... for the office of president of the United States. Challenging the practical application of theoretical claims of race as a social construction, “Can’t You See I’m White?” explores the ways in which their racial and gender “difference” from the typical roster of white males seeking the presidency has made some...

... as the chirping of crickets. We see nothing, but, if we recognize the sound, we assume we are in the country. The black screen gives way to a light that approaches us head-on from a distance; after a moment we can identify the expanding headlight of a train, truck, or bus. The vague image is itself highly...

... an hour or so, he decided to return home, drenched by rain as much as sweat due to the humidity and warmth in the air. The next morning, Oh posted one of his photos to his Facebook page, and it went viral immediately (see fig. 1 ). It was reprinted in newspapers, was discussed on radio broadcasts...

.... If, as some claim, critique has nothing to reveal given that all is there to be seen in this age of electronic and televisual exposure, what is it we see when we see gender? What lure is entailed in the postcritical? What is the lure of gender? And what political and critical stakes do such questions carry...

.... Contesting ahistorical accounts of imaginary plenitude underpinning theoretical rejections of identity, the essay insists on the need to see imaginary identitarianism and its symbolic and real consequences in terms of heuristic and situated “narcissistic wounds” that expose the profoundly unequal logic...

..., enables us to see the démodé as a mechanism that makes possible the radical dispossession of time. Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved...

...Irving Goh This essay presents a critique of Luce Irigaray’s contribution to Through Vegetal Being , one of several contemporary theoretical works involving a “turn to plant life.” Irigaray there adopts a “reject” position drawn from her intellectual life that she sees as well in plant life, still...

... provoking. Today's society has problems precisely with the idea of loss, which is why we see the emergence of options promising to impose control on what is often uncontrollable. © 2009 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2009 renata salecl is Senior...

..., and Paradise” analyzes accretions of stories about the Assassins to see how the Assassins got their name, were believed to anticipate an Islamic paradise in the afterlife, and came to represent for the West a volatile nexus of sex and violence. This effort of literary archeology considers both Eastern...

... in The History of Sexuality , volume 1 . Butler’s description of how norms work and, more particularly, how norms might be subverted is radically inconsistent with Foucault’s account of the processes of normalization that characterize modern power. This inconsistency allows us to see that, despite its apparent...

..., the authors see it emerging in Jacobean tragedy whenever something happens to the body of the legitimate monarch and poses a threat to culture itself, endangering kinship along with the metaphysics of kingship. In Hobbes's Leviathan , sovereignty is no longer immanent in nature and the order of the universe...

.... The author wants to see Darwin’s career-long fascination with the coevolution of orchids and their insect pollinators as the emergence within his theory of an alternative to natural selection—a positive force of attraction that works both on and through variation. The currency of the orchid-wasp relationship...

... offers an alternative point of view. Benjamin’s focus on gesture offers concrete ways of reconceptualizing both identification and disidentification. Read together with his critique of legal violence, one can also see how the gesture displays and arrests the destructive power of the state. Benjamin thus...

... 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...

... extermination plans.” This essay shows how we can see this if we look not only at what Arendt says in Eichmann but also at what she does in that book, at what she recovers from the trial as she casts about for resources that may help renew judgment, responsibility, spontaneity, creativity, and imagination...

...Ramsey McGlazer This essay analyzes Roberto Rossellini’s Europa ’51 (1952), a film Gilles Deleuze made famous for its way of “seeing convicts” in a range of social institutions, including the factory, the bourgeois family, and the psychiatric hospital. Recent accounts of Rossellini’s career have...

... , 1988 . Wright David F. “ Homosexuals or Prostitutes? The Meaning of ARSENOKOITAI (I Cor. 6:9. I Tim. 1:10) .” Vigiliae Christianae 58 ( 1984 ): 125 - 55 . The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens D A\. I D M. HAL PER I N You see these people here...

... can take place. In effect, we see, we read Augustine, who believes that he is seeing reading happen because Ambrose’s “eye glided over the pages,” even though he cannot see to the heart of the other’s reading, to what precisely he locates here in Ambrose’s heart, which “searched out the sense.” Thus...

... room of her former housemaid. It is that encounter that makes her rethink the supposed certainty and foundation of her subjectivity, making her realize that that subjectivity has been determined more by others than by her own free desire. She then begins to see that by cling- ing to her former...

... that is at once echoed and capsized a few seconds later by the image of the maid reclining on a bed that belongs to her mistress and from which she needs to get up precisely so as to serve her mistress. For the dog as allegory of fidelity in Umberto D . and its relation to De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette , see P...