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... . Bern : 1962 . 216 – 18 . Horkheimer Max , and Adorno Theodor W. “ The Genesis of Stupidity .” Dialectic of Enlightenment . Trans. Cumming John . New York : Continuum , 1986 . 256 – 58 . Horkheimer Max , and Adorno Theodor W. Dialektik der Aufklärung...

..., Addiction,Mania . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1992 . ———. Dictations: On Haunted Writing . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986 . ———. Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994 . ———. Stupidity . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002 . ———. The Telephone Book...

... . Ronell Avital . “ The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity .” 8 . 2 : 1 – 22 . Rudolph Katherine . “ ‘This Body of My Dreams’: Descartes on The Body of Language .” 8 . 3 : 53 – 78 . Savran David . “ The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture...

... in the American Historical Romance susan bernstein 143 (Re)Viewing Stupidity Editors’ note: differences wishes to thank Indiana Univer- sity Press for thirteen years...

... or fornication ( Matyszczyk ). She is simply standing in front of a cutout of Snoop Dogg, and one wonders: would this image have been singled out had she not been white and the rapper black? The moral of this and so many other stories of slut-shaming is: don’t be stupid enough to expose yourself online because...

...: Random, 1998 . 176 -236. Kreienrock, Joerg. “Kleiner. Feiner. Leichter. Über Nuancen and Details im Werk Robert Walsers.” Diss . New York u, 2005 . Ronell, Avital. “Kathy Goes to Hell: On the Irresolvable Stupidity of Acker's Demise.” Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker . Ed. Amy...

..., not too long ago, I used to be full of hatred. It'sfading. I think I'm not responsiblefor them. I'm thinking something stupid: I have a baby and you don't. Maybe it's not even true, I don't know. But this is how I see it and . .. I'm a bit sorry. It's stupid. I'd like to know how much lowe you...

... with Philip Good, resists altogether the sonnet’s limitation to individual emotion and genius.15 Allusion is further fi gured as connection in “Other than what’s gone on and stupid art,” the one sonnet in this collection...

..., allowing her hair to “stream wildly,” trying to decide if she, like the enslaved woman she is writing about, is stupid or crazy (4). It is a style of writing that has gotten her into much trouble from editors, who refused to publish...

... psychoanalytic story). Whereas “the former is entirely aimed at ‘making us believe that it has some sort of meaning,’ ” the latter is focused on the stupidity voiced by the patient, “what agitates and stirs things up” ( Chiesa 18–19 ). We defer to the former, but psychoanalytic babbling articulates “what bothers...

... of crises of knowing—of feeling stupid/not stupid—a feeling that also revolves around the difficulty of squaring their sense of what was happening with the shame of being the subject who names his conduct as sexual. Rachel Denhollander (the first victim to come forward publicly) told investigators that she...

... mendiants nourrissent leur vermine . [Stupidity, error, stinginess, and sin Occupy our minds and work our bodies . And we nourish our lovable remorse The way beggars feed their vermin.] As the poem intimates in the final stanza, where the bored reader “dreams of gallows while smoking his...

... accomplice [risultare il mio complice]? Do you need more money ? — Money? I had some, I spent it the wrong way, and if I had more I would spend it even worse . — Listen, Walter, can I ask you a stupid question? — Stupidity is my favorite game . — Who am I to you? I mean, what do I represent...

... . jonathan elmer Babo’s Razor; or, Discerning the Event in an Age of Differences How can he be so stupid? How can he fail to see that, when the Ashantee clang their hatchets together, this is a threat, not an amuse- ment? Does...

... ), Berlant accuses critics of using their skepticism to protect their ignorance. Instead of being curious about why people make erroneous or inappropriate or downright self-destructive object choices, critics repeatedly assume that people are stupid, weak, or don’t know any better, to which Berlant responds...

... êtes bête!” (70) [how stupid you are The adjective “bête,” “stupid,” brings to mind the noun “bête,” meaning “animal,” “creature,” or “pet”: Félicité and Loulou are each in their own way “bête.” Increas- ingly isolated in a world...

... of May 19, 2010, in Wiebel 119. Works Cited Arendt Hannah . Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil . New York : Penguin , 1994 . Arendt Hannah . “ Eichmann Was Outrageously Stupid .” Interview with Joachim Fest . The Last Interview and Other Conversations...

... diffusing bodily pleasures, "desubjugation of the self' through escape from identity in sexuality, and the "stupidity" of the notion that S/M has anything to do with discovering or liberating a "deep violence" within (273, 279). Despite Miller's endlessly repeated lament that he is compelled to tell...

... briefly argues with them about this “stupid word” (“Why over?” he exclaims; “What’s over, and mere nothing, are the same”), as if he were questioning the possibility that Faust’s life is finally absolved , that is, complete. And indeed, in the very moment when the redeeming of Faust’s debt coincides...

...: The past—which now from the height of my progress I regard with a slightly scornful pity—is that which is strictly a passive object [. . “How stupid I was then!” or “How wicked I was!” It exists...