... to establish forms of equivalence between the power of the mistress and that of the master. Because this normalization of white women’s power nonetheless relies on standards of historiographical interpretation—the predominance of political economy, the imperatives of affect and agency—it does not sufficiently...

... Christian discourse of the human soul's struggle to master the “habits of this life,” the author calls attention to an alternative conception of habitual bodily being that gives expression to the latter's fundamental ambi-valence . The habitual body of the multitude is read as an ontological structure...

... a visual origin or point of reference. The inherent uncanniness of the voice—whether it be the dog’s absent master, man’s distant lover, or woman’s internalized other—is normalized by digital technologies such as MP3 compression. Depending on the conditions of production, distribution, and reception...

...Figure 1 The Master’s Discourse ( Clemens and Grigg, introduction 3 ) ...

... when read in its immediate context of Master Humphrey’s Clock , a weekly periodical. The text’s repetition of stylistic elements, the composition and placement of woodcut images, and the enforced interruptions of the serial form introduce pauses, or moments of arrested time, into the movement...

... does he find that history? He goes to his native state, to his native country, to his native tou'n; but nowhere does he find any record of himself as a man. (James 11: C. Pennington, qtd. in Sekora "Black Message" 512) No more master's callfor me, No more, no more, No more master's callfor me, Many...

... obedience of all servants to all masters. On the plane of religion, morality, and the sexual politics of everyday life, he inevitably will cut the audacious figure of a man who uses women for his sexual pleasure from the age of sixteen until his conversion to Christianity at thirty-two, praying to God...

..., whispering sweet nothings in her ear in her husband’s voice, and cruelly forcing Linda to relate the details of Dr. Flint’s sexual harassment amount to sexual abuse—what Sánchez-Eppler labels “erotic domination”—and make the mistress a “sexual culprit” along with the master. See Abdur-Rahman 43–45. See also...

... capitalism Jacques Lacan James Bulger case master/slave dialectic security While the paradigm shift inaugurating our contemporary era tends to hinge on the fall of the Berlin Wall or the attacks of September 11, 2001, little attention has been paid to an event that, in an approach to what Sigmund...

... operandi , their aims, their needs—usually tilt toward one of the four possibilities that constitute the discursive landscape: In the master’s discourse the dominant value is the subject’s certainty, and the Other is configured (for the subject) in such a way that it supports such certainty. The master...

... the perspective of its victims. Pringle fulfills this political objective, however, by presenting Prince both as the abused victim of cruel masters and as a socioethical being who is active in obtaining her freedom. Her actions converge so as to reaffirm the political mission of the antislavery campaign...

... . Durham, nc: Duke up, 1997 . Berlin, Ira. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South . New York: New Press, 1974 . Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh. The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities . New York: St. Martin's, 1997 . The Black...

... an event to disrupt the philosophical will to master tragic effect: he collaborates in the production of a performance. He translates into French Holderlin's German translation of Sophocles' Greek Antigone. An ingeniously simple idea, and one that is astounding to philosophy: to put on a play. If we take...

... be filled in. Those empty spaces illustrate perfectly the dominant ideology in the developed world, which perceives the individual as the ultimate master of his or her life. In today’s consumer society the individual is not only perceived...

... Academy, Aristotle’s Lyceum, but also the hugely important example of Epicurus’s Garden. Such schools are institu- tions of an informal kind, usually organized around a charismatic master and devoted to the transmission of the master’s teaching...

... Benjamin R. Curtis in Scott v. Sandford : “There can be no more effectual abandonment of the legal rights of a master over his slave, than by the consent of the master that the slave should enter into a contract of marriage, in a free state” (qtd. in Hunter 62). Each in its own way a “peculiar institution...

... the significance of the father and which are tantamount to an overcoming of castration, while maintaining the significance of the ego ideal. But the ego ideal is the very structure of master signifiers in Lacan's terms. Deutsch supposes that the master signifiers may be left undisturbed. Indeed she appears...