..., as constituted by anti-trans and anti-black optics. Against this scene stands Time magazine naming 2014 as the “Trans Tipping Point.” I trace how positive representation, which is to say the methodology of assimilation, is offered as the primary, and perhaps exclusive, space of struggle. In contrast, through...

... whatever, even of the wildest kind.... such was my terror of the white circle on the wall, and of the moving slides.” Using Martineau's anecdote as a starting point, this essay considers the ways in which optical devices became an integral part of the “sensory structuring of experience” in the Victorian...

..., Australia. He is currently completing a manuscript on the supernaturalization of surplus authority in the Victorian home. Helen Groth is a senior lecturer at Macquarie University. She is currently completing a monograph titled “Optical Illusion and the Victorian Cultural Imagination.” She...

... reflection remains metaphysical, since it retains the optics of humanity’s “primary” relation to animality by presenting, as it were, its verso, where the hectic working and the desired mastering of this relation is suspended and given a break, a Shabbat. Dif- ferently put, humanity in The Open...

...) and the coeditor of Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics (1993). Her Democratic Contradictions and the Syn­ optic Illusion of Euripides Ion appeared in Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modem, edited by J. Ober and C. Hedrick (1996). Joseph farrell teaches...

... to the notion of an optical unconscious is entitled MickyMaus. Where the third, familiar version meanders through a refer­ ence to Freud s Psychopathology ofEveryday Life, the earlier versions (including the French) open with an epigrammatic thesis: The most important among the social functions of film...

... it to be conveyed. 15 It must be noted, however, that virtual embodiment of the Rheingoldian sort is an early to mid-twenty-first-century technology. It would require a global fiber-optic network in concert with massively parallel supercomputers capable of monitoring and controlling the numberless sensors...

... and which include an immense array of material inno- vations, social practices, and institutions—the communications networks of fiber-­optic cable, wireless broadcast and satellite distribution, com- puter hosts and servers, graphical interface designs, recording and play- back devices...

.... He does this by using the notion that the optical flows of a perceiver give that subject self-specific information about his or her movements, so that the interruption of such flows will make this information unavailable...

... that becomes an object of Benjaminian tactile appropriation. Walter Benjamin s reading ofthe tactile as a means to com­ plicate but not necessarily go beyond optical perception provides a key to the use value of a building as a tangible element in a cultural-guidebook construction of history.6 At a literal...

...- sistence of deplorable employment conditions. Predicaments of precarity tend to gain publicity in ways that imply helplessness in the face of abuse and exploitation, and this narrow optic is further constricted by the peripa- tetic, formulaic coverage typically allotted by mainstream news sources...

.... Cruz’s drama functions as an elegant and penetrating optic that may well be indispensable to the task at hand. Tseng 2001.11.19 12:53 Tseng 2001.11.19 12:53 6472 South...

... to delight his eye with their snaky colors. Throughout his works Hudson shows the pres­ ent race of men, whose optic nerves are frequently caught only by glaring headlines, flamboyant posters, 'and cinemato­ graphic views of life, the unguessed charm of the common­ place. He unlocks the significance...

.... This would, Carruthers and the Custodian agreed, take Occam undiscerningly and in particular ignore the needlessly. Whatever Occam himself meant, one modern instance illustrates an appropriate use of his Razor. Real flying saucers have been resolved into optical illusions including many effects of ice...

... effect of their nonlocatable, nonphysi- cal, purely optical presence—lies neither in their calligraphic markings nor in the surface they are traced on, but in the transition between them, in the split between background and foreground (whichever way around these two are conceived). And we might...

... on optics to prove that she must have been Voltaire s guide and collaborator in the composition of his Elements de la -philoso-phie de Newton, contrary to purely chronological considerations, which have raised doubt concerning Voltaire s own state­ ment that she was his guide. The average student...

... of their readers, even though disapproved by certain highbrow critics. As much can be said for the boy s stories of other days. Elijah Kellogg and Oliver Optic pictured the optimistic sides of American life and made their Socialist Realism and the American Success Novel 215 works readable. Even the much despised...

... and hard-edge paintings of artists like Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland. The large-scale repeti­ tion of these styles does not produce the confusing optical effects we see in op art, but is generally perceived as striking and provokes a pleasing visual reaction. Why larger scale repetitions should...

... of arguments about biopolitics, given refinements in cloning, the patenting of genes, as well as the application of new technologies of surveillance (the optical scanning of the human iris 6 to establish identity, for instance). But as Malcolm Bull points out in his recent...

... with a “soft emotion” that I recognize in myself and others—seen not only through an identitarian optic as feminists, queers, people of color, but also through a lens that registers affective particularity, relational sensuousness, and the intricacies of belonging as friends, lovers, and beyond...