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differences (2020) 31 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Kenneth Berger This essay reassesses the concept of spectacle and argues for aesthetic refusal as a key strategy for contesting spectacle’s expanding hold on everyday existence. Against the view that spectacle renders the individual passive, the essay asserts instead that spectacle develops...
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 The “nearly uniform spectacle of blue water and sky” Le Mépris , Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jacques Khalip This article concentrates on the substance of audition in Derek Jarman's Blue . In his last feature film, Jarman makes a decisive ethical and aesthetic break: he shifts value away from the overdetermined cultural premiums associated with the visual ``spectacle'' and onto...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 32–54.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and gender others recall their journeys as a mode of defense, analysis, meaning making. Using vulgar tales to throw shade, while wrestling within and beyond the limits of trauma porn and spectacle, makes for a hard-won cultural legacy and remittance that points to possibilities for survival and being...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 113–131.
Published: 01 September 2006
... but endowed with the
imaginative power to create a sexual life for himself that perfectly mim-
ics the one offered to him by the pornographic spectacle. Pornography’s
offerings are so persuasive in this view that they transform...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 283–293.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 1 The “nearly uniform spectacle of blue water and sky” Le Mépris , Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 ...
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differences (1999) 11 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., the horse was never simply mundane. The
“haute école” or formal dressage of horses had been the exclusive focus of
the many Parisian circuses, the first of which was constructed in 1782.
Equestrian spectacles were also performed...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 1993
... the progressive despatialization and disembodiment of the spectatorial position. The spectator is increasingly detached and dissociated from the space of perception. Such a position is most conducive to the reception of a technologically supported spectacle a spectacle whose principal content is female embodiment...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 May 2023
... with a singular complacency, but the violent spectacle never maintains a privileged position in the palace reliefs. Such an art is enormously suggestive not only about aesthetic responses, but also about our moral relation to history. The Assyrians force us to see a continuity among all forms of violence...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 107–136.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of woman, though the ethnolinguistic gap between them is a crucial difference that is an important part of the construction of the spectacle. As Nakassis has argued (“Tamil-speaking”), within the context of cultural and language politics in Tamil Nadu, the contemporary Tamil-speaking heroine has been...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 88–107.
Published: 01 November 1989
... peculiar waves to become an objectified spectacle. At the same time, this spectacle is bound and bounded. It is with the tension between (or rather the pairing of) these two elements - the objectification and eroticization of the male body and the registration on this body of a masochistic mark - that I...
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 123–156.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... Often, this is a literal translation “back” into
“life” in that many of the specimens are stagings of existing anatomical
works of art, originally two-dimensional etchings and drawings.
As I entered the spectacle of von...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 160–186.
Published: 01 November 1989
... titillating scene of battle, a fearsome but fascinating spectacle of man's war with the woman within and the unsexing - or disturbingly double sexing - it heralds. Virtually every issues-oriented talk show - from Phil Donahue, to 162 The Supreme Sacrifice? "Ask Dr. Ruth," to Geraldo Rivera - has featured...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 April 1998
... of dialectical mastery, in which all suffering and negativity is made bearable, where d fferences 81 even death becomes tolerable as it is negated into its opposite, subjected to the play of mimicry, made into a spectacle, represented as something that can be borne and mastered-overcome. Emmanuel Levinas credits...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 1996
... the simple ethical codes of the early Christians.17 Murder in the Arena The ancient Latin Christian conception of murder was forged not in abstract speculation but in observations ofthe everyday butchery of the arena. These bloody spectacles were described by Christian texts as "public murders," and both...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 28–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (for example, an empty page with an onscreen error message), which makes the Wall as much an information barrier as a display surface for state power. The Great Firewall thus constitutes a wall-screen, a noninformation surface that displays nothing but itself. As such, it stages and performs a spectacle...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 July 1996
...-1970s, has come to dominate mass and (in a more veiled way) elite cultural representations in the U.S. He is the fractured hero, making a spectacle of himself, driven to distraction, and pleasurably tortured by his multiple selves, the one who, like a character from Sam Shepard's Mad Dog Blues (1972...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 89–111.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Bonitzer, Pascal. Le champ aveugle: Essais sur le cinéma . Paris: Gallimard, 1982 . The Cheat . Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. Paramount, 1915 . Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle . Detroit: Black and Red, 1977 . Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image . Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of himself as of an enemy” (147). Here we may remember that linguistic factors play a role: in French, représentation names both what the English call a “representation” and what they call a “performance” or a production (for a spectacle). But Althusser, following the Hegelian-Marxian terminology...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 94–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... in Ghirardo and Forster 649 ). 25 The isolation of Roman (but also medieval) monuments was thus designed, together with the regime’s dedication to grand exhibitions, to turn the fascist land- and cityscapes into a terrain perpetually on display, into, in other words, a permanent spectacle of itself...
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