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The Killer Within: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the Roman World

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Sarah Currie
differences (1996) 8 (2): 153–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8-2-153
Published: 01 July 1996
...: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the ROlllan World be murderous came in many guises in the ancient Roman world, as parricides, poisoners, witches, assassins, rebels, corrupt officials, fire-setters, ship-wreckers, and robbers. The virtuous were besieged on all sides by murderous hordes who could...
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Speaking of Noise: From Murderous Loudness to the Crackle of Silk

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James A. Steintrager
differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 249–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1428915
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Sound Art . London : Continuum , 2010 . Žižek Slavoj . For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor . London : Verso , 2008 . james a. steintrager Speaking of Noise: From Murderous Loudness...
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The Ruth in (T)ruth: Redactive Reading and Feminist Provocations to History in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

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Nicole Gervasio
differences (2019) 30 (2): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7736021
Published: 01 September 2019
...Nicole Gervasio This essay coins the concept of redactive reading to describe a method for interpreting women’s absences in racialized and gendered histories of collective trauma through M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 poem, Zong! In 1781, the Zong crew murdered as many as 150 African captives following...
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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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“What Does Death Represent to the Individual?” Psychoanalysis and Wartime

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Lyndsey Stonebridge
differences (2009) 20 (1): 102–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2008-018
Published: 01 May 2009
... violence, which is where Klein takes that critique fifteen years later. What starts as a question for Freud about how it is that war legitimizes a murderous representation of the other becomes, in Klein, a question about the morality of mourning. In wartime, this morality becomes political, as Klein's...
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Unequal Metrics: Animals Passing in La Fontaine, Poe, and Chevillard

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Thangam Ravindranathan
differences (2013) 24 (3): 1–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2391941
Published: 01 December 2013
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay considers through a string of three fables—a classic wolf trap in La Fontaine, Poe’s story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and contemporary French novelist Eric Chevillard’s Sans l’orang-outan— the animal as the paradoxical, derealized figure of a passing. Drawing...
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Incongruity

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John Paul Ricco
differences (2023) 34 (1): 156–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-10435716
Published: 01 May 2023
.... This sheds light on Bersani’s familiar notions of inaccurate replication and homo-narcissism within his broader exploration of potential intimacies pleasurably discovered via a sense of universal sameness as opposed to the often murderous fixation on identity and difference. Incongruity institutes...
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Unheimlichkeit in Kinderheim and Stammheim: Memories of Baader-Meinhof

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Elizabeth Stewart
differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-6681668
Published: 01 May 2018
...Elizabeth Stewart Interrogating the politics of memory in contemporary German and Austrian representations of the “German Autumn” and its conclusion in late 1977, marked by the murder/suicide of the Red Army Faction’s early leadership in the Stammheim prison in Stuttgart, this essay highlights...
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Death and Fairy Tale: Queer Autothanatography in Claude Vivier

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Andrew Kingston
differences (2020) 31 (2): 30–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8662160
Published: 01 September 2020
...Andrew Kingston The music of the spectralist composer Claude Vivier is often considered through the lens of autobiography. However, from his abandonment as an infant to the circumstances of his murder at the age of thirty-four, certain aspects of Vivier’s life also seem to resist any...
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Have I Been Destroyed? Answering to Authority and the Politics of the Father

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Avital Ronell
differences (2010) 21 (1): 48–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-016
Published: 01 May 2010
... philosophy when it did nothing to prevent the state's murder of Socrates. Philosophy was too puny to fight the power. Authority and its cognates gave Plato the arsenal he needed to upgrade the philosophical stance and give it an antiballistic shield. Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Kojève show concern over...
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Framing Cultural Difference: Immigrant Women and Discourses of Tradition

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Leti Volpp
differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218256
Published: 01 May 2011
...Leti Volpp This article shows how depictions of immigrant culture can limit the lives of immigrants to a problematic battle between “tradition and modernity.” As illustrated in the portrayal of a case in which immigrant parents murdered their teenaged daughter, Tina Isa, the discourse of tradition...
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Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the “Custom” In Turkey

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Dicle Koğacioğlu
differences (2011) 22 (1): 172–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218283
Published: 01 May 2011
...Dicle Koğacioğlu This article begins with the observation that the honor crime (the murder of a woman by her family because of actual or deemed sexual acts that are considered an offense to the culturally defined terms of family honor) has received increasing attention in Turkey during the last...
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The Era of Lost (White) Girls: On Body and Event

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Rebecca Wanzo
differences (2008) 19 (2): 99–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2008-005
Published: 01 September 2008
... . Harris, Frederick C. “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement.” Social Movement Studies 5.1 ( 2006 ): 19 -43. Headley, Bernard. The Atlanta Child Murders and the Politics of Race . Carbondale: Southern Illinois up, 1999...
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Statistical Panic

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KATHLEEN WOODWARD
differences (1999) 11 (2): 177–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-177
Published: 01 September 1999
... of Feeling.” The uts Review 5.1 ( 1999 ): 1 –5. murder and murder . Dir. Yvonne Rainer. Zeitgeist Films, 1996 . Petro, Patrice. “After Shock/Between Boredom and History.” Fugitive Images . Ed. Patrice Petro. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995 . 265 –84. Poovey, Mary. “Accommodating Merchants...
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Capital Punishment, Atonement, and the Christian Right

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Randall Styers
differences (2007) 18 (3): 97–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2007-012
Published: 01 December 2007
....” The Death Penalty: A Defense . 2005 . http://www.yesdeathpenalty.com/argument_15.htm . Bailey, William C., and Ruth D. Peterson. “Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Literature.” The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies . Ed. Hugo Adam Bedau. New York: Oxford up...
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“The Delirium of Interpretation”: Writing the Papin Affair

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Christopher Lane
differences (1993) 5 (2): 24–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-2-24
Published: 01 July 1993
... Investigation of Sexual Murder . Cambridge : Polity , 1987 . Carr Helen . “ The Love that Transforms Life .” Women's Review 12 Oct. 1986 : 26 - 27 . Chadwick Whitney . Women and the Surrealist Movement . London : Thames , 1985 . Clément Catherine . The Lives...
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After All: Traces of the Literary in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism (a Historical Novel)

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Nell Wasserstrom
differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8662146
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the repressed trauma of the murder of the primal father (as discussed in Totem and Taboo [1913]), which is reawakened in the Jewish people’s murder of their leader Moses, just as an individual’s neurosis is a belated pathological reaction to the repressed childhood experiences of castration anxiety...
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Seductions of the “Honor Crime”

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Lila Abu-Lughod
differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218238
Published: 01 May 2011
.... 2006 . http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/opt1106 . Hussein Taha . The Call of the Curlew [Du'a' Al-Karawan] . Trans. As-Safi A. B. . Leiden : Brill , 1980 . Husseini Rana . Murder in the Name of Honour . Oxford : Oneworld , 2009 . ———. Personal interview . Amman...
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Serial Killers (1)

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Mark Seltzer
differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-1-92
Published: 01 April 1993
... . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1986 . Benjamin Walter . Charles Baudelaire . Trans. Zohn Harry . London : Verso , 1983 . Bersani Leo . “ Is the Rectum a Grave? ” October 43 ( 1989 ): 194 - 222 . Black Joel . The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature...
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Unbearable Witness: Toward a Politics of Listening

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WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN
differences (1999) 11 (1): 112–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-1-112
Published: 01 May 1999
... to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism . New York: Oxford UP, 1994 . Hurst, Lynda. “Legacy of the Montreal Massacre.” Toronto Star 1 Dec. 1990 : A1 . Johnson, Anthony. “Mood Varies Among Engineers at U of C:Some Resent Use of Murder for Political Purposes.” Calgary Herald 6 Dec. 1991 : C12...
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