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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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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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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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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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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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differences (2021) 32 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2021
... point of departure Galin Tihanov’s recent book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond . It includes essays that evolved out of a series of discussions about the book by an informal group–the Sofia Literary Theory Seminar–as well as Galin Tihanov’s response...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... refers to David Damrosch’s 1995 “Auerbach in Exile,” considered a point of departure for the third regime of relevance, that is, as marking the precise moment in which the neoliberal discourse of world literature started gaining power. This fact could explain the overexposure of the topic “Auerbach...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 126–149.
Published: 01 May 2021
... limited, for it is itself the product of a time-limited regime of relevance that bestows on literature (or these other arts) a sense of autonomy and self-sufficiency, without which the semblance of timelessness constituted in the act of theoretical reflection would not be possible. © 2021 by Brown...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the translation of Aufheben has been a problem engendering heated discussions and con- troversies. Indeed, in a late text he presented at a translators’ conference, Derrida even turned these discussions and his own “relevant” translation...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 169–187.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the private and the personal ( “Sovereign” ). 13 Historically, the fact that a private banking client might have held high public office or had significant access to public money in some other way was not considered relevant. Once funds had been deposited, the rules and norms of this privacy regime...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 48–93.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Ariella Azoulay; Bonnie Honig Since Hannah Arendt wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1964, her stance toward the Eichmann trial in Israel has been the subject of controversy. This essay considers why Arendt, in her reporting on the trial, seems to have insisted on a criterion of “relevance” in the face...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 125–162.
Published: 01 May 2003
...- lation signals a point in time that heralds the Other of human finitude’s time, the “bri nk of a precipitous fall,” t he advent and event of the regime of calculative-representational thinking: in a word, the time of Technik. What...
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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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differences (1989) 1 (2): 93–104.
Published: 01 July 1989
... such as "Reading Like a Man" (the relevant portions of which will appear in my forthcoming book, Protocols of Reading) that deconstruction is (a) founded on some untenable assumptions about language, (b) often makes its critical effects by holding others to a rigor that it abandons itself at crucial moments...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2024
... for queer and trans and sick black women’s erotic agency in the context of hostile institutional formations such as the academic and medical industrial complexes; and to analyze the relevance of empirical black holes for theorizing polymorphous black female sexualities and erotic freedoms. From inside...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 216–230.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the consideration of sociotechnical problems, the argument is made that these resources might be productively placed in dialogue with existing digital methods and techniques through a reflection on media aesthetics. The article concludes by illustrating the relevance of this general framework with reference...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 48–62.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., is that which holds its punches and tends to maneuver—if it maneuvers—against its own establishment. For reasons of survival, and in order to be counted among the values that grow out of the motif of relevance, theory has had...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 88–94.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... mitments within various theoreti- The regime of metaphysics is not cal traditions and positions while only based on the repression or at the same time trying to reverse...
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differences (2004) 15 (2): 152–171.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the Sudanese Women’s Union since 1956, and she is one of the most outspoken feminists in Africa and the Arab world. She initiated powerful protests against British colonialism as well as against national regimes that suppress women’s...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 92–115.
Published: 01 July 1993
... several articles appeared in the West German press that, due to the extreme harshness and arrogance of their critique, can be called a "media campaign" against Wolf.2 The critics saw the delayed date of publication as indication of her alleged opportunism and collaboration with the communist regime, which...