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The Longing for the Material
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
Published: 01 May 2006
... . Wolin, Richard. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption . Berkeley: u of California p, 1994 . karyn ball
The Longing for the Material
It does appear that on many, many...
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From Code to Shape: Material-Semiotic Imbrications in the “Particle Zoo” of Molecular Poetics
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 134–172.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Ada Smailbegović This essay aims to expand what constitutes processes of signification to include the recalcitrant, folded materialities of molecular interaction, suggesting that molecules may act as signs, in a biosemiotic sense, without spiriting away the embodiment of their situated, three...
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The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 95–122.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and Body Schema: An Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Study . Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1989 . gayle salamon
The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material
Every body contains...
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Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 87–128.
Published: 01 July 1998
.... Jasanoff S. , et al . Los Angeles : Sage , 1994 . 29 – 63 . Casper Monica . “ Reframing and Grounding Nonhuman Agency: What Makes a Fetus an Agent? ” American Behavioral Scientist 37 . 6 (May 1994 ): 839 – 56 . Ebert Teresa . “ The Matter of Materialism .” The Material...
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The Imaginary Materiality of Writing in Poe's “Ligeia”
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 53–75.
Published: 01 September 1999
.... James A. Harrison. New York: AMSPress, 1965 . 193 –208. Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic . Trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1975 . DOROTHEA VON MÜCKE
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Ontological Captivity: Toward a Black Radical Deconstruction of Being
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the Black Radical tradition, the author argues for the importance of connecting the analysis of ontological difference with the political critique of concrete historical and material conditions that structurally link what it means to be human to overlapping and mutually reinforcing technologies of capture...
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Freud’s Australia
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of instinctive and passionate “savages” by redeploying the terrain of the instinctive onto collective forms of social organization. At the same time, European instincts were believed to achieve greater independence from the material stuff of daily life, being increasingly figured as outside of either social...
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“This Is Not a Copy”: Mechanical Fidelity and the Re-Enacting Piano
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 54–73.
Published: 01 December 2011
... by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. The re-enacting piano’s “mechanical fidelity” was developed in the laboratory and advertising copy as a conjunction of objectivity, materiality, and identity. Through a commingling of traits that had formerly been considered either human or mechanical, the re-enacting...
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On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing Glove
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering. Emerging from techniques of “the material voice” in deaf oral education, hearing gloves were increasingly applied to voice standardization and efficient transmission. Contrary to scholarship that emphasizes...
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On the Lapidary Style
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 17–36.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Denise Riley “The lapidary style” suggests a manner of writing that runs close to working a material—carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets. Poised between the properties of the stone and of the jewel, this term holds the tensions of stone’s solidity and light’s refraction...
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Althusser’s Materialist Theater: Ideology and Its Aporias
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 81–106.
Published: 01 November 2015
... writings. Offering a reading of Althusser’s theory of ideology from the perspective of aleatory materialism, the essay calls attention to the radical instability of structures and the role of struggle in social reproduction that is otherwise hidden from view. The author also extrapolates a new conception...
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Rhythm and the Cold War Imaginary: Listening to John Adams’s Nixon in China
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 190–210.
Published: 01 December 2011
... rhythm to conceptualize alternatives to the reified visual world, but his work reveals the tension between metaphorical treatments of rhythm and its sonic materiality. Turning to music as an aesthetic form defined by this relationship, the author draws on the work of Jacques Attali, Rose Rosengard...
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Black Sex in the Quiet
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
... conceptions of black erotic freedom. Given that both silence and publicity are fraught spaces for black sexual injury and its redress, this essay posits that a discursive and material space like what Kevin Quashie has theorized as “the quiet” offers black women and the black feminist imagination alternative...
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What Is “Digital Humanities,” And Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 46–63.
Published: 01 May 2014
... secret—digital humanities wants it that way. Yet the zero-sum agon of the construct seems itself complicit in a worldview that is neoliberal, ahistorical, and unconcerned with the materialities of contemporary scholarly production. Sometimes, and not incidentally, the construct can even resemble...
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Sleights of Capital: Fantasies of Commensurability, Transparency, and a “Cultural Bourgeoisie”
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 101–126.
Published: 01 December 2013
... at self-representation, remain substantial obstacles to a nuanced understanding of the complicated relationship between aesthetic and material production. The article concludes with an inquiry into the specific work that discourse on cultural capital accomplishes in the contemporary global academy...
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Assyrians
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Adrian Rifkin This essay argues that Leo Bersani’s immersion in a discipline of reading theoretical and psychoanalytic texts and literature with close critical attention effectively writes out his observations from an epistemology of being gay. His attention to visual materials is similarly acute...
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The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 55–78.
Published: 01 September 2024
... activist, this essay directs urgent attention to the simultaneously material, spiritual, psychic, and affective dimensions of self-, knowledge-, and world-making. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 black feminism...
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Toward a Genealogy of the Wall-Screen
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 28–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Jinying Li This essay explores the genealogical overlap between the wall and the screen by tracing the material and discursive formation of China’s Great Firewall, a geoblocking system for network censorship, to the cultural history of ping (screen).The censoring effect of the Great Firewall...
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HOLD: SPACE
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the material dimensions (volume and capacity) of the hold of the slave ship but also the metaphysical violences that captive Africans underwent in the hold. Through poethical meditations on the hold of the ship, the essay offers Black holds as a practice of Black women’s sexuality. The essay concludes...
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Toward Mythic Feminist Theorizing: Simone Leigh and the Power of the Vessel
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Amber Jamilla Musser Simone Leigh’s eponymous show at the Luhring Augustine gallery in New York from September 6 to October 20, 2018 features a sculptural gathering of vessels, which themselves are a mode of black feminist theorizing. Working through the sculptural, this essay uses the materiality...
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