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Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality

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Karen Barad
differences (1998) 10 (2): 87–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-10-2-87
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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DOROTHEA VON MÜCKE
differences (1999) 11 (2): 53–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-53
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 The Imaginary Materiality of Writing in Poe’s “Ligeia...
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The Longing for the Material

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Karyn Ball
differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2005-004
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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The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material

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GAYLE SALAMON
differences (2004) 15 (3): 95–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-15-3-95
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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From Code to Shape: Material-Semiotic Imbrications in the “Particle Zoo” of Molecular Poetics

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Ada Smailbegović
differences (2018) 29 (1): 134–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-6681682
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 Performance of Poverty: On “Althusser’s Dramaturgy and the Critique of Ideology”

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Bruce Robbins
differences (2015) 26 (3): 107–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3340384
Published: 01 November 2015
... constraints. Althusser ideological state apparatus performance materialism Marxism Is ideology a kind of theater? If so, we would seem freer than we suspected to perform ideas other than those of the ruling class. Are we? Is it possible that revolution is as near at hand as a triumphant...
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Ontological Captivity: Toward a Black Radical Deconstruction of Being

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Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-9479702
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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Kathleen Frederickson
differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1629812
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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Nick Seaver
differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 54–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1428843
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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Mara Mills
differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1428852
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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Denise Riley
differences (2017) 28 (1): 17–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3821676
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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Banu Bargu
differences (2015) 26 (3): 81–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3340372
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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Toward Mythic Feminist Theorizing: Simone Leigh and the Power of the Vessel

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Amber Jamilla Musser
differences (2019) 30 (3): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7974002
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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The Rise of the Sea and the Novel

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Thangam Ravindranathan
differences (2019) 30 (3): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7973974
Published: 01 December 2019
... such a refocusing of our sights on the material effects on the earth of fossil-fueled capitalism and empire implies for reading today. © 2019 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2019 Marguerite Duras Un barrage contre le Pacifique/The Seawall Amitav Ghosh climate...
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The Abject Genealogies of Kenneth Halliwell (and Joe Orton)

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Ashley T. Shelden
differences (2020) 31 (1): 36–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8218760
Published: 01 May 2020
...—that do not necessarily “fit” with each other. In order to make this theoretical argument, the essay dwells on the figure of Kenneth Halliwell, the boyfriend and eventual murderer of the British playwright, Joe Orton. It examines archival materials in order to construct a microgenealogy of Halliwell...
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Cruising the Jerusalem Light Rail

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Jake Silver
differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8662202
Published: 01 September 2020
... material shape it took, and how it altered the colonial landscape—has entwined forms of surveillance, suspicion, and sexuality, deeply affecting how individuals gauge, judge, sense, watch, and seduce one another. Ideology, in other words, haunts pleasure as it lurks within and through built environments...
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Beyond Ontology and Sexual Difference: An Interview with the Italian Feminist Philosopher Adriana Cavarero

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Adriana Cavarero, Elisabetta Bertolino
differences (2008) 19 (1): 128–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2007-019
Published: 01 May 2008
... by the materiality of human uniqueness together with its necessary relationality and vulnerability. Sceptical of postmodern, poststructuralist, and deconstructive theories that share a refusal of ontology and an avoidance of metaphysical closure, Cavarero points out that such a refusal tends to think ontology...
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Rhythm and the Cold War Imaginary: Listening to John Adams’s Nixon in China

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Christopher Lee
differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 190–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1428888
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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What Is “Digital Humanities,” And Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum
differences (2014) 25 (1): 46–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2419997
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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Alexander Des Forges
differences (2013) 24 (3): 101–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2391968
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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