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Dead Point of Translation: Otherness, Seduction, and Literary Theory
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 150–168.
Published: 01 May 2021
... translation, that is, for retranslation and retransmission. This effort, however, is always partially unsuccessful since at a certain point it will fail. Laplanche’s understanding of semi-translation is part of the general theory of seduction he develops as a method of psychoanalytical antihermeneutics...
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On the left, the body as seen through Lucia’s point of view in an early sce...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 May 2018
Figures 4 and 5 On the left, the body as seen through Lucia’s point of view in an early scene, and on the right, the cover of a newspaper through which Lucia rewitnesses the body in an image visually rhyming with her earlier perspective. The Reckless Moment , Max Ophuls, 1949.
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On the left, the body as seen through Lucia’s point of view in an early sce...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 May 2018
Figures 4 and 5 On the left, the body as seen through Lucia’s point of view in an early scene, and on the right, the cover of a newspaper through which Lucia rewitnesses the body in an image visually rhyming with her earlier perspective. The Reckless Moment , Max Ophuls, 1949.
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The Burrow of Sound
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Mladen Dolar The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka’s story “The Burrow,” in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound...
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Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to a bureaucratic technocratic logic, and if the academy is at risk, it is because it has fueled false hopes that college degrees guarantee jobs and continues to sink students into debt. Rhody extends Chun’s assertion, pointing to ways in which digital humanities are often touted as a “bright hope” for all...
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Gender Is/in French
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 178–197.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Vivier des noms and as evidenced in Foucault’s introduction to Herculine Barbin . This observation provides a starting point for a theoretical argument about gender, not just in the language but also as a language, and the implications of its “signifying” relationships of power, including in terms...
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The in-Tensions of Extensions: Compagnie Marie Chouinard's bODY Remix gOLDBERG vARIATIONS
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 71–95.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Alanna Thain This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS , dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe...
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Beyond Ontology and Sexual Difference: An Interview with the Italian Feminist Philosopher Adriana Cavarero
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 128–167.
Published: 01 May 2008
... by the materiality of human uniqueness together with its necessary relationality and vulnerability. Sceptical of postmodern, poststructuralist, and deconstructive theories that share a refusal of ontology and an avoidance of metaphysical closure, Cavarero points out that such a refusal tends to think ontology...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
... identification or libidinal cathexes but by foregrounding the experience of the desiring subject. It takes as its point of departure Jacques Lacan's definition of anxiety as “the affect that responds to the desire of the Other.” If love is about the strategies of seduction that sustain the imaginary coherence...
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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
... as to inquire into its utility. The suggestion is that the value of this metaphysics may be undermined by the epistemological difficulty of distinguishing between a suppressed tendency and an absent one. The conclusion identifies this metaphysics of expression as a serious point of divergence between Stone's...
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Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 46–72.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the topic of ``sexual difference.'' Questions about transgender subjectivities afford a point of entry for thinking through the impasses and political purchase of a necessarily contestatory integration of these two domains; however, imagining this integration requires in part an analysis of each discourse's...
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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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Pavlov’s Podcast: The Acousmatic Voice in the Age of Mp3s
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 140–167.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a visual origin or point of reference. The inherent uncanniness of the voice—whether it be the dog’s absent master, man’s distant lover, or woman’s internalized other—is normalized by digital technologies such as MP3 compression. Depending on the conditions of production, distribution, and reception...
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Unequal Metrics: Animals Passing in La Fontaine, Poe, and Chevillard
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., for the animal marks a point at which language or narrative is unequal to itself. The singular, constitutive thresholds or folds of these fables in turn betray something of how language or narrative might work, in what nameless bodies—and even bodiless names—it secretly trades. thangam ravindranathan...
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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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Bells and Spells: Gothic Repetition and Romantic Redundancy
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 53–72.
Published: 01 December 2010
... the language of transcendence usually associated with Romanticism. Readings of Novalis, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Edgar Allan Poe indicate the point of default at which repetition causes the language of unification to falter. The language of love fails to fuse its interlocutors...
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Live Free or Describe: The Reading Effect and the Persistence of Form
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2010
...,” examining its accounts of description and “minimal critical agency” and its skepticism concerning radical freedom and the interpretative heroics of literary analysis from the point of view of Althusser's radically different account of reading as a “guilty” practice, one marked by productivity...
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The Democratic Insect: Productive Swarms
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 36–53.
Published: 01 December 2009
... without centralized control or the provision of a global model.” Such a vision constructs a benign and beneficent swarm that, although it lacks differentiation and specificity, accomplishes democracy without sovereignty. Achille Mbembe points out, nonetheless, that the swarm can have a more sinister...
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“I Insist on the Christian Dimension”: On Forgiveness... and the Outside of the Human
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 224–249.
Published: 01 December 2009
... may be a source of epistemic conundrums. To elaborate this point, the author begins with a reference to a striking key episode at the heart of the South Korean film Miryang [ Secret Sunshine ] (2007), which stages forgiveness in the context of Christian evangelism. The article goes on to argue...
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Theatrical Machines
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 23–42.
Published: 01 November 2015
... offers an alternative point of view. Benjamin’s focus on gesture offers concrete ways of reconceptualizing both identification and disidentification. Read together with his critique of legal violence, one can also see how the gesture displays and arrests the destructive power of the state. Benjamin thus...
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