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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Étienne Balibar The essay offers a series of reflections on the place of violence in politics and, at the same time, on the ways in which the relation between what might be understood as mutually exclusive categories (violence ceases where politics begins and vice versa) has been theorized...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Events: From Clarence Thomas to Monica Lewinsky.” Trans. James Swenson. differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13.2 ( 2002 ): 127 -58. Fassin, Éric, with Clarisse Fabre. “Violences sexuées, violences sexuelles.” Liberté, égalité, sexualités: actualité politique des questions...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., and Sacred Life in Benjamin's `Critique of Violence.' ” Political Theologies . Ed. Hent de Vries. New York: Fordham up, 2006 . 201 -19. ____. “Ethical Ambivalence.” The Turn to Ethics . Ed. M. Garber and R. L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 2000 . 15 -28. ____. Excitable Speech: A Politics...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and the nonhuman world; and from the contestation of gendered and racist violence of abstract formalism. Consequently, feminist aesthetics has to approach any artistic practice in nonindividualist, and even not entirely anthropocentric, terms. Only such a relational feminist approach to the impossibility...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 23–67.
Published: 01 July 1996
... 233 – 39 . Derrida Jacques . “ The Violence of the Letter .” Of Grammatology . Tr. Spivak Gayatri . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins UP , 1974 . 101 – 40 . Echols Alice . Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975 . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1989...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 79–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., in the First Reformed Church for the Reconsecration: a monotonous, seemingly endless hymn set on an infinite loop as a soundtrack to the literal violence, passion, death, rebirth, and ecstasy being enacted in the pastor’s living quarters next door unbeknownst to anyone in the church. Following Michael’s...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Samia Vasa In 2002, the state of Gujarat in India erupted in extreme anti-Muslim violence. The sexual violence against Muslim women and girls was particularly brutal. Survivors bore witness not only to the violence and destruction but also to the intense sexual enjoyment of the Hindu rapists...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 25–52.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Michael Dango A queer renovation of “rape” requires beginning not with actors, but with acts, which brings into view the central role of the state as a perpetrator of sexual violence. Radical feminists moved the “paradigmatic scene” of rape from the stranger in the alley to the acquaintance...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Terrance Wooten “Sex offender” is used in two senses. First, it is a legal category that defines individuals who have been convicted of specific sex crimes. These crimes range in degree and severity but predominantly consider themes of violence, predation, and propriety. In popular representation...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 122–160.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Erin A. Spampinato This essay identifies what the author terms “adjudicative reading,” a tendency in literary criticism to read novels depicting sexual violence as if in a court of law. Adjudicative reading tracks characters’ motivations and the physical outcomes of their actions as if novels can...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 23–42.
Published: 01 November 2015
... offers an alternative point of view. Benjamin’s focus on gesture offers concrete ways of reconceptualizing both identification and disidentification. Read together with his critique of legal violence, one can also see how the gesture displays and arrests the destructive power of the state. Benjamin thus...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Lila Abu-Lughod The “honor crime” poses perhaps more starkly than any other contemporary cultural-legal category the dilemmas of feminist scholarship and rights activism in a transnational world. Marked as a culturally specific form of violence and given a special and stigmatizing association...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
Published: 01 May 2011
... versus modernity renders certain important facts illegible, underemphasizing or ignoring the structures of power within which violence against women occurs. This simple story positions culture and feminism as opponents in a zero-sum game and presumes that women will be emancipated when they have overcome...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 102–116.
Published: 01 May 2009
... violence, which is where Klein takes that critique fifteen years later. What starts as a question for Freud about how it is that war legitimizes a murderous representation of the other becomes, in Klein, a question about the morality of mourning. In wartime, this morality becomes political, as Klein's...
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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 (2011) 22 (2-3): 211–234.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of nonmeaning from which meaning is drawn, by contrast, near inaudibility is linked to a separate set of conceptual and aesthetic terms: formal gradations of pressure, tension, intensity, and force. Finally, each regime also contains within itself a theory of violence. For silence, the centrality...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 63–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Poulomi Saha The years between 1930 and 1933 saw a dramatic rise in anticolonial violence in Bengal. Young women who participated in this violence, caught between competing masculinist discourses of colonial authorities and nationalist communities that deemed them either dupes or martyrs...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Ramsey McGlazer This essay studies figures of arrest and mobility, imprisonment and release, and “rigor and extravagance” in Leo Bersani’s writings. Focusing on The Forms of Violence , a study of late Assyrian sculpture coauthored with Ulysse Dutoit and first published in 1985, the essay at once...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Smear the queer engenders a calculus of violence, as the game represents a mode of policing, and the film highlights the ways race, gender, and sexuality are marshaled to regulate queer Black people’s embodied expression. Focusing on those who touch protagonist Chiron’s life, the author considers smear...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 137–154.
Published: 01 December 2018
... ignores plants’ violent impotentiality and thus reduces plant life to mere passive, hospitable nature. To avoid this reduction (a violence of theory), this essay argues that an “auto-reject” position might be a better approach for a more veritable “critical plant studies.” © 2018 by Brown University...