic order of computing, such that it is not ultimately constrained by an agenda of efficiency, rationality, and optimization. Such an approach would contribute to the speculation of a less...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 235–239.
Published: 01 December 2011
... sonic phenomena. The continued use of the term timbre reveals less an investment in objectivity than an ongoing attachment to sonic origins and traditional instrumentation—an attachment that extended techniques and electronic manipulation, for example, have revealed as conceptually outmoded and thus...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 240–248.
Published: 01 December 2011
... sonic phenomena. The continued use of the term timbre reveals less an investment in objectivity than an ongoing attachment to sonic origins and traditional instrumentation—an attachment that extended techniques and electronic manipulation, for example, have revealed as conceptually outmoded and thus...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 300–312.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Iain Chambers Inspired by the Deleuzian imperative to think with , rather than of , cinema, this article considers Mediterranean music s less in terms of historical and cultural testimony and more as an ongoing composition of a mobile critical syntax. The southern and subaltern sounds...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 160–174.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the instrumentalist assumptions and economistic logic that many supporters share with their critics, the author seeks to redefine and defend the humanities by going back to the “sciences of the spirit,” Geisteswissenschaften , while understanding spirit less as an intangible element than as the paradigm...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Bersani’s famous essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” Homos , the no less polemical book that follows it, also theorizes another position: coitus a tergo , the approach to what is behind from behind. Through a reading of Genet’s wartime erotic novel Funeral Rites , which is replete with a tergo couplings...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 84–108.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Steven Swarbrick Freud’s readings of Shakespeare are notorious for their universalizing claims about human sexuality. What is less commonly noticed, and what this article foregrounds, is the asexuality that underwrites psychoanalytic theories of sex. Venus and Adonis shows that Shakespeare’s poem...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 May 2018
... anglophone readership have suddenly and single-mindedly stopped reproducing the domestic ideology on which the novel rose to hegemony, that to live minimally productive and happy lives, individuals, men no less than women, had to form households? What does this vanishing act mean for the affective labor...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that we begin to consider academic institutions through lenses less focused on the production of measurable knowledge and more attentive to the practice of teaching as an end in itself. He invites readers to imagine alternatives to current academic institutions, challenging us to envision better...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 32–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., “The Short Happy Life” has been a popular target of mainstream feminist critique. Far less attention has been paid to the story's racial dynamics, despite its African setting and the crucial role that both race and class, that is, “whiteness” and white privilege, play in advancing the narrative. Racializing...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 48–62.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Avital Ronell Exploring the cobelonging of the philosophical and the political, this essay reflects on the question of authority. Plato more or less invented authority when he sought to establish a reliable force that would intercede between power and persuasion. Rhetorical persuasion had failed...
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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 (2023) 34 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of us in sameness with each other . Insofar as we are reading the same passage, for example, we are reading with and alongside it and others; the passage becomes “the same” in this recursion and resonance, and we become part of the writing and a bit “ less than what we really are ” ( “Sociability” 47...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 96–116.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of personhood that conventions of self-account presuppose. The purported singularity of one person’s account versus another’s matters less for the task at hand than the experience of friction between our assumption of content and the quodlibet of form by which that content’s legibility is accomplished ( Agamben...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2005
... or less secret promise never to
do what he has just begun to do: “But what I thought impossible, indecent,
and unjustifi able, what long ago and more or less secretly and resolutely I
had promised myself never to do (out of a concern...
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