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Somatic Ontology: Comments on Alison Stone's Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference
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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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Recastings: On Alison Stone's Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 139–149.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference
In the essay “Corporeal Habits,” Vicki Kirby once offered
a vivid image from a debate concerning Irigarayan corporeality. She
describes an interlocutor whose view is that Irigaray does not appeal...
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The Worst Neighborhoods of the Real: Philosophy – Telephone – Contamination
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 February 1989
... . Leibowitch Jacques . A Strange Virus of Unknown Origin . Trans. Howard Richard . New York : Ballantine , 1985 . Nancy Jean-Luc . L'oubli de la philosophie . Paris : Galilée , 1986 . Nietzsche Friedrich . The Basic Works of Nietzsche . Trans. Kaufmann Walter . New...
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Images for Housework: On the Time of Domestic Labor in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of the Cinema
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 67–92.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Cesare Casarino This essay argues that the time of domestic labor played a pivotal role in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of the cinema and, in particular, in his theorization of the cinema as medium of expression (rather than as medium of representation only) and as expression of time. This argument...
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Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Ed Cohen In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of “living philosophy.” The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche...
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Unthought Nature: Reply to Penelope Deutscher and Mary Beth Mader
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to the tradition of the philosophy of nature and interpreting Butler as offering, in spite of her focus on the genealogy of claims about sex, also a theory of sex itself, a theory of sex as an effect entirely of gender. This approach to reading differs from Irigaray's own reading method of expanding...
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Event, Abyss, Excess: The Event of Women in Chinese Commercial Advertisement, 1910s-1930s
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 51–92.
Published: 01 September 2013
... extricate. Reading Badiou’s philosophy creatively, the essay makes the case that women or woman is an emergent, historical, modern, and universal truth; direct critique of Badiou also drives home the point that philosophy (or “theory”) is vulnerable to history and that historically, factually, actually...
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Have I Been Destroyed? Answering to Authority and the Politics of the Father
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 48–62.
Published: 01 May 2010
... philosophy when it did nothing to prevent the state's murder of Socrates. Philosophy was too puny to fight the power. Authority and its cognates gave Plato the arsenal he needed to upgrade the philosophical stance and give it an antiballistic shield. Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Kojève show concern over...
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On Solicitude
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differences (2025) 36 (1): 133–167.
Published: 01 May 2025
...David Marriott This essay is a study of the (black) infans in both psychoanalysis and philosophy, most notably, in Sigmund Freud’s Entwurf (1895) and Jean-François Lyotard’s essay “Emma” in Misère de la philosophie . The essay follows three main lines of argument : 1) Why does the infans seem...
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“Where' Your People From, Girl?”: Belonging to Race, Gender, and Place Beneath Clouds
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., but in the impact of any political denial of the uniqueness and openness of belonging and in the disabling of the capacity for community that accompanies this denial. These ideas are explored with reference to the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy and contemporary theorists of race and gender including Alcoff...
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“The Archaeology of Sound”: Derek Jarman's Blue and Queer Audiovisuality in the Time of aids
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in turn corresponds to a technical nonproductivity inscribing certain constructions of the aural spectacle in philosophies and theories of film sound. Blue 's model of aural spectacularization is then linked to Michel Foucault's remarks on speakability/unspeakability, voice, and listening in The History...
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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
... on neuroscience and philosophy to reinterpret such interpersonal feelings as occasions when individuals who have not had surgery literally feel on behalf of those who have, in particular where surgery has caused desensitizing nerve damage. This phenomenon can be understood neuroscientifically as sensations...
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The Burrow of Sound
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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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Irigaray’s Figures of Home and the Malformation of Male Subjectivity
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 33–57.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Robert Hughes This essay illuminates the recent philosophy of Luce Irigaray by following how she develops her key trope of home . Thus, it elaborates her critique of a certain closed “homely” formation of man’s subjectivity and advances her thesis that woman might function as the salutary advent...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... Following Althusser, it offers a model for reading “generously” that is specific to a world in which the dominant forms of literary and cultural engagement have emerged alongside the novel as a form. The article revisits Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” as well as Alain Badiou's...
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Imitating the Affects of Beasts: Interest and Inhumanity in Spinoza
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 54–72.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Warren Montag Is Spinoza a theoretician of self-interest? Historians of philosophy have arrived at diametrically opposed answers to this question. His introduction of the term conatus , meaning endeavor or striving, in part 3 of the Ethics , together with his assertion that when human beings most...
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“Terrorists Are Human Beings”: Mapping the u.s. Army's “Human Terrain Systems” Program
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
Published: 01 December 2009
... international law to an updated endorsement of Kant's quest for perpetual cosmopolitan peace. With the problem of history and the relationship between temporality and the “cultural” disciplines such as philosophy in mind, the author updates Habermas's updating of Kant in a context of perpetual war that neither...
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Lipwork
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 93–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Lynne Huffer This essay reflects on the arguments developed in Lynne Huffer’s recent book Are the Lips a Grave? It focuses specifically on the politics of dissensus, nondialectical thinking, the disciplining of knowledge, and institutional gatekeeping that have come to define philosophy, women’s...
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What Is the Institutional Form for Thinking?
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Simon Critchley This article considers the state of the humanities, particularly in disciplines like philosophy, in light of the institutional structure of the university. Arguing that the bureaucratization of the contemporary university is thwarting learning and thinking, the author suggests...
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What's the Difference? Religion and the Question of Theory
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 124–136.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Elizabeth A. Castelli Religion has long been the object of theorization, and the history of this theorization is grounded in a history of making sense of difference. After a brief survey of this history, this essay considers the religious turn in contemporary philosophy, the increasing attention...
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