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...Lingzhen Wang The essay introduces Li Xiaojiang and her early works from the 1980s and 1990s in three steps. First, it closely situates Li and her works in both the general historical context of China’s transformation from the socialist to the postsocialist era and the most relevant intellectual...

... as it really is. Although fantasy is a political trap, it is also the key to emancipation. But in order for fantasy to be emancipatory, we must approach it in the manner of film noir, which allows fantasy to infiltrate every aspect of the filmic world that it depicts. When we take this step, the ideological...

... these: the “subject effect” and the “shame effect.” What links these different effects, the author argues, is that in every case the effect is closely tied to a process of naming or stepping forth— what is here called “instantiation.” A theoretical account of instantiation is therefore necessary if we...

... and a first lady who steadfastly refuses to step into the maternal modeling of the role. “Mother,” in this way, names the evangelical revival, the staggering rollback of women’s reproductive rights and healthcare access, both nationally and globally, as well as the federal assaults on trans people from...

... Sexing Differances step taken by her necessarily be subjected to the urgency of this topo-economical concern (essential, it is true, and ineradicably philosophical)? This step only constitutes...

... theory. From a feminist perspective, Szilard’s contribution to information theory has been read as a critical step in the dematerialization of living organisms toward life as “genetic code” in the mid-twentieth century (Kay; Keller...

... proponents of twelve-step programs, to the drug addicts and crack babies represented by the policy establishment. Indeed, as an explanatory system addiction seems to make intelligible the quite disparate worlds of middle-class subjectivity and under-class adjection, rendering both as always on the edge...

...." 4.3: 91-132. - - . Guest editor, 4.3. "Trouble in the Archives: Introduction." 4.3: iii-xiv. Rogoff, Irit. "Tiny Anguishes: Reflections on Nagging, Scholastic Embarrass- ment, and Feminist Art History." 4.3: 38-65. Ronell, Avita!. "Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps beyond The Plea- sure...

... as a realist essen- tialism of sexual difference. The account of this difference includes two crucial steps that distinguish between human sex difference and human sexual difference. First, human beings share with all elements of the cos...

..., which I would want to re-assess critically. It is quite clear that Freud's own metapsychological account ofthe "origin" ofthe social contract is fully immersed in a world view and in a perception of sociosexual relations which no longer describes who we are, but rather allows us to re-trace the steps...

... sense.” Balibar does not take that step in this essay, which is not to say that he might not want to take it elsewhere. What he does here, with a certain zest for paradox, is to use the analogy between ideology and theatrical performance to defend the significance of politics as a performance...

..., or otherwise. To do so, I take yet one more step back in Bersani’s corpus to his 1965 study, Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art , a book in which the concept of habit emerges as the keystone for testing the resistance not only of identities but of desire itself. One might even argue...

... to the algorithmic processes contained within the program.11 Indeed, an algorithm is typically defined as a step-by-step procedure for carrying out a task (think: recipe). It contains a finite number of steps and is computable, meaning...

... opened, both for itself and for the readers and writers that follow, the possibility of planting a fi rst forward step into a space no longer organized around and governed by phallic privilege. There is no question that this step...

... working for and against their avowed goal, as though the only way to prevent the coup from happening was to carry it through as far as possible. When Petit stepped on the wire, then, Blondeau would confront something “beyond reality” that had nothing to do with the narrative sequence of events that gave...

... democracy has redeemed this country" in the past, it could not fail to do so again in the future. But Cole goes one step further to predict that the coming democratic resurgence would more likely emerge "out ofunofficial or obscure places" (114). While the Brown decision clearly established the postwar...

... itself, to posit itself in something other than itself. It is only when this step is taken that the Idea becomes what it really is. Hence the first movement of the dialectic: the Idea negates its essence in immediacy and becomes the world of the senses. In other words, the world of the senses comes...

... step away from the realm of the fully contingent, the historically unique, the absolutely singular. From one familiar perspective, it is in this sense to strip what happened of its eventfulness by making categorical resemblances...

... of masculinity, but rather the nearly mad identification of gay men with them. His critique of the power of masculinity does not ignore the gay fascination (including my own) with it. To disregard the fascination with masculinity would be to evade, already at the outset, a reality of the sexual—a first step...