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... built on the history of lip-read- ing, artifi cial vocal tracts, and artifi cial larynges. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries these fi elds demonstrated that speech had a materiality of its own, distinct from alphabets and print; fur- thermore, speech could be divided...

... in fact foreclosed liberatory avenues. We have come to “ fixing and stabilizing the identity of woman [and, too, Black, trans, queer] even more firmly than before ,” as Riki Wilchins writes in Read My Lips (1997). What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the engine of our politics followed Wilchins...

... hear these words in voice- over, Alice sits in her bedroom examining her refl ection in a foggy mirror. The frame of the mirror, doubling the frame of the screen, isolates her face in close-up. Moments earlier, Alice had applied red ink to the lips of her vulva in a close-up...

... voice were implied by the “récit des bords,” by the doubled scene where from one side to the other of a clear but impassable partition lips mime lips. “To love / And to silence mir- ror each other,” Hocquard writes in another Diptyque (pt, 75–77 ). Or again, it’s as though now...

...? (CP, 144) There are pop culture icons, "Marilyn Monroe. / Can one's lips be 'more' or 'less' sensual?" (147); moments of New York daily life, "Taxicabs whistling by (148)29; descriptions of paintings, finished and in process, "spasmodically obliterated with loaves...

... against and beyond white heteropatriachy and reproductive futurity.     Monda . Smooth and bald like a statue,        hairless but for light pubic fuzz,        like a breeze        where lips get caught        the wind the afternoon the heat and the cry        —saltwater I sipped between her...

... the audience is asked to cut the clothes from her body— leaving it open to them to decide how far to take this task. Another example in this respect, cited especially frequently in theater studies, is Marina Abramović’s performance Lips of Thomas (which she fi rst performed in 1975...

.... And with whomever. And as long as we can talk about the orgasms, theorize about them, turn them into verbal “mouth-objects,” syllables to chew and eject, sources of easeful labor for tongue and teeth and lips. sp: So you of course are not just a consumer of musical culture. You’ve actually produced...

... eyes overshadowed by a fragment of an un- ruffl ed forehead; and with the very fi rst word uttered Marlow’s body, extended at rest in the seat, would become very still, as though his spirit had winged its way back into the lapse of time and were speaking through his lips...

... . . . by that inspiration which is revealing the Almighty through the lips of the humble students of Nature.”21 In the throes of the Industrial Reed: Speed and Nineteenth-Century Stereoscopy 75 Revolution, stereoscopes offered the public a different kind of time card to punch. Waylaid...

..., it forces us to con- sider protofascism and fascism's fraught relationship with, and am- bivalent contributions to, the modernist project in various nations. For, if the term "fascist modernism" still, in the words of Jeffrey Schnapp, "produces a certain turbulence on the lips,"19 the turbu- lence...

... in that calm unearthly glow, the skill which has caught the waves of wandering sound, and fi xed them for ever on the lips and hands-these are indeed the master’s own” (TR, 92).18 This is clear- ly not a painting of sound, but a painting of the moment before sound, the solemn vigil...

..., spineless" thing that passes for reality in the social world. Takiguchi had written in 1931: "Reality — if my lips are not burned by the word, is it not rather a miracle The aim for some form of actuality — that brings with it a certain terror, a dan- ger — is shared by the surrealists and enters...

... Guermantes, and tell the same sort of stories. In the meantime, I stammered them out through my trembling lips and tried in vain to restore order to a mind that was carried away by a centrifugal force. And so it was with feverish impatience not to have to bear the weight of all this any longer on my own...

... something menacing and unhealthy (for me, certainly) in the face on the screen, I gave Davis’s skin the dead-white greenish cast of something crawling from under a rock, but I was held, just the same, by the tense intelligence of the forehead, the disaster of the lips: and when she moved, she moved just...

... part, a desire to learn her name. Eyes turned downward, chin cupped in hand, lips sealed, bangs curled under, she is the photograph’s introverted focal point: impenetrable, self- contained, with an almost sculptural presence that brings Rodin’s Thinker to mind. The ruff or collar of fur...

... hovering above, he finds himself “available in the flesh immediate . . . hands on.” 33 As he recounts his experience, Barney becomes increasingly emotional. I know this creature, this leader is telling me something . . . I can see it in his face . . . his lips aren’t moving . . . but he’s looking...

.... It is, like most undergrad programs around the country, a fairly conservative pro- gram, paying lip service to at least some coverage (one course = fi f- teen weeks) of the fi ve centuries of English literature before 1800. But—and this is what the mission statement doesn’t tell you— the commitment...

... castigates the title character for considering breaking a promise he has made. Hippolytus says, “My lips swore to but my heart did not.” Austin rejects that idea: there’d be no such thing as promising if we could all get out of our promises by saying, “I didn’t mean it.” It has to be that our word is our...

... of physiognomy.” 41 The remainder of the entry extols the merits of ʿilm-i firāsat for ascertaining the interiority of slaves—their good qualities and their bad ones—and explaining which physical qualities to seek in slaves suited for specific positions. (Sour, black-skinned slaves, with thick lips and flat...