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The Persons and Things School: Parrots, Peasants, and Pariahs in “Un Coeur simple” and La Chaumière indienne
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 107–125.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime . Oxford: Oxford up, 1996 . Pontes, Eunice. “The Distinction between Persons and Things in Portuguese Pronouns.” Cadernos de linguistica y teoria da literatura 2.3 ( Dec . 1980 ): 97 -104. Pottage, Alain, et al. Law...
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My Approach to Biography: Rosa Luxemburg, Hildegard von Bingen, Hannah Arendt
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 70–85.
Published: 01 September 2015
...). The three films share the challenge of blending public and personal lives, intellectual and emotional personae. The making of Rosa Luxemburg involved problematic research in the archives of the German Democratic Republic. The twelfth-century context of Hildegard’s life proposed other challenges, especially...
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Toward an Analysis of the Corporate Ego: The Case of Richard Hakluyt
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 103–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Henry S. Turner This essay examines the problem of the corporation as an “artificial person” and as a form of political organization in the early modern period, using Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1598–1600) to explore models of collective, corporate narration and competing images...
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Arendt on the Couch
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 93–105.
Published: 01 September 2015
... controversial judgments, Arendt re-created for herself the conditions of her own precarity, summoning time and again her personal formative trauma as a refugee only to survive it each time. Arendt’s uncharacteristically two-dimensional account of Eichmann’s personality in Eichmann in Jerusalem is read along...
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The Injured World: Intersex and the Phenomenology of Feeling
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 20–41.
Published: 01 September 2012
... analyzes the role of feelings in such debates. It argues against accounts of “lived experience” that cast feelings as purely personal, to focus instead on interpersonal feelings between individuals with and without intersex anatomies and with and without histories of genital surgery. The article draws...
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Against Nature, against Consent: A Sexual Politics of Debility
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 55–103.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Justice Politics,” considers how sex workers (or persons convicted of soliciting sex), sex offenders, and other queers might find points of political solidarity irreducible to sexual identities subsumed under the consenting adult. Fairness and debility, the author submits, could hold out more promising...
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Something Old, Something New: Black Women, Interracial Dating, and the Black Marriage Crisis
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... women to embrace their power and desirability in American society. At the same time, the literature reveals a nostalgic desire for a world where men were providers, women could afford to be the weaker sex, and traditional marriage could be a path to both personal and group advancement. Advocates offer...
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The Age of Paranoia: Teresa Brennan’s Posthumous Insights for the Present
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 93–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Brennan’s archival papers, this article contextualizes Brennan’s inquiry with her theoretical influences in Freud, Klein, and Lacan. The essay concludes by reflecting on Brennan’s insights for the present “post-truth” political impasse, a discourse of personal feeling for which her theory provides...
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The Brave Side of Digital Humanities
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and radical community of scholarship. By focusing on the #AntiJemimas collection of blogs, this inquiry traces a particular mode of critical digital inquiry that is at once political, personal, and performative and challenges the question of “what counts?” in the field formation of the digital humanities...
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“Black (W)holes” and the Propagation of New Possibilities
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 184–192.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Moya Bailey The starting point of this essay is the author’s acknowledgment that Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” has been a throughline for her scholarly and personal development. That relationship to Hammonds’s text and its author shifts...
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Rossellini beyond Repair
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 1–42.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Rossellini’s film into conversation with ongoing debates about “reparative reading” and its alternatives. Noting that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick encounters, or rather avoids, a “deinstitutionalized person on the street” in “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” this essay highlights the film’s very different...
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“When your cords were tense”: Giving up on, the Giving Ground
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 96–116.
Published: 01 December 2024
... writing, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , and the HBO series White Lotus , respectively), this Emersonian account of Giving an Account of Oneself reflects, for the sake of thinking more closely about and within both the fiction of personal expression and the impersonal medium in which it is embedded...
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Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 150–177.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Smith’s essay, “How HIV Ruined My Sex Life. Then I Met My Match” (2021), published at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith renarrates a scene of redress that transformed their affective and social relations to sex as a Black, queer, nonbinary person with HIV. Through self-narration, Smith revises...
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On Touching—the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 206–223.
Published: 01 December 2012
... on the personal level but on the particle level as well, and she responds to this deconstruction of matter with an ethics of response-ability. I would like to thank Sophia Roosth, Astrid Schrader, and Elizabeth Weed for inviting a creative and provocative response to these essays. I am grateful to Lina Dib...
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Transgression: Normativity’s Self-Inversion
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... gets under our skin. How does an outside (social norms, grids of intelligibility, and behavioral compliance) also articulate the inside (personal belief and conscience, and even biological symptomatologies)? Given this intricate involvement between the inside and the outside, an involvement whose...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Tracy McNulty The question at the core of this essay is whether the subjective stance of one person can initiate broad change or inspire collective action by means other than the group psychology, not by appealing to a particular set of values or ideals or by cementing the group through...
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Sex, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 68–94.
Published: 01 April 1997
... . Savage, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield , 1991 . Strathern Marilyn . “ One Man and Many Men .” Godelier and Strathern 197 – 214 . Tanguy Father . The Bemba of Zambia . Ms. Ilondola , Zambia . 1954 . Wagner Roy . “ The Fractal Person .” Godelier...
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Sex, Law, and Other Reasonable Endeavors
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 81–96.
Published: 01 December 2007
... no legitimate state interest. In an overture to the
decision of the Court, Justice Kennedy extolled the American tradition of
liberty—“in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions”—as the context
of personal dignity. Sexual practice or “intimate...
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Gender and Sexual Differences in 1980s China: Introducing Li Xiaojiang
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 8–21.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... lingzhen wang is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, gender studies, film studies, and transnational feminist theory. She is the author of Personal Matters: Women’s...
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"But She’s a Thinker"
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to illuminate the essential core of a person’s being (as Arendt might have phrased it)—and we worked through the many significant moments in her full and rich life. In the 1920s, there was her famous youthful affair and prolonged friendship with Martin Heidegger. Since there was a kind of love story...
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