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...Eugenie Brinkema This article posits an absolute difference between the regime of silence and the regime of near inaudibility. The regime of silence pivots equally on avowals of the possibility of sound’s absence and on negated versions, such as John Cage’s declaration, “There is no such thing...

... that despite the tenacity of male governance, female in-laws wield tremendous power in the rites that widows deem discriminatory. While interlocutors in this essay stress the near impossibility of a widow escaping the tentacles of authority and the empathy deficit stemming from it, others who have resisted...

... the square-turned-near-rectangle commands our attention with its very vacancy. The near-rectangle is a cage which imprisons nothing. — The Forms of Violence 131 The Forms of Violence ends with a series of reflections on an Assyrian wall relief that shows a lion leaving its cage. Above the lion...

... as of yet unmarked ontological relations with each other. “The blurring of boundaries works,” Bersani and Dutoit write, “for the most part, very differently in Jarman. His Turneresque reductions of the visual field to blankets of near whiteness initiates nothing; it ends everything. He blinds us...

..., at the place within him gathered under and by that name, which is now a bare name without bearer. It remains the name of someone who is now only within him and within all the others whom Barthes touched, from near and afar, his...

... of the near and not so near futures may make much of our thinking about what needs to be done entirely irrelevant, it is not for us to dictate policies or projects. Thus, Stengers asks herself, “[W]hat can one make today that could eventually be a resource for those who will come after us?” (43; my...

... since, at the time that he is speaking, he knows that he is nearing his death. So is this a biographical insight into the person, Derrida? Can we say that Derrida happened to be uneducable in this regard but that surely other people...

... a tray into the dining room. “No, you were, ” came the reply. “Remember when you almost fell with that bowl of soup . . . , ” launching into a joke about one of their many near-fatal encounters in front of a camp guard. The sisters...

.... Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking . New York: Fordham up, 2005 . akira mizuta lippit Aftereffects of the End of the World (“i ♥ ny”) The end is near, in some ways...

... that suggest all that remains of the barracks burned as Allied troops moved nearer and the war was coming to a close. But there were the sounds as well as the sights: the blackbirds, the cows, the dogs, all somewhere in the near distance...

... of the irony of “a poetic voice” that “intimately disavows its own proximity to the living” (36). 5 Giving an Account of Oneself maps an ecology of nearness that comes closer to the aliveness of Dickinson’s lines and the impossibility therein of anything so definitive as disavowal. “At this point,” Butler...

.... It was a small town, and my grandparents had two houses, one on the town street and one at the outskirts, near a stream across from fields. They lived near the synagogue . In notes that my mother prepared in the 1960s for a talk she...

... the “overworked little trapezist girl” James figures her as near the novel’s end (503): an art that only remakes, works over, the self. But such art could only be “incapable of being represented” if we imagined it as, finally, impervious to reference, as something like pure tautology. The end of the novel...

... , 1987 . Naether Carl A. Advertising to Women . New York : Prentice-Hall , 1928 . Nearing Scott . Social Adjustment . New York : Macmillan , 1911 . Pruette Lorine . Women and Leisure: A Study of Social Waste . New York : E.P. Dutton , 1924 . Schreiner Olive...

... as it is in “the collusion [one wants also to say “the collision ”] of ego-identities” ( Bersani and Phillips, Intimacies 117 ), should make them seem. If there is a “psychic utopia” to be had, so it appears, it is its nearness not its farness that is at once tantalizing, problematic, and promising. To be sure, lessening...

... psychotherapy for the poor, which I shall term accessibility, adaptability, and holistic mental health solutions. First, the therapeutic service is not terminated at will, just as psychomachia does not cease even or especially when the pandemic brings the world to a near standstill. Second, the constitutive...

... the aporia that makes his work what it is than the notion of the authorless theater ( un théâtre sans auteur ), which makes a brief appearance near the end of his introduction to Reading Capital . Balibar’s title, “Althusser’s Dramaturgy,” declares both the dramaturgy at work in his texts and the theory...

... Macbeth is a member of the Scots nobility, Thane of Glamis, and in the opening scenes of the play he is awarded the additional title of Thane of Cawdor. But while his lineage positions him near King Duncan, it also fixes him...

..., littered with chefs in various states of frenetic rhythmic activity, aurally overtaken by the plaintively sung Miserere of the young boy Pup and a near-constant stream of speech by the homonymic speaker Spica, a monologue in which...

... that nevertheless harbors life within it; seed as valuably unique, seed as plural, scattered fruitlessly or spilled onanistically; seed as slowly maturing, seed as potentially explosive. I shall eventually be discussing some language near the end of Daniel Deronda, in the section called "Fruit and Seed," but I want...