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differences (2012) 23 (3): 206–223.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... On every level, one can never reach the other—even the other within oneself. This paradox on the micro scale that constitutes all macro-scale matter calls into question the spatial and temporal fixity of identity. Barad shows that the notion of a unified, autonomous self is problematic not just...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... necessarily dictating it), then the peculiar identity and ubiquity of a norm is neither restricted nor prohibited. In sum, what is normal about a norm? This essay explores power’s intransitivity, its “self-possession,” by interrogating the way that cultural analysis routinely assumes that the workings...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 59–89.
Published: 01 December 2008
... no basis in presuppositions of identity (such as we tend to underwrite as spirit, soul, or nature). “[I]t is because the world takes the form of separa- tion,” he writes, “that its experience takes the form of ‘self’” (Hegel 4...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... aren’t we less more often?” And yet, Bersani describes his particular practice of care of the self and the will to freedom in terms that never feel as unlikely as the surrounding culture, rooted as it is in “the collusion [one wants also to say “the collision ”] of ego-identities” ( Bersani and Phillips...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 64–95.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., both as the condition of the constitution of the transempirical self-identity of sense, or ideality (the ideality of meaning), and as the condition of the appearance of meaning to consciousness.6 In this regard, his analysis...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 May 2023
... exclusionary sexual desire: an implicated, indiscriminate fascination with the world’s appearances, indifferent to the psychology of desire. [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 exclusion fascination homo-ness self-identity...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 34–52.
Published: 01 December 2010
... by Defending It? quo, what kind of relationship can be imagined to connect the sphere of vigilant thought, along with the critical writing that it sponsors, to the nonaffirmative rescuing of its elusive and non-self-identical objects...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 41–51.
Published: 01 December 2005
... only appear in its effacement and violation. On the one hand, the event of giving presupposes a self-identical subject who intends to give something to someone, where this something can be a thing or a symbolic object. Insofar...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 149–160.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... The theoretical insights variously produced by de Man, Der- rida, and Johnson work against this danger while also acknowledging its inescapability. Each argues the non-self-identity of, the fundamental rupture within, the entities...
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 159–184.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., nothing more. He lives only in us. But we are never ourselves, and between us, identical to us, a 172 Mourning the Other, Cultural Cannibalism, and the Politics of Friendship 'self' is never in itself or identical to itself" (Memoires 28). Ifwe are never proper to ourselves, self-identical...
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 105–125.
Published: 01 July 1990
... interrogation ofrepresentation is inev- itably caught up in a set of persistently ambivalent ontological claims. Recent feminist criticisms of poststructuralism and poststructuralist feminism take issue with what appears to be a refusal to grant a pre-given, pre-linguistic or self-identical status to the real...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 276–282.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in our reading practices: oppositions become unstable, concepts cannot (and must not) settle into self-identity but instead open themselves up to semantic mobility and, pushed to the very limit of what it can offer, language begins to work on itself—which is to say on us—word by word. The only ethical...
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 May 2001
... masculine self. Replacing the feminine with his self- identical son (which Irigaray argues does not allow the child to be “for himself”)2, the lover establishes a sacrilegious line of descent from a Father God, to father man, to son...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 23–42.
Published: 01 November 2015
... be assimilated into the terms of ideology. Under certain conditions, the wager goes, the disturbance of the field cannot be quelled; the dislocation of the self-satisfied and self-identical ego cannot be reversed, except through a “relocation” within the real that is bound up with potential revolutionary action...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 22–52.
Published: 01 May 2003
... recept ion, cogniti on, and producti on, in which the subject functions as the self-identical and foundational site of the production of meaning, Foucault elucidates the “reciproc al genesis of the subject and the object...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 88–94.
Published: 01 December 2005
... or and self-identity. This, I think, is ruling them out. While it chal- what his reading of Nietzsche in lenges the notion of sexual dif- Spurs (ambiguously) implies...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 44–66.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Zach . My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games . London : McFarland , 2009 . Wenz Karin . “ Death .” Wolf and Perron 310 – 16 . Wolf Mark J. P. Perron Bernard , eds. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies . New York : Routledge , 2014...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–128.
Published: 01 April 1993
... transformed into a claim of identity" (54). The claim of identity is thus precipitated by this tension between the mimetic logic of the subject and the subject's "own" antimimetic logic - a claim of self-determination and self-possession as antimimetic in principle as it is fundamentally mimetic in practice...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 69–78.
Published: 01 May 2023
...). In this sense the unmoored quotation marks around Anna’s “mistake,” like the human “mistake” at the book’s end, are the diacritical inscription of a narcissistic mirroring that wrenches the subject free of herself. Mistake as “mistake” marks the displacement of non-self-identical correspondence...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 75–100.
Published: 01 July 1991
... a gay identity by "coming out of the closet" and becoming part of "los de Ambiente" (245). The masculine stance of the internacionales often places them at odds, however, with the more feminine joto, who also seeks self-affirmation and a less stigmatized status. Since these stigmatized, 86 Chicano Men...