..., and the changing nature of these connections marks important milestones in Bailey’s academic and adult life. The essay waxes poetic about the substance of Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes” as its meanings exceed its arguments: its very writing serves as a possibility model both in terms of the kind of scholarship Bailey...

...Charles Shepherdson This article explores the relation between the work of Lacan and Derrida, focusing on the use of modal logic in both writers (the categories of necessity, impossibility, contingency, and possibility). The author explores the structure of the aporia in Derrida as a peculiar...

...Lisa Guenther Irigaray's early work seeks to multiply possibilities for women's self-expression by recovering a sexual difference in which male and female are neither the same nor opposites, but irreducibly different modes of embodiment. In her more recent work, however, Irigaray has emphasized...

... the range of possibilities. The present undertaking, about a country in which I live and work, does not mean that other countries (for example, the United States) and other models of democratic development do not deserve their own critique. There is no model that prevails; there are only forms of social...

...) and Apollonian (channelized and formal) musical tendencies and the possibility of their conjunction—for which Richard Wagner’s operas are a model—in The Birth of Tragedy.5 Closely related to noise as violence is noise as death...

... to trafficking in migrant laborers. The article posits a model of salability, based on disposable life and recycled humanity, where entry into the market as either subject or object is the condition of survival in the modern security regime. Against a terrain of precariously asserted and suspended subjectivity...

... work. For instance, Irigaray writes: “Difference must become an everyday concern in every encounter between two individuals. From this point of view, the difference between ma(e)n and woma(e)n appears a possible model for a new era...

... here. Can the Italian experience speak to other women, elsewhere? When Teresa de Lauretis points to the Italian debate as an example, or a possible model, or just as an occasion of reflection for Anglo-American feminists, that gesture recognizes that the debate must be contextualized culturally...

... the dramaturgic model is meant to resolve. What are these aporias? Two are explicitly identified in an earlier text Balibar devoted to Althusser’s concept of ideology. These “enigmas” prevented Althusser from ever completing a coherent thesis on ideology. The first one relates to the possibility of revolution...

... Kip . “ The Microstructure of Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky .” Postmodern Culture 3 . 3 ( 1993 ): 1 – 39 . Churchland Patricia S. Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of The Mind/Brain . Cambridge : MIT P , 1986 . Churchland Patricia S...

... of Althusser’s own practice of theory (in its ambivalent relation to structuralism), it concludes, on the other, that no genuine reworking is possible of the historical horizon we all presuppose, apart from the revival of theory or one of its avatars or successors. As in Althusser’s example, theory’s task...

... borrowing from Pascal a “materialist” model of the creation of belief through the infinite reiteration of ritual gestures of subjection in the practice of prayer, whether physical or mental), this reiteration by its very nature also involves a possibility of disturbance or trouble ( subject trouble...

... models of nondual consciousness and brings Bersani’s later writings into conversation with musical experience. In Bersani’s encounter with Proust and music, musical experience proffers a powerful ego solvent in favor of ontological interpenetration. An attention to music—here, that of Morton Feldman...

... to be something other than a binary. In what follows, I reexamine two Freudian concepts of particu- lar relevance to discussions of transgenderism. First is Freud’s critique of a binary model of sex in his discussion...

... are, indeed must be, equals for the group to remain cohesive and just. However, a direct transposition of the model in Figure 1 to that in Figure 2a would lead to two other possibilities, both of which Freud rejects. In the first...

...Annamarie Jagose It is widely presumed in queer theory today that the political value of the field lies in its antinormative commitments. A historically framed attentiveness to the context in which antinormativity came to define the queer theoretical project, however, raises the possibility...

.... 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...

.... Although fetishism is widely regarded as a conservative practice, a closer examination suggests it may be something quite different. Indeed, I will argue that fetishism offers a compelling model for understanding how feminism can embrace postmodernism and still retain its progressive political specificity...

... of the debt that all citizens have to one another. This debt is the essence of society itself. It exists long before money and markets, and money and markets themselves are simply ways of chopping pieces of it up.” 2 On the causal model and its possible post-“crash” topicality, see Kluge and Vogl...

...-category offeminist concerns. Such a model assumes a fundamental continuity between feminism and lesbianism, a relation of general to particular that overly homogenizes their relations and is incapable of understanding the dissimilarities, the space of separation and difference, that divide them...