...; there are assassinations. –Deleuze and Parnet In 2010, a difference s issue addressed “the question of theory” by exploring “the distinction, in this theoretical moment, between what is and what is not theory” (Weed and Rooney). The present issue returns to the question of the distinction of theory. It takes as its...

... carved up oppositionally into ever smaller parcels. Universalism continued to describe a reality in which people are not identities, but its insight was ignored. And so they lived unhappily ever after . The burning question in relation to queer theory today is whether or not its capaciousness has...

... . Adamson, Jane, Richard Freadman, and David Parker. Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999 . Anonymous Queers. “Queers Read This: I Hate Straights.” The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics . Ed. Larry Gross...

...]. Kobayashi Hideo o koete [Overcoming Kobayashi Hideo]. Ed. Karatani Kôjin and Nakagami Kenji. Tokyo: Kawade shobô, 1979 . 139 –86. Nihon Eiga Kantoku Zenshû [Dictionary of Japanese film directors]. Tokyo: Kinema Junpô Sôkan, 1976 . Noguchi, Takehiko. Tanizaki Jun'ichirôron [Theory...

... in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother.”PMLA 117 ( 2002 ): 265 -77. Butler, Judith. “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification.” The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997 . 132 -50. Callahan, John F. The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and History in the Novels of F...

... Powers Debates (University Press of Kansas, 1992) and is currently completing a book entitled Who's Your Daddy? Constitutional Parody, Queer Theory, and Popular Culture . Bell, Derrick. And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice . New York: Basic, 1987 . ____. Faces...

... narratives about the legacy of deconstructive theory. Just as Shakespeare's second tetralogy reinforces the submission of pleasure to use and vanity to virtue, so have critics tended to redeem the forms of pleasure for which deconstruction has been routinely vilified. Because the demand for ethical...

...Sylvia Schafer This article reflects on the relief with which mainstream historical scholarship has distanced itself in the last decade or so from serious engagements with the so-called linguistic turn of the later twentieth century. This twenty-first-century repudiation of theory continually...

... of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty’s formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and difference that may be the grounds for a renewed understanding of historical difference. The essay makes a case for the relevance...

...Mary Caputi Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Adorno Theodor . Aesthetic Theory . Trans. Lenhardt C. . Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 . Adorno Theodor . Negative Dialectics...

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...Ellen Rooney Discipline and Vanish: Feminislll, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies ELLEN ROONEY cultural studies is not one thing; it has never been one thing. " (Hall, "Emergence" 11) Headnote (1990) In November of 1988, the National Association of Scholars held...

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...Lisa C. Bower Copyright © 1991 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1991 Works Cited Alford C. Fred . Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory . New Haven : Yale UP , 1989 . Ashe Marie . “ Mind's Opportunity: Birthing...

... and Donato Eugenio . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1972 . 247 - 72 . Dews Peter . “ Editor's Introduction .” Habermas , Habermas 1 - 34 . Dews Peter . Logics of Disintegration: Post-structuralist Thought and the Claims of Political Theory . London : Verso , 1987...

...Teresa de Lauretis Copyright © 1988 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1988 Works Cited Alcoff Linda . “ Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory .” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society...

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...: The Limits of Social Constructionism .” Socialist Review 17 . 3-4 ( 1987 ): 9 - 54 . Frye Marilyn . “ Lesbian Feminism and the Gay Rights Movement: Another View of Male Supremacy, Another Separatism .” The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory . Trumansburg, NY : Crossing , 1983...

... , 1986 . 210 - 31 . Rose Jacqueline . “ Introduction - II .” Lacan, Feminine Sexuality 27 - 57 . Wilde Oscar . “ The Decay of Lying .” Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's. Ed. Beckson Karl . Chicago : Academy , 1981 . 167 - 94 . Penile Reference in Phallic Theory...

...Daniel Wilson Freud first theorizes the drive through Wilhelm Fliess’s theory of bisexuality, which proposes that human life is structured by the periodic expression of a masculine and a feminine substance. Long after his break with Fliess, Freud maintains elements of Fliess’s theory, arguing...