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differences (2004) 15 (2): 118–151.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... New York: St. Martin, 1998 . 139 -57. Farac, Mehmet. Tore Kiskacinda Kadin [Woman in the Grip of Tradition]. Istanbul: Cagdas Yayinlari, 1998 . Filkins, Dexter. “Honor Killings Defy Legislation in Turkey:eu Candidacy Set Back by Stoning Deaths.” New York Timescited in International Herald...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Leti Volpp This article shows how depictions of immigrant culture can limit the lives of immigrants to a problematic battle between “tradition and modernity.” As illustrated in the portrayal of a case in which immigrant parents murdered their teenaged daughter, Tina Isa, the discourse of tradition...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 36–62.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of historicity, historical methodology and, foremost, fantasy. Does the “scholar’s archive,” as defined by Ann Cvetkovich, even exist? Is there really such an unambiguous difference between the historian’s view on the traditional archive, filled with bureaucratic waste, and the allegedly radical archive...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 130–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to traditional Confucian thought, one reflected in the work of the prolific author and cultural entrepreneur Li Yu (1611-80). Given his imbrication in both traditional networks of elite men and in the increasingly important realm of the market economy, Li Yu provides a useful entry point into the analysis...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 150–171.
Published: 01 September 2013
... culture, Li Yugang has won the recognition of both market and mainstream cultures, successfully adding a modern edge to the traditional art. Like reality television shows in the West, Li Yugang’s cross-dressing performances tend to use sensationalism to attract viewers and to increase advertising revenue...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 May 2023
...S. Pearl Brilmyer This essay explores Leo Bersani’s relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Peter Goodrich Common law is predicated historically upon a sense of the common, of custom and use time out of mind. The legal tradition has its roots in a guild, an elite community whose common opinion and conversations provided the substance and sensibility of the normative. Remediation of law...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Timothy Bewes This article discusses Dicle Koğacıoğlu's 2004 essay “The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey.” It considers Koğacıoğlu's formulation of the “tradition effect” in the light of several other “effects” put forward by social theorists and philosophers: the “individual effect...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 14–58.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., Hegel does not translate a canonical text from the Western tradition, but rather strives to translate a theological-philosophical language that does not yet exist. In this orientation toward a language that is not yet, his first major philosophical work—and translation project—is oracular in ways...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 116–141.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Xiao Liu This essay focuses on the cinematic form of revolutionary melodrama, or, more specifically, on alterations made to family melodrama in the construction of the big socialist family as an imagined social space. Reading Red Detachment of Women (1961) in the tradition of family melodrama...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 128–167.
Published: 01 May 2008
... as an ontological category, Cavarero disrupts the sacrificial economy of traditional ontology. © 2008 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2008 adriana cavarero is the author, most recently, of Stately Bodies (University of Michigan Press, 2002), Le filosofie...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 40–86.
Published: 01 May 2009
... conjunction of necessity and impossibility, distinct from previous forms of contradiction (antinomies in Kant and dialectical contradiction in Hegel) and therefore historically situated in relation to the tradition of metaphysics. He argues that the other two modal categories, possibility and contingency...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to the tradition of the philosophy of nature and interpreting Butler as offering, in spite of her focus on the genealogy of claims about sex, also a theory of sex itself, a theory of sex as an effect entirely of gender. This approach to reading differs from Irigaray's own reading method of expanding...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 235–239.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that is either alive or dead, current or outmoded. As long
as we remain within the framework of a music grounded principally in
relationships of pitch and destined to be played traditionally on traditional
instruments, the notion is still...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 240–248.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that is either alive or dead, current or outmoded. As long
as we remain within the framework of a music grounded principally in
relationships of pitch and destined to be played traditionally on traditional
instruments, the notion is still...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Richard Grusin Digital humanities (DH) finds itself at a crossroads, particularly in its relation to the traditional humanities. As evidenced in current discussions of the future of the humanities, in print, online, and at recent mla conventions, there is a stark contrast, and according...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Patrick Jagoda This essay approaches games and gamification as a major problematic of the still emerging digital humanities. Games—through their mechanics, procedurality, navigable worlds, and multimedia interactions—call for new literacies that exceed traditional reading and writing skills...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 216–230.
Published: 01 May 2014
... by elaborating on the framework of critical technical practice ( ctp ) first proposed by Philip Agre, suggesting how this notion might be connected productively with philosophical lineages of antipositivist epistemology, but as such traditions are reimagined and retooled for today’s informational contexts. Here...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
... aesthetics become inconceivable? This question is examined in light of the traditional divide in modernist studies between aesthetics and the political. donna v. jones is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Racial Discourses of Life...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 33–50.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Anna Kornbluh This essay argues that a specifically psychoanalytic theory of solidarity underscores its symbolic dimension. While other traditions conceive solidarity as primarily action or affect, psychoanalytic emphases on free association, punctuation, and construction opens onto a theory...
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