...” in the physics—the possible rupture of time and space—of Hammonds’s work and the work of the late Randall Kenan in his short experimental piece “Chinquapin: Elementary Particles.” [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 Black...

...Astrid Schrader Physics has a long history of employing demons as thought experiments in order to probe the limits of human knowledge. Maxwell’s demon is such a thought experiment: a molecule-sorting demon invented in 1878 by James Clerk Maxwell in order to con/test the universal validity...

..., physics, and Black feminist studies. By analyzing origin stories that surround the moniker black hole in physics, the essay shows how imperial violence and notions of Black gender and sexual alterity suffused the term from its inception in the world of physics—a history that Black feminist theorists call...

...Karen Barad This essay explores the act of touching as it takes place in physical matter, in theorizing, and in the productive spaces where the two are indistinguishable. First, the author considers how feminist theory goes about touching science and unpacks touch as an act that reveals the self...

... and addresses space-time as a self-reading strategy and an exemplar for how scientific analogies can illuminate analyses in Black thought. It problematizes the uptake of physical ideas without taking care to understand those physical concepts in conversation with Black scientists. The author shows how Black...

...Erin A. Spampinato This essay identifies what the author terms “adjudicative reading,” a tendency in literary criticism to read novels depicting sexual violence as if in a court of law. Adjudicative reading tracks characters’ motivations and the physical outcomes of their actions as if novels can...

... illustrate the deep psychological and physical suffering that narrators experienced as they navigated the labyrinth of socially sanctioned practices in their communities. They also communicate lessons about deep structures of power and the blurred boundaries of religion and ritual. The narratives reveal...

... physical, a purely immanent energy with no sensual manifestation. The first and third terms are thus “the limits between which the second oscillates in its precarious splendor and perfection,” where “the fantasy finds what it needs” (52–53). If that splendor is marked as “precarious,” however...

... 157 shares a physical connection with the object it represents; and a symbol is associated with meaning through convention or habit. On a number of occasions, Peirce offered similar descriptions. Here is one...

... of material existence; the intensification ofinterest in the categories of gender and sexuality, brought on in part by the politics of the feminist and gay movements; and the emergence of certain bodily experiences (AIDS and anorexia nervosa are two potent examples) in which the physical, the cultural...

... and physical anthropologists in the decades that followed World War II (see Dobzhansky, “Comment”; Livingstone; and Reardon). These continuing debates have largely escaped sustained his- torical and social scientifi c analysis...

... and nonviolence, or violence and freedom.2 It denoted a plurality or system of practices, ranging from obvious physical struggles and battles (the war in Vietnam, the white South's resistance to desegregation, the rise in urban crime, 26 UPutting Your Body on the Line" campus protests, the epidemic of political...

... Buchgesellschaft , 1964 . Boltzmann Ludwig . “ Ueber die Entwicklung der Methoden der theoretischen Physik in neuerer Zeit .” Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärtzte 71 ( 1899 ): 99 – 122 . Cahan David . “ The Institutional Revolution in German Physics, 1865–1914...

... . “ Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices .” The Science Studies Reader. Ed. Biagioli Mario . New York : Routledge , 1998 . 1 – 11 . Barad Karen . “ A Feminist Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics .” Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender...

.... Malden: Blackwell, 1998 . ———. “Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps.” American Literature 68.3 (Sep. 1996 ): 555 –86. Warren, Kenneth W. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism . Chicago: U...

... 151 confusion over where tongues literally are: in whose mouths, in relation to whose bodies. Ferenczi’s final thoughts on psychic and physical invasion have been read as the ghost story...

... and a physiological cause." While Mitchell understood the phenomenon d iff ere nee s: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 7.3 (1995) 110 Reconstructions in terms of the amputee's inability to adjust psychically and physically to the loss, Amar believed firmly that this "haunting" could be made to disappear through...

... of the Acoustical Society of America 1.1 ( 1929 ): 138 – 46 . Holliday Kent A. Reproducing Pianos Past and Present . Lewiston : Edwin Mellen , 1989 . Jackson Myles W. “ Physics, Machines, and Musical Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century Germany .” History of Science 42 ( 2004 ): 371...

..., however, of attending moving picture shows, lies in the fact that such undue excitation of nerves and eyes tend to physical and mental injury. We adults sit in the darkened show place with tense brows and fixed eyes, while the film sputters its hurried course before our bewildered and strained vision...

... of medium as unworked physical support, Rosalind Krauss has defined a medium as “a set of conventions derived from (but not identical with) the material conditions of a given technical support, conventions out of which to develop...