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... that performatively presence the actresses and singers who animate them, in other words morally charged acts for which such animators are held accountable. Drawing on linguistic anthropology and film theory, this article explores vision-image and sound-image as distinct modes of performative presence, noting...

..., Perspective, Depth of Field .” Film Reader 2 ( 1977 ): 128 - 40 . Crary Jonathan . Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge : MIT P , 1990 . Deleuze Gilles . Bergsonism . Trans. Tomlinson Hugh and Habberjam Barbara...

... working on Bodily Fantasies: Medical Visions/Medical Performances (Minnesota University Press, forthcoming, 2006). Adler, Kathleen, and Marcia Pointon, eds. The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual Culture since the Renaissance . Cambridge: Cambridge up, 1993 . Adorno, Theodor. Prisms...

...Margarethe von Trotta In this memoir of the origins and making of her film Hannah Arendt , Margarethe von Trotta places it in the context of her two earlier film biographies of prominent women: Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Vision (original title: Vision—Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen , 2009...

... political visions and arrangements. For constructive feedback on earlier drafts, many thanks to the participants in the 2011-12 Pembroke Center seminar on consent at Brown University, to the participants in the 2012 Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Working Group at Yale University...

...Catherine Malabou This essay confronts Peter Singer’s vision of the gift with Jacques Derrida’s by examining the claims of “effective altruism,” a movement of which Singer is the most prominent representative. While Derrida argues that giving for the sake of giving is impossible to the extent...

... they conjure idiosyncratic visions of erotic freedom not reliant on negation. The trajectory of Elektra’s relationship with Dick Ford highlights the complexities and potential consequences of articulating an idiosyncratic sense of self in the context of black female sexuality. That is, Elektra’s insistence...

... an almost complete reorientation of literary studies as a field—a virtual death of the vision described by Spivak. The advent of DH is quite unlike the ones accompanying the introduction of computers into other disciplines, whose basic precepts have remained largely intact in the face of digitization. DH’s...

... and looks to a different future. In so doing, the essay considers how archival reference emerges through altered vision and different technologies. Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2010 ranjana khanna is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies...

... direct as men of learning to the reading public. If left free, this address, argues Kant, enables us to become mündig (mature) or, in other words, to learn to think and act for ourselves. Kant’s vision invokes the mouth ( Mund ) along with other bodily media of address (reading, writing). Presenting...

... without centralized control or the provision of a global model.” Such a vision constructs a benign and beneficent swarm that, although it lacks differentiation and specificity, accomplishes democracy without sovereignty. Achille Mbembe points out, nonetheless, that the swarm can have a more sinister...

... cinematic and theatrical? The tension between the somatic side of singing and the beautification of the singing, instrumental, working body through dancing brings a gendered vision to the fore that links the female body strictly with codes of beauty. A reading of Madonna’s video “Take a Bow” allows...

... : Palgrave , 2005 . 99 – 118 . Jay Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought . Berkeley : U of California P , 1993 . LaCapra Dominick . History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2009 . Lispector...

... . By Paul de Man. xv –xxx. Hains, Maryellen. “Beauty and the Beast: 20thCentury Romance?” Merveilles & Contes . Special Issue on “Beauty and the Beast.” 3.1 (May 1989 ): 75 –83. Hearne, Betsy. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989 . Huet...

... . Haraway Donna . “ A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s .” Nicholson 190 - 233 . Haraway Donna . Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science . New York : Routledge , 1989 . Haraway Donna . “ Situated...

... the challenge of "Apostrophe, Animation, Abortion" to read Jonson's "On my first Sonne" as a male-authored poem about poetic progeny.2 I will juxtapose this poem first to Jonson's highly pertinent epigram "To Fine Lady Would-bee" and second to two curiously similar and suggestive "visions" said to have been...

... and Literature . Ed. Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy. Cambridge:Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1987 . 95 –114. Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought . Berkeley: U of California P, 1993 . ———. “Photo-unrealism: The Contribution of the Camera to the Crisis...

.... Bynum and Roy Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge up, 1985 . 385 -412. ____. Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries . New York: Harvester, 1989 . Keller, Eve. “The Rhetoric of Seventeenth-Century Embryology and the Construction of Early...

... bears no inherent relation to the universalizing, colonizing, ahistorical, or ethnocentric tendencies against which it is now defending itself. The Greek theoria from which our term descends promises only the vision or perspective achieved by corporeal, cognitive, or spiritual travelling. Insofar...

.... My interest is in how and why the book’s “queer pairing” (6) of the experiences of formerly enslaved black people in the period after the Civil War and of formerly criminalized gay men and lesbians after marriage equality is nested in a “logical space” (to use Richard Rorty’s term, 13) whose vision...