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differences (1989) 1 (3): 55–87.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . Madison : U of Wisconsin P , 1989 . Willis Sharon . “ Feminism's Interrupted Genealogies .” Diacritics 18 . 1 ( 1988 ): 29 - 41 . CHRISTOPHER N E"'FIELD The Politics of Male Suffering: Masochism and Hegemony in the American Renaissance It is not just that God wants to become man; he...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 May 2003
...CAROLYN J. DEAN Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 carolyn j. dean is Professor of History at Brown University. She is currently working on a study tentatively entitled “Empathy,Suffering, and Indifference after the Holocaust.” Adorno...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ankhi Mukherjee This essay examines singular traumas suffered by Tibetan refugees and expedient and culture-specific cures for the same. Drawing on Honey Oberoi Vahali’s Lives in Exile and other ethnographic studies of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, it shows how classic trauma theory...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
... illustrate the deep psychological and physical suffering that narrators experienced as they navigated the labyrinth of socially sanctioned practices in their communities. They also communicate lessons about deep structures of power and the blurred boundaries of religion and ritual. The narratives reveal...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 177–197.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Todd McGowan The political problem that we suffer from is not our adherence to ideological fantasies that promise us an enjoyment that is false or unattainable. The political struggle does not involve an effort to escape the pull that fantasy has over us so that we can look at the situation...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Mikko Tuhkanen Can we appear in the world otherwise than seduced by the promise of its suffering? Persistently returning to this question, Leo Bersani seeks the potential for the human subject’s nonsadistic reinitiation. He does this by visiting the “ontological laboratories” of Baudelaire, Freud...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 178–201.
Published: 01 December 2024
... scale. The humanitarian impulse is rooted, partly, in the desire to narrate oneself onto the globe, linking a savior to a suffering other, with Africa problematically positioned as the ultimate target of Western benevolence. Through analysis of NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names , this essay...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 42–73.
Published: 01 December 2012
...; and that of Mrs. B, a woman who suffers from amnesia and wears a camera in the hope of leading a normal life in which she can share the past with loved ones. The author discusses how new recording technologies are both a symptom of, and a cure for, anxieties about time, arguing that prototypical recording...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2010
... studies has turned its focus to nonhuman animals, both because of the violence they suffer at human hands and because of the difficulties humans have in assessing the extent of that violence. This article examines the animal turn by tracing three theoretical moments or trends for which the ``the animal...
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 May 2001
... to the other—a movement from the active, conscious thought of the Said back into the passive, unconscious sensuality of the Saying. For Lévinas, the subject of jouissance exists prior to the subject of suffering, and ethicity lies...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 December 2020
... amounts, once again, to fostering the logic of debt. Remember Singer’s idea of effective altruism that I quoted above: “we should do the most good we can”—which means that we should give, and give to strangers who suffer. “I begin with the assumption that suffering and death from lack of food, shelter...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 116–146.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and Suffering . Cambridge: Polity, 2001 . Cornell, Drucilla. Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity . Lanham, Md.: Rowman, 2005 . ____. Philosophy of the Limit . New York: Routledge, 1992 . ____. “Rethinking the Time of Feminism.” Benhabib et al. 145 -56. Davies, Jody, and Mary...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 July 1996
..., for the trauma sufferer dreams repeatedly of his accident ("Anyone who accepts it as something self-evident that their dreams should put them back at night into the situation that caused them to fall ill has misunderstood the nature of dreams" [13 The important point is that these dreams cannot be read as wish...
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 79–127.
Published: 01 November 1996
... readers desirous of an authority of their own, completion-as in the author's complete works - becomes the fatal cost of a certain readerly comfort. But what exactly does comfort mean? Often confused with a generalized freedom (from want, poverty, disease, suffering), comfort is a state of ease...
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 195–204.
Published: 01 December 2006
... also suffered a disruption of love by a sort of Nazi inva- sion. She refers to that love by various names: literary studies, literary structure, art, metaphor, formalism, theory, and implicitly, Paul de Man. In the essay’s broad...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., which safeguards its oppositional force, at the same time distances literature from suffering and affective possibilities of experi- ence. As Adorno puts it, ‘aesthetic autonomy remains external to suffering’ ” (Ziarek 80...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 144–158.
Published: 01 April 1991
... on this transvaluation of good and bad into good and evil, and the derivation of the good of those who suffer from the evil of those who make them suffer: "the wretched alone are the good the suffering, deprived, sick, ugly and you, the powerful and noble, are on the contrary the evil, the cruel, the lustful...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 81–96.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., or humor—are disqualified from consideration by the putative biological criterion. This exclusionary criterion covertly absolves the political community of its disregard of the fullness of virtue, love, and suffering that other...
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differences (2025) 36 (1): 115–132.
Published: 01 May 2025
... distinction between the ‘degenerate queer’ and the ‘derelict black-as-object,’ ” he writes, “is that one possesses a grammar to express unfreedom and the other lacks communicability altogether” (“Onticide” 20). Thus while Wilderson posits a “unique grammar of suffering” ( Afropressimism 220) associated...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the mother, in particular, are theorized in the Kurdish Movement. According to the leader of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, Abdullah Öcalan, family gives rise to sexual and labor exploitation, repression, violence, and suffering rendered invisible through discourses of love and intimacy. Exposing...