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differences (2006) 17 (3): 88–106.
Published: 01 December 2006
... at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. He is the author, most recently, of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and the editor of Things , a special issue of Critical Inquiry that has been republished in book form (University of Chicago...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 1–9.
Published: 01 December 2011
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of Modern Art, New
York, NY.
rey chow and james a. steintrager
In Pursuit of the Object of Sound:
An Introduction
“If something is to stay in the memory,” writes Friedrich
Nietzsche in The Genealogy of Morals, “it must be burned in: only...
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 41–54.
Published: 01 July 1990
...Karen Newman Copyright © 1990 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1990 Works Cited Adorno Theodor . “ Subject and Object .” Arato 497 - 511 . Adorno Theodor . Minima Moralia . Trans. Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 1–26.
Published: 01 July 1994
... of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1992 . Williams Linda . Hard Core . Berkeley : U of California P , 1989 . Introduction I Against Proper Objects JUDITH BUTLER A set of paradoxes has emerged within recent debates...
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 3 A household cluttered with mundane objects and laundry obstructs our view of Lucia returning home with piles of packages. The Reckless Moment , Max Ophuls, 1949.
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 197–205.
Published: 01 December 2012
... revolve around the extent to which science’s objects are “real” or, put more formally, to what extent objects of human inquiry exist outside their investigation. This essay critiques two important interlocutors in the debate—Butler and Latour—to argue that this is the wrong question to ask. Resisting...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 79–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Clare Hemmings As a way of trying to ensure that feminism remains accountable and inclusive, there is an institutional tendency to multiply the subjects and objects of inquiry within women’s and gender studies. While sympathetic to this impulse, this essay also recognizes that such pluralization...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 54–73.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and reenacted performance could be said to be the same. Taking fidelity not as an objective measure of sameness but rather as a mediation between machinery and people, the author finds in the discourse around the re-enacting piano echoes of the nineteenth-century scientific “mechanical objectivity” identified...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 235–239.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound—and one that characterizes specific instruments as such—the concept actually lumps together a number of different and irreducibly particular...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 240–248.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound—and one that characterizes specific instruments as such—the concept actually lumps together a number of different and irreducibly particular...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 34–52.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Gerhard Richter This article pursues the possibility of a non-reified thinking in the act of “rescuing” through critique. If the objective of such thinking were to rescue something without thereby becoming affirmative, to retain something that is about to disappear for good without thereby becoming...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 65–85.
Published: 01 September 2017
... that the feminine eroticizes the body and orients the drive toward its impossible object and that analysis is interminable because in both men and women the feminine is rejected by the ego. Lacan largely passes over Freud’s bisexual thesis. Through his reading of Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus takes up Fliess’s...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 42–73.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., they are made valuable. This essay focuses on two extreme cases of life-logging that make use of prototypical recording technologies: that of Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft, who is on a quest to record his life for the sake of increased objectivity, productivity, and digital posterity...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 259–266.
Published: 01 May 2023
...David Lloyd This essay discusses a remark on the eye and the mouth in Bersani and Dutoit’s Caravaggio’s Secrets that links Caravaggio to Samuel Beckett. Exploring the idea of the gaze and the voice as “things” rather than objects that confirm the subject in its place, and connecting Bersani’s...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 97–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., but it has also kept our sights set, perhaps too set, on deciphering the Asian woman both in the context of romance and as an object of desire. This essay recasts the narrative of Asian/white sexuality as one of minoritarian retribution, making the argument that insofar as Asian femininity forms the object...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 33–57.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the other sex, unhousing man, exposing his subjectivity as not-whole, and sheltering him in a more open and unhomely existential home. The first section outlines man’s efforts to carve form and thought from primordial flux and to establish a world and home defined by discrete objects. As the second section...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in such a way as to incessantly cross its own boundaries. From such a perspective, literary theory can be reenvisioned as having always been multiple and inherently divided, a conglomerate of monsters, a differential force field destined to move beyond its “proper” object and to integrate different approaches...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., the familiar, status quo, or routine—this section demonstrates the importance of renewing queer theoretical attention to the conceptual and political particularity of normativity as a distinct object of inquiry. The authors’ aim is not to dismiss the political agenda that antinormativity has come to represent...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., especially in the twentieth century. The condition of such an inquiry is not a set of abstract concepts, but a phenomenology of extreme violence that exceeds any rational political objective. Such violence is often theorized through such negative categories as evil or extermination and thus continues in some...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to trafficking in migrant laborers. The article posits a model of salability, based on disposable life and recycled humanity, where entry into the market as either subject or object is the condition of survival in the modern security regime. Against a terrain of precariously asserted and suspended subjectivity...
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