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...Briankle G. Chang As an extension of the eye, the camera writes the light according to its own inhuman, mechanical terms. The photographic ability to describe the world objectively not only renders indistinguishable the perceptible and the imperceptible but also makes visible the hidden commerce...

...Ariella Azoulay More than once Arendt denied being a public figure and added that she did not entertain any “ambition to become one.” This poses a challenge to any filmmaker seeking to portray her character, as Margarethe von Trotta found when she contradicted Arendt’s self-perception to inquire...

..., it is, more than any other technical register, directly linked to the contemporary cultural politics of perception and reception. Although this article focuses on sound technologies, a full cultural critique of signal processing would consider its central role in every sense register...

...Stephanie Clare Contemporary scholarship on emotion and feeling tends to fold bodily sensations such as feeling cold into emotions, like fear. In contrast, this essay slows down to consider the contours of cold itself, showing how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception offers a method...

... and the contingency of “surprise.” The author argues that the surface method of “critical description,” which seeks to “indicate what a text says about itself” and to describe what it makes “evident, perceptible, apprehensible,” fails when Marcus and Best describe Althusser's text but overlook the fact that his...

... of allegory from the male perspective of Charles Baudelaire, this essay initiates the possibility of a feminine melancholy and a feminine allegory. This melancholic feminine allegory reveals a new conception of time and a new focus on aural perception, the eternal return, and the resounding cry of trauma...

...,” or the structural innovations of thinking, reading, and perception explored throughout his critical writings. The introduction also emphasizes Bersani’s ongoing attention to relationality through the aesthetic and how it contributed to his decades-long rethinking of sexuality, sociality, politics, and art. While...

... of aesthetic perceptions of sameness replaces the immobilizing forces of desirous knowing and difference. Highlighted is the way in which sameness is not based on a single predicate of commonality, but instead obtains in similar forms of movement that inaugurate correspondences with others and the world...

... to reorient perception, to break with existing modes of seeing so that different forms of existence might be envisioned and initiated. © 2020 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 aesthetics anxiety cinema communication potentiality refusal spectacle...

...Selamawit D. Terrefe Taking as its starting point that legibility is made perceptible by an implied outside of illegibility, this essay asks if the nature of inquiry—about questions of blackness and sexuality—is that of a deferred knowing or if it is knowable at all. Does the very distinction...

.... Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception . Trans. Colin Smith. London: Routledge, 1962 . Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, and Claude Lefort. The Visible and the Invisible: Followed by Working Notes . Evanston: Northwestern up, 1968 . Salamon, Gayle. “The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain...

... . Deleuze, Gilles, and Claire Parnet. Dialogues II . Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. London:Continuum, 2002 . Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka:Toward a Minor Literature . Trans. Dana Polan. Minneapolis:u of Minnesota p, 1986 . ____. “Percept, Affect, and Concept.” What...

... between friends—only in more perceptible, more tangible form.” And yet, Lukács is also writing about death. The subject of Beer-Hofmann’s story is an effect brought about by the friend’s departure—“what is left to the survivor...

... and other aberrations in human vision could not be contrasted to a "true" or "real" perception - instead, they begin to "constitute an irreducible component of human vision" (97). From this point of view, photography and the cinema were not the modern inheritors of the logic of the camera obscura 2 (which...

... that emerged under the conditions of nineteenth-century monopoly capitalism. In Convolute K, Benjamin describes the historical discovery of primal history in Kantian terms as a “Copernican revolution in historical perception.” “The Copernican revolution in historical perception is as follows: Formerly...

... [ . . . ]. 16 The time of poetry is the time of the creative act, the time of the making and changing of the poet’s relationship with the world. It’s the time of sensation, of the perception of reality. ( Vitale 80–81 ) This retrospective glance, both an invective aimed at Jakobson’s project...

...” locates it within the realm of concrete, external sense perception and ties it to a material reality that can be apprehended by way of the senses of sight, hearing, or touch. Yet whenever writing is understood as a cultural tech...

... significantly, however, resonance is also the concept at the heart of an influential theory of hearing accord- ing to which the perception of pitch ensues from certain structures deep inside the cochlea vibrating in phase...

... understanding of sexual experience and its cultural formation. In this general account~ he argues that perceptual experience can mislead~ unless perceptions are scrutinized and criticized by mind (IV.735 ff.~ 818-22). ()ne "vay in which such deformation can occur is through the mutual influence of desire...

... of his sister Hanna, he disavows what he sees when the baby girl's diaper is removed. He exclaims to his mother "but she's got no teeth - a displacement, Freud suggests, from his perception of her castration (69). He cannot readily admit to himself that she has no penis (this would imperil the security...