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differences (2010) 21 (2): 142–172.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Amy Tang There is perhaps no single formal practice more closely associated with contemporary culture than the repetition of images, styles, and forms from the past, and nowhere have these practices been more contentiously debated than in the cultural production of racial subjects. This essay...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 165–174.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in mobilizing certain “outmoded” feminist theoretical questions for the power of the productive disturbances they can create in the interpretation of sources—in a field that takes the past as its subject but has come, increasingly, to denigrate the past of its own conceptual possibilities in its present-day...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 2023
... narcissism. By this Bersani asks us to move past the psychic dynamics of ego formation and their implicit violence to make way for a mode of relationality in which subjects coexist absent of any demands on one another. This approach draws from Bersani’s own eviscerating critique of the heteronormative...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 150–174.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... This article explores whether monument attacks are an acting out of value conflicts. The distinction between “heroic” and “wounded” modes of remembering the past helps to understand attackers’ motivations. The author compares three types of attacks: 1) on monuments that represent racism, slavery, and white...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2018
... proposes to use the black past as a case study and a cautionary tale from which the gay present might learn lessons about the ways and means of marriage rights in America, Wedlocked , in a second pedagogical reversal, looks to the success of the contemporary marriage equality campaign in elevating...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the legal and illegal, and the woman guerilla, the limit between the past and future. The truths of these figures reveal the impossibilities of living under colonial, patriarchal, and repressive conditions and unleash a force that challenges the boundaries instituted on speech, law, and politics by liberal...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 20–44.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the globalizing present (France during the period from 1945 to 1973 known as the Trente glorieuses and China during the period following 1989 known as the Post–New Era) and the traumatic past (the German Occupation of France and the Tiananmen Square incident in China). Whereas Walter Benjamin draws his theory...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 42–73.
Published: 01 December 2012
...; and that of Mrs. B, a woman who suffers from amnesia and wears a camera in the hope of leading a normal life in which she can share the past with loved ones. The author discusses how new recording technologies are both a symptom of, and a cure for, anxieties about time, arguing that prototypical recording...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...” argues that historicizing “the way they were”—that is, examining the manner in which the earliest African Americans lived and loved—is less a matter of how captive communities experienced intimacy than of who gets to interpret and codify their experience, of who gets to say how the past means...
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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 (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and understanding. Rather, the idea of community developed in this article is of an open sense of belonging together to race, gender, and place, a sensibility of belonging that expresses one's indeterminate difference, that opens one toward a future and a past, that must be continually renewed through relations...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 87–101.
Published: 01 May 2009
...) and the subsequent promise of transformative change have led to a series of critical impasses in liberal criticism. This essay contends that the failures of psychoanalysis (failures to produce stable meaning, to procure cure, to exorcize the past, to segregate health from illness, and so forth) may be precisely all...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Kari Weil Theory has gone to the birds . . . and to apes, dogs, and horses. The recent explosion of writing and teaching on animals has recharged those questions of identity and difference, of power and its effects that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Even trauma...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2012
... begins and ends by reflecting on the stakes involved, both today and in the past. This essay is dedicated to the memory of Eugene Vance, eminent scholar and extraordinary friend, who traversed many worlds. geraldine heng is Perceval Professor and Associate Professor of English...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 101–126.
Published: 01 December 2013
...: the trope of cultural capital turns out to serve best not as a tool for the critical analysis of past cultural production but rather as the ideological foundation for a new sense of the aesthetic in the Internet era. I would like to thank Ellen Rooney for her thoughtful comments on this work...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Mikko Tuhkanen “Homomonadology” outlines the emergence and elaboration of Leo Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics over the past half a century, focusing particularly on his interest in the shared references to Leibnizian metaphysics in twentieth-century philosophical and literary texts. The essay...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 September 2020
... argues for a retooling of psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic for archival work on queer pasts by sidestepping the familiar terrain of melancholic loss in favor of the ambivalent, defiant function of anal sexuality and its peculiar encryption strategy. Angus Mitchell has been labeled “the doyen...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of “repetition” ( Wiederholung ), a term that refers to the retroactive movement of historicality in which “heritage” or the historical past is retrieved in a moment of authentic decision made in the present. For Heidegger, this repetition of the past in the present is part of the process in which time itself...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 9–34.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that history is written by the victors and to their advantage and that historical writing, consequently, is an ideological weapon with which to double the oppression of already vanquished groups by depriving them of their historical pasts...
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differences (2005) 16 (2): 116–137.
Published: 01 September 2005
... . ____. The Muses . Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Stanford: Stanford up, 1996 . Proust, Marcel. The Remembrance of Things Past . Vol. 1 . Trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff. New York: Random, 1934 . Sallis, John. Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental . Bloomington: Indiana up, 2000...