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Mother, Politician, and Guerilla: The Emergence of a New Political Imagination in Kurdistan through Women’s Bodies and Speech
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the legal and illegal, and the woman guerilla, the limit between the past and future. The truths of these figures reveal the impossibilities of living under colonial, patriarchal, and repressive conditions and unleash a force that challenges the boundaries instituted on speech, law, and politics by liberal...
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Unbearable Speech
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., and Foucault’s main concern, is politics or, as Foucault puts it, “the relationships between what I say and a certain political practice” (61). This essay is being written. Like the now posthumous speech of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s poem-essay, “A Poem Is Being Written,” this essay is being written toward...
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The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 118–151.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Grace Lavery “The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech” critically examines the discourses of trans feminism and free speech absolutism as they have converged in a number of public controversies in the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump. It argues that the crisis of democratic...
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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
... of questions of what stands before meaning—this is a politics of noise and speech, rather than one focusing on speech and language. Second, the article keys in to a certain reorganization of the senses emerging in contemporary, pervasively mediated ecology—seeking to outline what might be termed...
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On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing Glove
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 74–111.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Mara Mills The “hearing glove” presumably invented by Norbert Wiener has been relegated to a footnote in most histories of cybernetics. This article surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of sex as crime, the confessional risks and rewards of “testimony,” the sadomasochism of Catharine MacKinnon’s influential work, and the political necessity of refusing visibility and speech as the ascribed priorities for black feminist sexual freedom. The final thematic foregrounds the university...
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The Debt Narrative and the Credit Crunch of Democracy
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 59–75.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Emmanuel Bouju This paper argues that the “debt narrative,” quite like the Rosetta Stone, is a historical, symbolic, and aesthetic way for us to decipher the interfaces between the three languages of economy, politics, and ethics. Debt narrative is not a simple figure of speech, literature...
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Solidarity Words
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 33–50.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for talking in the clinic, the essay also takes up the example of the Hollywood film Pitch Perfect , which understands multivocal speech in music as a venue for solidarity. The construction results in a different relation: the subject relates to their own symptom askance; the subject’s discourse hosts her...
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Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 5–23.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Willy Apollon This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author’s clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager–but under...
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Animals That Talk; or, Stutter
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differences (2004) 15 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 May 2004
... forthcoming with the same press. Allbutt, Thomas Clifford, ed. A System of Medicine, by Many Writers . Vol. 7 . New York: 1896-99 . Arthur, Robert. The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot . Vol. 2 . Illus. Ed Vebell and Harry Kane. New York: Random, 1964 . Biran, I., and I. Steiner. “The Speech...
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Normative Violence, Vulnerability, and Responsibility
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., and Sacred Life in Benjamin's `Critique of Violence.' ” Political Theologies . Ed. Hent de Vries. New York: Fordham up, 2006 . 201 -19. ____. “Ethical Ambivalence.” The Turn to Ethics . Ed. M. Garber and R. L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 2000 . 15 -28. ____. Excitable Speech: A Politics...
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Inviting Catastrophe: The Welcoming of the Act in Psychoanalysis
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 49–68.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the real object that maintains, at the heart of the human being, the irreducible desire to create something else.” The aim of a psychoanalysis, therefore, is to establish a space for the speech that sustains this quest, “beyond the stakes of civilization, in service to the human and its future” (13...
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Taking Compliments: J. L. Austin with Madeleine de Scudéry
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 82–118.
Published: 01 November 1998
... . Bourdieu Pierre . Outline of a Theory of Practice . Trans. Nice Richard . London : Cambridge UP , 1977 . Butler Judith . Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative . New York : Routledge , 1997 . Caillon O. Dictionnaire Etymologiques . Chambery : Edsco , 1962...
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Ghost Effects
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 53–86.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucination . London: Routledge, 2000 . Leroi-Gourhan, Andre. Gesture and Speech . Cambridge, ma: mit p, 1993 . Lescarboura, Austin C. “Edison's Views on Life and Death.” Scientific American 73.18 ( 30 Oct . 1920 ): 446 . Martin, Henri...
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Aberrant Narcissisms in Dolto, Lacan, and Fanon: Notes on a Wounded Imaginary
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 93–135.
Published: 01 December 2017
... unconscious desire through the “nonsense” of unconscious speech, so too, cultural critique can move us from identitarian and imperialist concerns to a symbolic politics by privileging speech and/or social acts that fail to produce meaning, thereby undoing the illusions of control and mastery bolstering...
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The Question at Play
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differences (2025) 36 (1): 168–177.
Published: 01 May 2025
...: questions that lead to conscious and unconscious phantasms of truth, history, freedom, and (or as ) foreplay. Hence, I will begin with the first clause of this query, an inquiry into inquiry itself: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality. The syntax punctuates the empty speech of causality...
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The Linguistic Turn Revisited: On Time and Language
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 64–95.
Published: 01 September 2006
... J. Walsh. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1984 . 20 -33. ____. The Trinity. Ed. John Burnaby. Augustine: Later Works . Philadelphia: Westminster, 1955 . Derrida, Jacques. “La Différance.” Margins of Philosophy . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1982 . 3 -27. ____. Speech...
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Right to Vote or Right to Revolt? Arendt and the British Suffrage Militancy
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., Cheryl R., ed. Speeches and Trails of the Militant Suffragettes: The Women's Social and Political Union, 1903–1918 . London: Associated u Presses, 1999 . Kristeva, Julia. The Sense and Nonsense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis . Trans. Jeanine Herman. New York: Columbia up, 2000...
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Sexuality, Politicization, May 1968: Situating Christiane Rochefort's Printemps au parking
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differences (2001) 12 (3): 33–68.
Published: 01 December 2001
... the political challenges those events
could be taken to propose. As such, they set out to inhibit certain forms of
political speech. I begin here by looking at a few examples of these speech-
inhibiting efforts, before turning to some...
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The Promise of Oblivion: A Rhetorical Predicament in Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, and Beyond
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 94–121.
Published: 01 September 2021
...? Can a promise forgotten still truthfully be called a promise ? Does its oblivion coincide with its breach? Can a forgotten promise anticipate future promises, beget a renewed series of speech acts from the depths of its own traceless loss? This seems unlikely to be the case. Nevertheless, the article...
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