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...Emily Waller This study places Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe in dialogue with Foucault and Freud, arguing that within the liminality of adolescence, the formation of gendered subjectivity is a condition of “reversible potentiality” in which any given act of the subject represents the radical potential...

... on Modernism and “Feminist Aesthetics of Potentiality” in Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism In her introduction, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek explains her motiva- tion for writing Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism...

... argues that literature–in the modern sense of the term–necessitated literary theory from its very beginnings because of the manner in which it was constituted, namely as a conditioned opening of unconditionality, a fragile, not predetermined potentiality that calls for ever new theorizations...

... to reorient perception, to break with existing modes of seeing so that different forms of existence might be envisioned and initiated. © 2020 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 aesthetics anxiety cinema communication potentiality refusal spectacle...

... that the concept has the potential to serve as a useful intervention into the work of Butler and, among others, Schelling. Although this potential is not directly addressed by Stone, the reading serves as an occasion to reflect on a number of interpretative questions concerning not only the tacit work that occurs...

... piano offered a way to imagine human and machine performances as materially interchangeable and potentially identical. Human and mechanical identity are mediated through the details of fidelity, and this article argues that by exploring the production of a fidelity quite unlike the phonographic fidelity...

... or “context”) or site where a historical event could have erupted and, in this case, did erupt. Ephemera are useful in historical analysis, as Walter Benjamin suggested a century ago, because historical events lie immanent in detritus as potential dialectical images, which the determined historian can...

...Rita Raley Bureaucratization has not fully captured DH and crystallized its institutional identity. The creative and intellectual energies that lie behind it, along with its still amorphous aspects, have a generative potential that should not be foreclosed in the rush to institutionalize...

... their readers a romantic and appealing narrative that emphasizes black women’s power and agency, but this prescription has the potential to delegitimize black women’s lived experience and to reinforce discourses that stigmatize the black community. In this genre of advocacy literature, solving the marriage...

...— aneconomy from Archive Fever , indirection from “Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul,” and undecidability from Glas and The Death Penalty seminars—to show how Derrida suggests a move beyond an “economy of the possible,” thereby showcasing the potentiality of a properly deconstructive...

... eager to fund DH projects, create DH undergraduate and graduate programs, and hire DH faculty. And because there is no sign that these funding streams are going to dry up any time soon, there is great potential for increased tension between the “haves” of the digital humanities community and the “have...

.... This sheds light on Bersani’s familiar notions of inaccurate replication and homo-narcissism within his broader exploration of potential intimacies pleasurably discovered via a sense of universal sameness as opposed to the often murderous fixation on identity and difference. Incongruity institutes...

...Lisa Downing In Baudelaire and Freud (1977), Leo Bersani posits that psychoanalysis offers a way of understanding sexuality as characterized by the mobility of fantasy, rather than by the content of fetishes or sexual identities, and that this mobility offers the “potential for explosive...

...Mikko Tuhkanen Can we appear in the world otherwise than seduced by the promise of its suffering? Persistently returning to this question, Leo Bersani seeks the potential for the human subject’s nonsadistic reinitiation. He does this by visiting the “ontological laboratories” of Baudelaire, Freud...

... for an event to be renarrated, to Butler’s theory. Renarration engenders recursive inconsistencies rife with queer potential. Through renarration, one can compose a scene of redress that revises the violent and otherwise life-denying contours of narratability itself. As an example, the essay turns to Danez...

... through the political and intellectual potential of the improper, queer, and conflictual juxtapositions their artistic practice enacts. © 2020 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 abjection defaced library books Foucault genealogy Joe Orton Kenneth...

... replicated contradiction between feminist emancipatory struggles and gender/race melancholia—evident, for example, in current discussions of vulnerability and resilience, or negative and recuperative readings—as two inseparable dimensions of the transformative potential inherent in feminist aesthetic...

...Robin James Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through...

...Marissa Brostoff This article argues that Caitlyn Jenner’s failed performance as transgender spokeswoman can be best understood through the queer reading practice of camp. Camp’s subversive potential to denaturalize gender through the scene of its failed performance has often been celebrated within...

...Susan Gubar How can we tap the extraordinary potential of “theory” in graduate feminist training, while at the same time circumventing some of its hazardous consequences? Having earned her degrees before the rise of theory, the author witnessed not only the intellectual excitement it generated...