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differences (2019) 30 (1): 100–118.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Samia Vasa A psychoanalytic reading of Catharine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State brings into focus her overwhelmingly queer-negative investment in sexuality. This essay considers select parts of her book to argue that MacKinnon ends up repeating what she claims to end...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2016
... or the antiheteronormative?” (184). Finding myself interpellated here, despite nowhere celebrating “negative freedom” or “the pleasures of no future,” I nonetheless read this question as directed neither toward me nor toward the larger cohort of “antisocial queer theorists,” but rather toward what drives Huffer’s own...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the cut), the film reads division as inherent in the psychic insistence of a “queer” negativity inseparable from the Symbolic’s correlation of reading as such with making sense. That order has no need to teach its subjects what its every institution hammers home: “that interpretation only works by way...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2015
... (and, no doubt, the power of an aside or a footnote) that means that even the most rigorous queer theoretical reading can find itself sponsoring a politics of oppositionality. Indeed, in the very same paragraphs where they argue for the structural rather than oppositional nature of queer/negativity, Edelman...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 132–144.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., this examination of one’s own speaking position is an ethical obligation of theory , because this is what allows theory to remain open to the possibility of hearing and reading the particularity of the other. Thus, in demonstrating that queer theory is more invested in subjectivity than it would like to admit, 4...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the narrative temporality that give form to grief as an impersonal affect in contrast to the sentimentality and interpersonal relationality through which the text is often read. The last part of the article advocates for a turn from the nonrelationality of the antisocial thesis in queer theory to a theory...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 93–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., that entangled cowriting—both here and in the book—brings with it contradictions, contestations, and points of divergence. I want, of course, to think of those points as places where new thinking might emerge. But in the queer negative spirit of a new from which nothing good might emerge, I also want...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
... work, which made it central to queer theory itself. lee.Edelman@tufts.edu © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 betrayal difference homoness insignification intractability negativity queer theory In the course of rather...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 242–261.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in “The Work of Negativity” as a justification for a new psychological paradigm. 17 Making sexuality the essence of a radical theoretical project is at the center of queer theory, and yet, in itself this is not entirely new but can be linked to arguments made earlier by Foucault and Herbert Marcuse...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 175–182.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Maggie might speak to readers torn between competing accounts of queer negativity. julia_jarcho@brown.edu © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 Henry James Leo Bersani Maggie Verver marriage negativity There’s not, it’s true...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 119–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... sleep,” is missing from the original translation. My question? What does my inner “angry, and maybe also kinky” Anglophone Asian lady thinker of queer mixture have to say in response? I think I might have already said something, enough already, so for now, let me just read Audre Lorde, our Lorde...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... the rapidity with which new appellations are created I wondered if my new list would still be up to date by the time the article came out. More importantly, does this change or any change I might make to my list convey to anyone the ways in which I am queer? Even a cursory reading of the first issue...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
... thought, what follows is an attempt to explore the
implications of that turning in Jarman’s Blue, which I read as a significant
model of queer cultural practice that is expressed in and through the sonic.
At its core, Blue is a deeply...
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differences (2001) 12 (2): 98–120.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... Elizabeth Grosz similarly points to an often
overlooked tradition in which desire is productive.18
In this sense, the Sonnets might be considered “queer” in the
early 90s sense of the word. If I have learned to read...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 26–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that queer theory’s conventional commitments to antinormativity need to be reconsidered. As part of that project, this essay traces the elaboration of the norm in Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble , reading it against what is often taken as its inspiration, Michel Foucault’s understanding of normalization...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 1991
... overtones of the dominant; frightening to look at, desiring, as it plays its own organ, producing its own music. 4 Tracking the Vampire This un-natural sense of the queer was, of course, first constituted as a negative category by dominant social practices, which homosexuals later embraced as a form...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 48–73.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and politics now institutionalized in queer studies under the rubric of antinormativity. By focusing on Sedgwick’s appetite for incoherence, the double bind, and nondialectical understandings of contradiction, this essay studies the elegant and cogent model of reading found in Sedgwick’s work in order to value...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Amber Jamilla Musser Written in 1987 in response to the aids emergency unfolding in the United States, Leo Bersani’s “Is the Rectum a Grave?” is often described as an early entry into the strain of queer theory that offers queerness as tarrying in abjection, failure, and antisociality. This essay...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., his restless returns to a site of non-knowledge where obsession, perhaps even madness, becomes the template for human consciousness,” see his “Against” 164–65. Also pertinent here is Freeman’s queer reading of Hamlet in the context of her notions (mentioned above) of temporal drag...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 161–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Jacques Khalip A response to Lee Edelman's essay “I'm Not There: The Absence of Theory,” this article explores the conceptual life of difference in queer theory and extends Edelman's formulations in the direction of post–de Manian aesthetics and theories of (un)becoming and identity shattering...
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