... in the 1970s but is also judged to typify that period by virtue of her (in)famous conceptualization of women as a class. This essay undertakes a close reading of Delphy's writings on gender together with her earlier work on women as social class to elaborate what I term her constructivist materialism...

...” and New Frontiers of Capital  153 Disch, Lisa, Christine Delphy’s Constructivist Materialism  827 Disch, Lisa, Introduction  697 Eilat, Galit, Where Do You Draw the Line?  680 Flisfeder, Matthew, The Entrepreneurial Subject and Objectivization of the Self in Social Media 553 Fraser, Nancy...

...Paul Boghossian 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Paul Boghossian Constructivist and Relativist Conceptions of Knowledge in Contemporary (Anti-)Epistemology: A Reply to Barbara Herrnstein...

... to be contradictory positions. For if one endorses a constructivist understanding of ‘‘human involvement in the world’’ as constitutive, then one cannot consistently retain the ‘‘episte- mic deference’’ to a presumptively autonomous reality...

... Quarterly 104:3, Summer 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. 562 Don Robotham 3 nations or identities. In combating these essentialist notions of identity, cosmopolitanism puts forward an equally abstract theory: the constructivist...

... with a parallel disqualification of individualism. Futurists boasts, functionalists and constructivists fanaticism for standardized solu­ tions, abstractionists geometric rigor, and the perfecting of an ob­ jective prose by authors like Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Sinclair Lewis equally exalted plain, simple...

..., a medium is a difference that makes 12 a difference. This constructivist thesis certainly has the advantage that it shores up the ‘‘ontological fuzziness’’ of mediated access to the world, and it comprehends the constitutive instability and variablity of media presen- tations as a function...

... rightly sug­ gests that we see the metaphysics of a mathematician as yet another heterogeneous element of the culture that scientists operate in and on, along with the social, the material, the political, and so on (456). Pickering gives an analysis of why Hamilton s metaphysics changed which involves...

... of “theory,” even as it raises 504  Jonathan Goldberg the question of history beyond its instantiation in projects in the history of sexuality. But as my glance at some ways of construing the “constructivist” side of Foucault also might have suggested, another question raised by queer...

... and the editor. The main title, From Furma­ nov to Sholokhov, is represented vertically, in large capital letters, within a green frame. The vertical and horizontal lines, circles, and rings evoking a cosmic landscape recall some distant constructivist or suprematist patterns (Figure 1). The effect...

... collective story would have to be filled with greatness in the darkly amoral, Alexander-the-Great sense of greatness, a sense from which approval is often or mainly missing. That is, it would have to build using chaotic and even nihilistic materials that are determined by another sort of difference...

..., lan- guage, affect, and imagination, but like the original OWS camp, they also extend to the construction of material life-support systems of care, love, and mutual aid for individuals, families, and communities struggling to survive under neoliberalism. Indeed, with the exception of a coterie...

... and enlightenment. The kiosk designed by archi­ tect Boris Gladkov and sculptor Vera Mukhina for the newspapers Izvestiia and Krasnaia niva was spun from the forms and materials of modern industry (Figure 2). Exhibition galleries were decorated with murals executed by some of the brightest stars of the Soviet avant...

... . “ ‘Cognitive Capitalism’ and the Rat-Race: How Capital Measures Immaterial Labour in British Universities .” Historical Materialism 17 , no. 3 : 3 – 30 . de Goede Marieke . 2012 . Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...

... grounds. They lack empirical backing. They multiply entities unnecessarily (for example, creating a narrator who is then absorbed back into the film). They privilege camera work (and at a pinch, editing) over other film techniques, although all materials of cinema function narrationally not only...

... before words, mother before father). Like other constructivist system-makers, Lacan built as an idealist, keeping the parts as clean and precise as possible. Hence his refusal to consider that language comes from the mother, for that would put the Sym­ bolic in the Imaginary and question the distinctness...

... bringing round their letters and paychecks. Call this the baboon experiment.7 An experiment where, as in a Paul Auster novel, the materials of sociality are progressively with­ drawn until the person is sleeping rough in Central Park.8 Under such a regimen of deprivation, would Andrew still be an agent...

.... Culturalization was one way of translating ideology into the everyday; it was a kind of Stalinist civilizing process that taught Marxist-Leninist ideology together with table manners, mixing Stalin with Pushkin. Material possessions, crepe-de-chine dresses, old-fashioned dinnerware, and household decorations...

... discourse of kinds of persons. Meanwhile in the discourse of Christianity, the subtle constructivist argument that sexual aim is not, at least for many people, a hard-wired biologi­ cal given but rather a social fact deeply embedded in the cultural and linguistic forms of many, many decades is being...

... markets and to the claim that, because of globalization, ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to orthodox neoliberalism’’ (7). She adds that GEAR sits uneasily astride the emancipatory promises of the liberation struggle, as well as the material hopes, aspirations, and rights of the large...