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differences (2023) 34 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Tom Holert Aiming at rendering “somewhat irrelevant” the “question of sadism” in the critique of film’s “seductive epistemological promise,” Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit argued for a “participation in the film” that is “at once self-reflexive and self-shattering.” Such participation may bring...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and its own production. In short, for Critical Theory, thought becomes historical, political, and nonautonomous in ways that Kantianism cannot avow or allow, and thought that is “critical” must struggle for self-reflexivity visvis...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... language. The return to philology does not contradict, but rather implies, the return to theory. In a similar manner, Tihanov’s radical historicity discloses the naturalization that produces the effect of timelessness in historical phenomena. “The vector of self-reflexivity [ . . . ] helps us...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 150–177.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., self-narration is not so much a distinct genre, like autobiography or memoir; it is a form for becoming critical about the dependencies that make and unmake us—long before we ever even become a “self.” It can be tempting to imagine that the only obstacle to critical reflexivity is external...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 74–95.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of marginal subjects). Extreme self-reflexivity and deep questioning of the prerogatives that allow scholars to speak about others were crucial to the development of queer inquiry in revolt against the othering and objectifying history of the study of homosexuality. While we might avoid some of the more...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 82–98.
Published: 01 September 2008
... closely follows the ideas of Bourdieu, who placed special emphasis on scholarly self- reflexivity in the endeavor to think critically about the world. Bourdieu developed an understanding of scholarly self-reflexivity...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Diskin . New York : Oxford UP , 1978 . Spassova Kamelia . “ Authentic and Heterogeneous Mimesis: Reflection and Self-Reflexivity in Todor Pavlov and Yuri Lotman .” Slavica Tergestina 20 . 1 ( 2018 ): 70 – 97 . Spassova Kamelia . “ Subverting the Theory of Reflection: Modernism...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 34–52.
Published: 01 December 2010
... the productive failure of all Rettung through defense—the productive failure that makes vigilant, self-reflexive writing what it is in the first place. It is here, in the aporia of radical, self-reflexive thought itself, that something...
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 90–126.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in its struggle to represent the non-Western Other—the Western anthropologist must be vigilantly self-reflexive about his/her practice of Othering and maintain a dialectical notion of cultural differ- ence rather than a relativist...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 1–42.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Rossellini, Europa ’51 (1952) Figure 8. Depleted, Roberto Rossellini, Europa ’51 (1952) There are many things to appreciate about this remarkable, self-reflexive sequence, but what I want to underscore is its honest way of acknowledging how cinema itself has been conscripted, coopted by the forces...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2016
...” to Literary Theory , Jonathan Culler mentioned self-reflexivity or “thinking about thinking,” that is, inquiring “into the categories we use in making sense of things” as one of the defining features of theory (14). 5 Vincennes was committed intellectually and politically to anti-colonialism and “third...
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 126–152.
Published: 01 July 1990
... of the critique vis-a-vis its object in his essay. "The Principle of Reason." Derrida's objective here is to politicize the location of the university by making it the site where protocols of radical self-reflexivity are to be elaborated perennially. AJso see the interview with Derrida in Salusinszky...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 93–106.
Published: 01 May 2014
... objectives from those of new media studies, it would radically reshape the field to consider new media studies one of its current components. New media studies is a field that has welcomed self-reflexive critical approaches that blend...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... upon the most general questions of rationality, of self-reflexivity, and of signification” (11). How is it that literature came to play such a role and to provoke “the most general questions,” opening the possibility for a theory that would constantly go beyond its object, to the point that the very...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 July 1996
... this turning round is a "process," it includes an intermediate (or reflexive) stage in which the "object" of sadistic violence "is given up and replaced" not by an "extraneous person," but "by the subject's self." Unlike sadism or masochism proper, reflexive sadomasochism has the effect of splitting...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 104–136.
Published: 01 May 2013
... questions, I will show, is anything but trivial. The act of equipping animals with visual media as a means of self-representation positions them as the new protagonists in a familiar drama of reflexivity, wherein marginalized entities...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 26–45.
Published: 01 May 2014
... are embedded, their organizational structures, instrumentalities, and governing ideas. We might even need a small dose of the self-reflexivity about situatedness that was inherent in cultural studies in its prime, a self-reflexivity...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 55–87.
Published: 01 November 1989
... against the self, but, in the absence of the external authority, he himself plays both roles and is both the active aggressor and the object of aggression. 30 While some analyses of masochism conflate reflexive and true masochism, Dimmesdale's behavior rigorously distinguishes them. 31 His masochism never...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 160–185.
Published: 01 April 1990
... leaves or on soft grasses. . . . Through Ovid's rhetorical tricks, the self-reflexive qualities of the nymph and of the narration merge. In fact, as we shall see, Salmacis's own relation to herself is entirely specular, and Ovid's representation of this alleged "nymphomaniac" accords fully...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 3–54.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... There is a turning round upon the subject's self without an attitude of passivity toward another person. . .. The desire to torture has turned into self-torture and self-punishment, not into masochism [as it is generally understood}. The active voice is changed, not into the passive, but into the reflexive, middle...