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Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects

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JAMES A. FUJII
differences (1999) 11 (2): 106–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-106
Published: 01 September 1999
... anthology of Maeda Ai's essays and a manuscript examining Japanese urban rail, metropolitan life, and the modern subject. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969 . Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity . New...
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“Urban Women Cooperators,” “Progress,” and “African Feminism” in Zimbabwe

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Christine Sylvester
differences (1991) 3 (1): 39–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3-1-39
Published: 01 April 1991
... , forthcoming. Sylvester Christine . “ Zimbabwe's 1985 Elections: A Search for National Mythology .” Journal of Modern African Studies 2 4 . 2 ( 1986 ): 229 - 56 . Weinrich Elaine . Women and Racial Discrimination in Rhodesia . Paris : UNESCO , 1979 . "Urban WOlllen Cooperators...
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Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City: Psychopathologies of Modern Urbanism

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Anthony Vidler
differences (1993) 5 (3): 31–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-31
Published: 01 November 1993
... Wilhelm . Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style. Trans. Bullock Michael . New York : International UP , 1980 . ANTHONY VIDLER Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City: Psychopathologies of Modern Urbanism re following essay is a part of a larger work...
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“Where' Your People From, Girl?”: Belonging to Race, Gender, and Place Beneath Clouds

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Rosalyn Diprose
differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2008-009
Published: 01 December 2008
...Rosalyn Diprose This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures...
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Seductions of the “Honor Crime”

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Lila Abu-Lughod
differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218238
Published: 01 May 2011
... enabled it to emerge as a robust category implicated in projects that include the policing and exclusions of immigrants; nation-states' disciplinary penetration of rural and urban subaltern communities; dominance by specific national, ethnic, or class groups; manipulation of liberal values in the service...
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Manila's New Metropolitan Form

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Neferti Xina M. Tadiar
differences (1993) 5 (3): 154–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-154
Published: 01 November 1993
... and Space . New York : Princeton Architectural Press , 1992 . Vol. 1 of Princeton Papers on Architecture. 1 vol. 1992 . Cruz Larry J . “ Dream House .” Metro July 1992 . Daniele Daniela . “ Mapless Cities: Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in Surrealist and Postmodern...
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Placing Rosemary's Baby

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Sharon Marcus
differences (1993) 5 (3): 121–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-121
Published: 01 November 1993
... . The Movie Lover's Guide to New York . New York : Harper , 1988 . Allen Anita L. Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society . Totowa, N.J. : Rowman , 1988 . Bird Caroline . “ The Single Girls of the City: Why They Don't Want to Be Wives .” The Urban Reader . Ed. Cahill...
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“Errances” and Memories in Marguerite Duras's Colonial Cities

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Panivong Norindr
differences (1993) 5 (3): 52–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-52
Published: 01 November 1993
... Spaces .” Diacritics. 16 . 1 ( 1986 ): 22 - 27 . Franchini Philippe , ed. Saigon: 1924-1945. Paris : Autrement , 1992 . Friedman J . “ The Spatial Organization of Power in the Development of Urban Systems .” Comparative Urban Research I ( 1972 ): 5 - 42 . Gauthier...
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Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester

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Mary Poovey
differences (1993) 5 (3): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-1
Published: 01 November 1993
... . “ The Image of Objectivity .” Representations 40 ( 1992 ): 81 - 128 . Davison Graeme . “ The City as a Natural System: Theories of Urban Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain .” Fraser and Sutcliffe 349 - 70 . Dyos H. J. and Wolff Michael . The Victorian City: Images...
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The Utopia of Bankruptcy

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Raphaëlle Guidée
differences (2020) 31 (3): 76–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-8744511
Published: 01 December 2020
... ability to profit from crisis. It has inspired countless documentaries, novels, movies, memoirs, essays, and articles about the lost ideal of Fordism and the utopian promise of urban farms. 2 Bankruptcy was a metaphor for its economic meltdown before it became a grim legal reality for a municipality...
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The Hotel Kracauer

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MARC KATZ
differences (1999) 11 (2): 134–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-134
Published: 01 September 1999
... theoretical treatise on urban mass culture. Lobbies subsequently turn up as a consistent topos in his Berlin feuilletons for the Frankfurter Zeitung of the 20s and early 30s, including (among others) “Parisian Hotel,” “In a Luxury Hotel...
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The City, the Everyday, and Boredom: The Case of Sherlock Holmes

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Laurie Langbauer
differences (1993) 5 (3): 80–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-80
Published: 01 November 1993
... in the Era of High Capitalism . Trans. Zohn Harry . London : New Left , 1973 . Benjamin Walter . “ One-Way Street [Selection] .” Demetz 61 - 94 . Bernstein Carol L. “ Nineteenth-Century Urban Sketches: Thresholds of Fiction .” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism . 3...
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Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Pontine Marshes

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Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
differences (2016) 27 (1): 94–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3522769
Published: 01 May 2016
... Andrew . New York : Penguin , 1998 . Burdett Charles . “ Italian Fascism and Utopia. ” History of the Human Sciences 16 . 1 ( 2003 ): 93 – 108 . Caprotti Federico . “ Destructive Creation: Fascist Urban Planning, Architecture, and New Towns. ” Journal of Historical Geography...
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Sounds from the South

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Iain Chambers
differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 300–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1428933
Published: 01 December 2011
..., where refined poetry and classical Arab music compo- sition became a mass mode accepted as both poetry and music. A further example would be the Arab urban tradition of Tunisia represented by the ma’luf and its claims to be descended...
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Index, Volume 5, 1993

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differences (1993) 5 (3): 205–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-205
Published: 01 November 1993
... . “ Manila's New Metropolitan Form .” 5 . 3 : 154 - 78 . Vidler Anthony . “ Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City: Psychopathologies of Modern Urbanism .” 5 . 3 : 31 - 51 . Index, Volume 5, 1993. Brown, Wendy. "Jim Miller's Passions. A Review." 5.2: 140-48. Camhi, Leslie. "Stealing Femininity...
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The Wolf in the Dog: Animal Fables and State Formation

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R. HOWARD BLOCH
differences (2004) 15 (1): 69–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-15-1-69
Published: 01 May 2004
... plays a special role in the creation of urban space as well as state values and institutions, and nowhere more so than in the subgenre of tales involving changing places. I am thinking of those that focus upon the relationship...
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Statistical Panic

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KATHLEEN WOODWARD
differences (1999) 11 (2): 177–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-177
Published: 01 September 1999
... and time were envisioned as a forum in which to elaborate a series of shocks, in particular the shock of the new theorized by Walter Benjamin and associated with turn-of-the-century urban culture and the technology that was so charac...
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Index: Volume 3, 1991

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differences (1991) 3 (3): 176–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3-3-176
Published: 01 November 1991
..., “Comment.” 3 . 3 : 139 - 70 . Sylvester Christine . “ ‘Urban Women Cooperators,’ ‘Progress,’ and ‘African Feminism’ in Zimbabwe .” 3 . 1 : 39 - 62 . Terry Jennifer . “ Theorizing Deviant Historiography .” 3 . 2 : 55 - 74 . Zerilli Linda M. G. “ Rememoration or War? French...
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Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity

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Mary Ann Doane
differences (1993) 5 (2): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-2-1
Published: 01 July 1993
... and Mental Life," that "the psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification oj nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli" (409-10). Modernity is fundamentally an urban phenomenon - hence the relentless...
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Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance

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Geraldine Heng
differences (1998) 10 (1): 98–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-10-1-98
Published: 01 April 1998
... . Morrison Toni . Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard UP , 1992 . Munro Dana Carleton . “ A Crusader .” Speculum 7 ( 1932 ): 321 – 35 . Munro Dana Carleton . “ The Speech of Pope Urban II at Clermont, 1095 .” The American...
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