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differences (2016) 27 (2): 62–78.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2016 sexual difference gender futurity Jacques Derrida Barbara Johnson I have often thought that the naming of our programs has been wrong. On one level, it is tedious to think about such institutional...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 27–61.
Published: 01 July 1994
... of Naming .” The European Journal of Women's Studies 1 . 1 ( 1994 ): 11 – 27 . Rubin Gayle . “ The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex .” Towards an Anthropology of Women . Ed. Rapp Rayna Reiter . New York : Monthly Review , 1975 . 157 – 210 . Verbeek...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 244–251.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Michael Lucey In Thoughts and Things , Bersani juxtaposes Jean Genet’s novel, Our Lady of the Flowers with some of Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking about how naming works. Bersani finds in Genet’s novel a moment of unnamability that is, for him, a challenge to the legitimating naming power of the state...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 152–165.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Kimberly Juanita Brown This essay examines the iterations of patriarchy that seamlessly appear in heteronormative familial structures. Specifically, the paper illuminates the practice of patronymic naming—from surnames to name duplications (juniors) in the overarching framework of patriarchy...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Mairead Sullivan This keyword explores how the Pence machine, as the regulatory policy driver behind the Trump administration, is rolling back rights for women and LGBTQ communities. Of note, this work is being done in the name of a moral majority, even against the backdrop of a braggart president...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
.../feminists in various sites of the neoliberal university. Narrating two experiences at Ivy League institutions, this essay meditates on the voids created and inhabited when the gravity of black study’s insistence on blackness as essential to the construction of modernity collapsed into and under the name...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 63–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Andrea Long Chu This essay argues that feminism is impossible. After examining a recent #MeToo episode—a bad sexual encounter between actor Aziz Ansari and a woman named Grace—as a case study in feminist disappointment, the essay turns to several key seventies feminist texts to reconstruct...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... argues that literature–in the modern sense of the term–necessitated literary theory from its very beginnings because of the manner in which it was constituted, namely as a conditioned opening of unconditionality, a fragile, not predetermined potentiality that calls for ever new theorizations...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 148–178.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Nancy Armstrong; Leonard Tennenhouse This essay argues that sovereignty, both the form of government and the law it constitutes, can be understood in terms of what it keeps out and at bay—namely, historically specific forms of formlessness. Assuming that formlessness does indeed have a form...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., on the other hand, theorizes not the event but the drive to theorize the event—including the event of femininity—to make it precisely some thing , a symptom. But, as Lacan emphasized, the facts miss the point, and naming things is not the same as being able to articulate “the thing” of lack, the real...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
... these: the “subject effect” and the “shame effect.” What links these different effects, the author argues, is that in every case the effect is closely tied to a process of naming or stepping forth— what is here called “instantiation.” A theoretical account of instantiation is therefore necessary if we...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of assertions of Western superiority; and justifications of international intervention and transnational governance in the name of women's rights, including by feminists. This essay has benefited from the contributions of many: students in my courses at Columbia University and the faculty, Anupama Rao...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 111–145.
Published: 01 May 2011
...? This article approaches these questions from an unusual angle, focusing on the passing of competition and antitrust laws and the establishment of a Competition Authority in Turkey alongside the story of a fictional institute called The Clock Setting Institute in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novel of the same name...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 146–171.
Published: 01 May 2011
... was proximate to the site to which the information referred. This article argues that if “archive” is the name we give to the power to make and command what took place here or there, in this or that place, and thus what has an authoritative place in the contemporary organization of social life, the postcolonial...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2016
... studies is thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field’s variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the name of a multifaceted epistemological problem. This essay focuses on the problem of translation as a form and act of crossing...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
... or to engage viscerally with the past. He thereby opens up new registers for taking in and taking account of the historical, registers that refuse to concede pleasure in the name of trauma, which has been treated as the more properly political affect by most criticism. © 2008 by Brown University...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and Paradise” analyzes accretions of stories about the Assassins to see how the Assassins got their name, were believed to anticipate an Islamic paradise in the afterlife, and came to represent for the West a volatile nexus of sex and violence. This effort of literary archeology considers both Eastern...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
... related to sexual difference, namely, the case of transgenerational guilt and that of the child who emerges into heterosexuality despite being raised by two parents of the same sex. Acknowledging Mitchell’s suggestion that sexual difference is marked by recalcitrance, but refusing the way in which she...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 136–164.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to institute a more complex historiography, Althusser invents a version of what came to be known simply as “theory.” ( Théorie was the name of Althusser’s series at Maspero, in which Reading Capital and many of his subsequent works appeared.) Thus, while this essay, on the one hand, discloses the limits...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., for the animal marks a point at which language or narrative is unequal to itself. The singular, constitutive thresholds or folds of these fables in turn betray something of how language or narrative might work, in what nameless bodies—and even bodiless names—it secretly trades. thangam ravindranathan...
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