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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., this special issue considers psychoanalysis—theory and clinic—as the grounds for solidarity and political community, from the consulting room to the picket line. This extended introduction elaborates on the curative limitations and social dimensions of psychoanalysis by digging into a term—overdetermination...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jacques Khalip This article concentrates on the substance of audition in Derek Jarman's Blue . In his last feature film, Jarman makes a decisive ethical and aesthetic break: he shifts value away from the overdetermined cultural premiums associated with the visual ``spectacle'' and onto...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 81–106.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of subjectivity, a theory of “bad subjects,” that attempts to address the aporias of interpellation by making room for disobedience and resistance. The essay develops the idea of a layered subjectivity based on the overdetermined effect of contingently sequenced subjectivations and countersubjectivations...
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 167–176.
Published: 01 December 2006
...),
Johnson attempts to subvert the usual prominent place of race, seeing
race as an overdetermined category. In the Wright chapter, she looks at
the way the overdetermined place given to black women’s victimization
hides...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 296–313.
Published: 01 July 1994
... Symbolic order. On the contrary, it is the very constructedness of discourse, its overdetermination, and its slipperiness that allow for what Judith Butler calls "a reiterative or rearticulatory practice" (15). Put another way: it is precisely the intrinsically dialogic and situated character of discourse...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 60–68.
Published: 01 May 2023
... novelty of such unknown bequests. This is a physics of force, and certainly, there is a blurred line between a caress and coercion. Bersani’s sentences know this: after all, the fineness of that overdetermined difference is precisely why Bersani constantly keeps in motion the reminder that we should act...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 5–23.
Published: 01 September 2017
... conditions it and at the same time overdetermines a certain conception of the human being: juridicism, a certain state of dominant ideologies, and colonialism, a certain global strategy of the liberal economy. The scientism that results from these conditions, as the principal constraint placed on thinking...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 91–132.
Published: 01 November 1992
... starkly against its simplified colored surrounds which detaches it from the body and yet makes it stand in for the body - I want to interpret this as the formal signifier of more than an ideological content or historical situation. It is what Freud would call "overdetermined."s What made it viable...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 26–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
... theory as foundationally invested in categories of privilege and therefore bound to analytic models overdetermined by masculinity, middle-classness, and whiteness, de Lauretis insists that queer theory, unlike lesbian and gay studies, is a critical enterprise foundationally interested in race...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., in tandem show how Karim and Sahand contended not only with expectations of queer gender expression but also of areligious, if not secular, dispositions toward Islam. The politically overdetermined movement of Iranians has its specificities and lends itself well to tired tropes of civilizational differences...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 134–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
... functions as “both a structuring absence and the ultimate allegorical device for consolidating and indexing claims to subjecthood” ( Hollis 36 ). As Black people still live in the wake , a space overdetermined by slavery, where “the semiotics of the slave ship continue,” ungendering still ontologically...
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differences (1995) 7 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 1995
... sphere of reproductive politics. Conflicts of interest between men and women, between adults and children, and between generations, are channeled through the birth-control d fferences 5 debate but do not begin or end there; the forms of guilt or anxiety surrounding abortion are socially overdetermined...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 66–90.
Published: 01 November 1992
... bathing engulf the viewer in a fascination of the psychically overdetermined variety. It is possible to approach the fantasy of Degas's pictures both historically and theoretically in order to deconstruct that enigma. As the art publishing industry continues to demonstrate, Degas made many hundred images...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 153–177.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., of disentangling from their impacted and overdetermined historical relation to each other some of the separate elements of the intellectual baggage that many of us carry around under a label such as ‘the hermeneutics of suspicion’” (124). For Sedgwick, there are political stakes involved in the disentangling...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 63–89.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the broader representational landscape in which Black people are embedded. In this way he refuses to perpetuate the overdetermined relationship between blackness and pain, a relation that extends even to the sociological image, which has operated to produce people of color as types, often examples...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2023
... precisely of the value attributed to “fluidity,” as distinct from “fixity,” in both queer theoretical and psychoanalytical models of desire. In 2017, for a book on clinical encounters between queer theory and psychoanalysis, I wrote of how, in many ways, fluidity may be understood as the overdetermined...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 14–19.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (1972), and Arabian Nights (1974) (see Pasolini, Lutheran 49–52 ). Pasolini set the tone for the film’s overdetermined reception in the years and decades that followed. It has been judged to be pornographic, unwatchable, wicked, and stupidly literal. Thank goodness, then, for Bersani and Dutoit’s...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 124–156.
Published: 01 July 1989
... capitalism, I'm talking about capital, and, against it, the essence of nations, cultures, etcetera, deployed for the political management of capital. And today, to an extent, the "politics of overdetermination" is the newest twist in that management, even including the idea of an anti-essentialist...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): iii–xviii.
Published: 01 July 1991
... socially and sexually overdetermined, as Tomas Almaguer argues in his paper; and he may be offended by Epstein's notion of an "ethnic identity" of San Francisco gay people, regardless of color, in a society fully permeated by racism. A Chicana lesbian might well choose to make her community with Native...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 95–101.
Published: 01 December 2005
... inside a death camp seems all too contradictory, more than
overdetermined.
Then at Birkenau, in the afternoon, there I am overwhelmed by
the scale. I fi nd so many things heart- and mind-stopping: the rows upon...
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