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differences (1991) 3 (1): iii–vi.
Published: 01 April 1991
...Kathy E. Ferguson; Kirstie M. McClure Politics/Power/Culture: PostlDodernity and FelDinist Political Theory prelitninary Rminist political theory - a curious phrase, perhaps for some even striking, if only in its apparent redundancy. Is not feminist theory sufficient? Is it not necessarily...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines the relevance of the concept of biopower and its four seminal figures (the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the masturbating child, and the perverse adult) to our understanding of current formations of late liberal power. Through the example...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 32–61.
Published: 01 May 2012
... appropriation of the octopus following the novel’s publication. The French word for octopus came to denote a sexually assertive and economically ambitious woman who traded upon her erotic charms. The emergence of this social type derived its aesthetic power from channeling contemporary anxieties tied to gender...
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differences (1995) 7 (1): 165–187.
Published: 01 April 1995
... Stathis . “ Nationalism and Oneirocriticism: Of Modern Hellenes in Europe .” Diaspora 2 . 1 ( 1992 ): 43 – 72 . Hartsock Nancy . “ Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women? ” Feminism/Postmodernism . Ed. Nicholson Linda J. . New York : Routledge , 1990 . 157 – 75...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2019
...—redistribution of economic and material resources, epistemological change, and an overt politicization of knowledge—with representation, thereby incorporating difference into the existing system of power. Difference itself became commodifiable: “Whereas modes of power once disciplined difference...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Linda Singer Bodies - Pleasures - Powers LINDA SINGER AthOUgh the 1960s are the decade usually credited with making sex a political issue and the subject of popular and scholarly discourse, the 1980s have been a time when sexual political issues have become both targets of major social agenda...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... causal origin cannot be determined, should the conscious strategies of antinormativity be understood as interventions that hail from outside these norms or as expressions of power’s internal and perverse machinations? If norms are considered the genetics of power that inform all of social life (without...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 109–141.
Published: 01 September 2010
... was a key component of Romantic reimaginings of language as a productive force. While the native informant guarantees the referential truth of colonial discourse, this essay details the simultaneous emergence of a figure termed the ``native performant,'' who dramatizes the performative power of Western...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
... 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...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 48–62.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Avital Ronell Exploring the cobelonging of the philosophical and the political, this essay reflects on the question of authority. Plato more or less invented authority when he sought to establish a reliable force that would intercede between power and persuasion. Rhetorical persuasion had failed...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... cultural violence; the elements of popular fantasy that animate it; the forms of modern state and transnational power the category occludes; and the ahistorical and divisive civilizational thinking it encourages. Drawing both on ethnography from one Egyptian Bedouin community in which honor is a key moral...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 146–171.
Published: 01 May 2011
... was proximate to the site to which the information referred. This article argues that if “archive” is the name we give to the power to make and command what took place here or there, in this or that place, and thus what has an authoritative place in the contemporary organization of social life, the postcolonial...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... women to embrace their power and desirability in American society. At the same time, the literature reveals a nostalgic desire for a world where men were providers, women could afford to be the weaker sex, and traditional marriage could be a path to both personal and group advancement. Advocates offer...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., always already shaped by (gendered, racialized, classed, sexual) power. This fiction of mutuality emphasizes the importance of the individual rather than structures of power, strengthening the logic of “he said, she said” in the aftermath of violence and once again leaving redress for harm largely out...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 179–193.
Published: 01 December 2009
... intended as a critique of teleology. The question of individuation is thus referred to its ontological roots in the conflict between Aristotelian metaphysics (priority of act over power [ potentia ] and of final cause over efficient and material causes) and Spinozist metaphysics (power [ potentia...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to establish forms of equivalence between the power of the mistress and that of the master. Because this normalization of white women’s power nonetheless relies on standards of historiographical interpretation—the predominance of political economy, the imperatives of affect and agency—it does not sufficiently...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 May 2023
... act, and the way that fantasy images travel in time and create new temporalities. This essay links Bersani’s 1977 reading of Baudelaire’s poem “Hair” with his later work by showing that when the sexual power of fantasy is denied, it often returns in the form of a fantasy of sexual power. At the end...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 244–251.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Michael Lucey In Thoughts and Things , Bersani juxtaposes Jean Genet’s novel, Our Lady of the Flowers with some of Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking about how naming works. Bersani finds in Genet’s novel a moment of unnamability that is, for him, a challenge to the legitimating naming power of the state...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 May 2023
... 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...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
Published: 01 May 2011
... versus modernity renders certain important facts illegible, underemphasizing or ignoring the structures of power within which violence against women occurs. This simple story positions culture and feminism as opponents in a zero-sum game and presumes that women will be emancipated when they have overcome...
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