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Politics and Voice(s): An Empowerment/Knowledge Regime
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 1991
... . Young Iris Marion . “ Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship .” Ethics 99 ( 1989 ): 250 - 74 . Politics and Voice(s): An Empowerment/Knowledge Regime NANCY S. LOVE The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possiblejor a single gaze to see...
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Of Bugs and Masks: Regimes within Regimes
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Miglena Nikolchina This essay examines the entanglement of Galin Tihanov’s three regimes of relevance of literature—literature as art, literature as high-minded social engagement, and literature as popular entertainment—in the encounter between a literary theoretician (Tzvetan Todorov...
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Regimes of Relevance: On Their Use for Literary Theory
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Bogdana Paskaleva At the core of this essay is an exploration of the notion of regime of relevance introduced by Galin Tihanov in his monograph The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019). On the one hand, the author traces the ramifications of Tihanov’s coinage and demonstrates possible arenas...
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Critique of Silence
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 211–234.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Eugenie Brinkema This article posits an absolute difference between the regime of silence and the regime of near inaudibility. The regime of silence pivots equally on avowals of the possibility of sound’s absence and on negated versions, such as John Cage’s declaration, “There is no such thing...
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Literary Theory as Radical Historicism?
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of language, the author connects Tihanov’s notion of “regimes of relevance” with the concept of “regime” developed by Jacques Rancière. The intersection of these two theorizations of “regime” pinpoint the paradox at the heart of literary theory: the attempt to pose the question of artistic autonomy...
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Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Pontine Marshes
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 94–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
... become an argument for the regime’s “revolutionary” aspects. This article argues that “land reclamation” was a fundamental policy and ideology of Italian fascism. It claims that reclamation furnishes the literal and figurative grounds of consent to the regime: this is to say, reclamation as policy...
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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
...Maria Kalinova This essay focuses on the problem of translation, which Galin Tihanov regards as the afterlife of literary theory in his book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). According to Tihanov, it is exactly through translation...
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Historicizing Gender: A Study of Chinese Women’s Liberation from 1949 to 1966
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 93–108.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and is usually considered the most important period for the establishment of the socialist regime and political system. The essay builds on the premise that since the 1980s, gendered critiques of the Seventeen-Year Period, by applying imported gender theory, have tended to treat...
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Twittering Machines: Antinoise and Other Tricks of the Ear
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 276–299.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of sonic regimes, articulated across bodies and machines in variously historically freighted micro-locations, asking how a particular order of sound might order or enclose spaces. Under consideration are antinoise campaigners on trains, Mosquito sonic management devices, and a glossolaliac artwork (smSage...
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Whither Abolition?
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 27–57.
Published: 01 September 2023
... abolitionists distorted the political demands of the enslaved to consolidate liberal humanism, so, too, do contemporary deployments of abolition similarly sediment enslavement as a regime of power. Within this context, Mrs. Pringle positions Prince’s scars as ciphers for the veracity of the narrative, and so...
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Policing (as) the Paradigmatic Scene of Rape
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 25–52.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the bedroom: rape was a problem not of exceptional perversion, but of ordinary heterosexuality. The works surveyed in this essay center the scene of state detention, showing how regimes of policing in a racial capitalist state always frame and prototype sexual violence. The author pursues this argument...
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Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 64–89.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ayse Parla This article explores the potentials for and pitfalls of the virtually nonexistent terrain of rights for undocumented migrants in Turkey to engage the broader question of whether the language of rights can serve emancipatory ends for subordinated groups. As in other capitalist regimes...
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Learning Nothing: Bad Education
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Lee Edelman Taking queerness as one of the figural names for ontological exclusion (that is, for whatever a particular regime of social being forecloses), this essay focuses on how such a queerness effects an impossible pedagogy that aspires to teach us nothing. Rather than a site of emptiness...
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The Human Recycled: Insecurity in the Transnational Moment
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
... 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...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 150 – 68 . Martínez Matías Scheffel Michael , eds. Klassiker der modernen Literaturtheorie: Von Sigmund Freud bis Judith Butler . Munich : Taschenbuch , 2010 . Nikolchina Miglena . “ Of Bugs and Masks: Regimes within Regimes .” Nikolchina 97 – 125 . Nikolchina...
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The Den of Theoretical Monsters
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of intellectual formations delineates its own project for a radical historicity–by analyzing the different regimes of relevance of literature–both the traces of modern literary theory and the methodological awareness of the traps theory sets before such an enterprise. When I insist that literary theory...
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The Return to/of Theory
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... . Hartog François . Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time . Trans. Brown Saskia . New York : Columbia UP , 2015 . Heller-Roazen Daniel . “ Tradition’s Destruction: On the Library of Alexandria .” October 100 ( 2002 ): 133 – 53 . Herman Luc...
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Narrative and Strategy in Sovereign Debt
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 169–187.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of regime change generally shed light on the centrality of our narratives of sovereignty for expectations around sovereign debt. This is particularly the case if the new regime aims to radically alter the polity’s political and economic structures as part of an explicit rejection of its predecessor. Should...
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The Seminar: Mode d'emploi Impure Spaces in the Light of Late Totalitarianism
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 96–127.
Published: 01 May 2002
.../public division in the
light of a phenomenon that emerged as a major feature of the last decade
of the communist regime in Bulgaria and that came to be designated as
“the seminar.”
The seminar? In Bulgaria? Over ten...
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Exilic Inscriptions: Migration and the Resistance to (World) Theory
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 126–149.
Published: 01 May 2021
... . Nikolchina Miglena . “ Of Bugs and Masks: Regimes within Regimes .” Nikolchina 97 – 125 . Nikolchina Miglena , ed. The Undead of Literary Theory . Spec. issue of differences 32 . 1 ( 2021 ). Paskaleva Bogdana . “ Regimes of Relevance: On Their Use for Literary Theory...
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