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differences (2001) 12 (1): 112–140.
Published: 01 May 2001
... –58. Fraser, David. “The First Cut Is (Not) The Deepest.” Dallhousie Law Journal 18.7 ( 1995 ): 310 –79. Gennep, Arnold van. The Rites of Passage .London: Routledge, 1977 . Gould, Carol C. Marx's Social Ontology . Cambridge, Mass.: mit P, 1981 . Halperin, David M. Saint Foulcault...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 126–138.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Mary Beth Mader This commentary opens with an exposition of Alison Stone's novel reading of Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. This reading proposes that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference is a realist essentialism that reposes upon a general ontology of natural rhythm whose...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 179–193.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and yet strictly binds together the two individuations that he calls psychique and collective , which is necessary, he argues, to avoid the double failure of psychologism and sociologism, by which he means the doctrines that assign a fixed (ontological) identity to man and his mind, on the one hand...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 128–167.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., as well as engaging the feminist theory of Judith Butler. While addressing such topics as globalization, terrorism, violence, and vulnerability, the question of ontology is central to the interview. Cavarero refines Arendt's perspective and emphasizes an ontology of singularity characterized...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Andrés Fabián Henao Castro Departing from where Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Martin Heidegger’s gender-neutral Dasein left off, this article argues for “ontological captivity” as a critical analytic for questioning Being under conditions of racial capitalism. Based on a broad understanding...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the ontological claim of particularity in order to posit a noncausal relation between what we do, think, eat, wear, profess, on the one hand, and what we are, on the other. This interruption of ontology leads also to an eruption of the many layers in which we live our lives—across sexes, genders, religions...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 73–102.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Under Augustine's self-examining gaze, habit comes to be construed as the symptom of man's metaphysical “fallenness” into a state of “entanglement in the multitude”: an inhuman structure of ontological constriction at the heart of the human. By tracing the genealogy of sovereignty back to the early...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 51–71.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Samo Tomšič This essay revisits Margaret Thatcher’s notorious claim: “There is no such thing as society.” Not only does this remark sum up the neoliberal political programmatic but it also, and more fundamentally, exposes an entire political ontology, which organizes the antisocial tendencies...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to articulate an onto-ethics of singularity and correspondences, of nonrelatedness and unity, in a way that comes to inform his post-1980s work on queer theory and queer ethics. It is Bersani’s commitment to ontology that renders his work, despite its influence on a number of fields, something of an anomaly...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Lee Edelman Taking queerness as one of the figural names for ontological exclusion (that is, for whatever a particular regime of social being forecloses), this essay focuses on how such a queerness effects an impossible pedagogy that aspires to teach us nothing. Rather than a site of emptiness...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2011
...”; and finally, the edge of modernity of which Kafka is the major harbinger. The article argues for a view in which sound, and the particular experience of sound in Kafka’s context, can be taken as an ontological opening with ample ramifications in contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis. mladen dolar...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 140–167.
Published: 01 December 2011
... exchanges. As such, it asks what role the voice plays in the ongoing game of fort-da that underlies everyday human experience, and whether the ontological stakes change in different technological situations and environments. Paying particular attention to the gendered voice, this piece attempts to steer...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 May 2023
... about the very panhuman condition of “being-togetherness” that Bersani and Dutoit have registered in the ontology of Alain Resnais’s and Terrence Malick’s films. This peculiar “community of all being” is based on a specific (and paradoxical) kind of movement within the spatiality of a remembrance...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 May 2023
... an ontological enmeshment. This essay homes in on a passage in Homos that presages an important pivot in Bersani’s intellectual trajectory: a pivot from a dialectical conception of a subjectivity forever alienated and at odds with external reality to an immanentist understanding of a subject always already...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Mikko Tuhkanen Can we appear in the world otherwise than seduced by the promise of its suffering? Persistently returning to this question, Leo Bersani seeks the potential for the human subject’s nonsadistic reinitiation. He does this by visiting the “ontological laboratories” of Baudelaire, Freud...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 May 2023
... models of nondual consciousness and brings Bersani’s later writings into conversation with musical experience. In Bersani’s encounter with Proust and music, musical experience proffers a powerful ego solvent in favor of ontological interpenetration. An attention to music—here, that of Morton Feldman...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and transforming philosophies in light of their constitutive exclusions. An example of this, explored here, is Irigaray's expansion and transformation of Merleau-Ponty's late ontology of flesh in light of its constitutive exclusion, the “maternal sojourn.” This article also asks whether rhythmic sexual difference...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 May 2023
... reading of a sentence from Homos forms the refrain for a discussion of the ontology of sexuality, the exclusionary nature of desire, resistances of self and world, and the nature of habit. [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 May 2010
... entailed not just a widening of focus but a critique of psychoanalysis as ahistorical and an abandonment of the notion of sexual difference in favor of gender. Gender, Copjec argues in this paper, is a neutered term; it eliminates sex. It is time, this essay proposes, to provide an ontological reflection...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 202–223.
Published: 01 December 2024
... anything exceptional about trans people’s unkillability in this regard. 16 Dean Spade’s use of the term seems not to bear this ontological significance, being styled explicitly as a strategic lever for work with and against law. See Spade . 17 On the attempted eradication of hijras...
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