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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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Silences: “Hispanics,” AIDS, and Sexual Practices
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 February 1989
... - 17 . ANA MARIA ALONSO AND MARIA TERESA KORECK Silences: "Hispanics," AIDS, and Sexual Practices1 Silence . .. is less the absolute limit of discourse than an element that junctions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them. We must try to determine the different ways...
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The Silencing of a Voice: Christa Wolf, Cassandra, and the German Unification
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 92–115.
Published: 01 July 1993
... Christa . What Remains and Other Stories . Trans. van Heurck Jan . Ed. Stephan Alexander . New York : Farrar , 1993 . GERTRUDE POSTL The Silencing of a Voice: Christa Wolf, Cassandra, and the German Unification1 L the early summer of 1990, four months before the German reunification...
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Black Sex in the Quiet
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Shoniqua Roach This essay rereads black feminist engagements with silence and the constellation of terms that vibrate around it—invisibility, interiority, domesticity, privacy—to both demonstrate black feminism’s precarious relationship to silence and indicate the ways in which that contention...
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Is It Lonely (T)here? Intramurals, Black (W)holes, and Black Feminism
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Megan Finch This essay employs the autotheoretical critique of the university and celestial cartography pioneered in Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” to understand the dynamic relationship between the silencing of black academics and black women...
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Mistresses as Masters?: The Textual Pleasures of the Plantation Present
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sara-Maria Sorentino Recent texts in the historiography of slavery have focused on slave-owning women in an attempt to overturn the paradigm of the benevolent mistress. While “benevolence” has silenced and exceptionalized mistresses’ violence, newer interpretations draw from slave testimony...
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The Burrow of Sound
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2011
... oppositions: wakefulness/sleep; inside/outside; cause/disruption of causality; floating/fixation, location/dislocation; time/space; one/multiple; duration/intermittency, sound/silence; subject/Other; reality/fantasy, meaningless/meaning; sound/voice; “being and time,” “being and nothingness,” “being and event...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and silencing—the covid martyrs a category among them. How can we understand this self-relegation to the trash heap—in addition, that is, to Lacan’s description of this dropping and tossing of the body when it occurs as a consequence of the subject’s abject identification with object a in the passage...
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Black, Queer, and Sick: Amplifying Representation’s Noisiness
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Hammonds is ambivalent about queer studies, it is the queerness of black lesbian sexualities that might offer the representational fullness and disruption to norms that she seeks. This essay takes the silence around the black, queer cancer patient to think about how to expand Hammonds’s ideas. It works...
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Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the “Custom” In Turkey
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 172–228.
Published: 01 May 2011
... decade. Although Turkish feminists have long worked to raise awareness of the gendered inequality and violence involved, their efforts until recently were met with stark silence. The increased attention given to honor crimes involves little interest in the patriarchal excesses that affect women across...
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Althusser’s Authorless Theater
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 43–53.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to Reading Capital (“The Object of Capital”). Printed in italics, un théâtre sans auteur , the final four words of the paragraph resound like a musical phrase in the blank space, the print version of silence, between paragraphs: It is sometimes directly exposed in Marx’s analyses, in passages where...
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Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... Ana Maria , and Koreck Maria Teresa . “ Silences, ‘Hispanics,’ AIDS, and Sexual Practices .” Abelove , Barale , and Halperin 110 – 126 . Brown Elsa Barkley . “ Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition From...
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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
... : MIT P , 1988 . Bowlby Rachel . “ Commuting .” Restless Cities . Ed. Beaumont Matthew Dart Gregory . London : Verso , 2010 . 43 – 57 . Braman Sandra . “ When Nightingales Break the Law: Silence and the Construction of Reality .” Ethics and Information Technology 9...
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Black/Lesbian/Bulldagger
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 101–111.
Published: 01 July 1991
... Constantly to Expand .” On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 . New York : Norton , 1979 . 223 - 30 . Smith Barbara . “ And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement .” Moraga and Anzaldúa 59 - 62 . BlacklLesbianlBulldagger...
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Le rejet of Luce Irigaray in Through Vegetal Being
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 137–154.
Published: 01 December 2018
... in the other, including transforming ourselves into “a human who coexists with all the elements of the environment without aiming at dominating them” (48). For that, Irigaray argues for silence in that seeing, and silence, as she puts it, is “left, with undervaluation and even with contempt, to nature...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 1–9.
Published: 01 December 2011
... . Kafka Franz . “ The Silence of the Sirens .” 1936, 1937 . The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections . Trans. Willa Muir Edwin . New York : Schocken , 1946 . 248 – 50 . Nancy Jean-Luc . Listening . 2002 . Trans. Mandell Charlotte . New York : Fordham UP , 2007...
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Index: Volume I
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 187–188.
Published: 01 November 1989
... Copyright © 1989 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1989 Alonso Ana Maria , and Koreck Maria Teresa . “ Silences: ‘Hispanics,’ AIDS, and Sexual Practices .” Winter , 1989 : 101 - 24 . Braidotti Rosi . “ Organs Without...
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“Black (W)holes” and the Propagation of New Possibilities
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 184–192.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 Black HBCUs possibility model queer Spelman women [V]isibility in and of itself does not erase a history of silence nor does it challenge the structure of power and domination, symbolic and material...
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Incandescence, Melancholy, and Feminist Bad Vibes: A Response to Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
... . Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime . Trans. Goldthwait John T. . Berkeley : U of California P , 2003 . Katz Jonathan . “ John Cage’s Queer Silence; or, How to Avoid Making Matters Worse .” Jonathan Katz (blog) . http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/KatzPages...
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The Decay of Sighing: Cesare Pavese’s Lavorare Stanca
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 94–123.
Published: 01 May 2017
... projects in the village of Santo Stefano Belbo: “fallí il disegno” (the scheme failed) (7). More surprisingly, despite having wrested strength from the South Seas and their silence, the sailor returns home from his voyages and from the war not rich in stories but instead, like one of Walter Benjamin’s...
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