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a journal of feminist cultural studies | https://differencesjournal.org
Quite honored to be part of such a line-up!
differences@differences.bsky.social · 2mo agodifferences 37.2 is out now! — featuring essays from D. N. Rodowick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Jonathan Basile, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Sarah Cavar, Willa Smart, and Adam J. Frank. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
My new essay—on prosopopoeia, late liberalism, nuclear colonialism and imperialism, and sexual difference—is out in the Sept. issue of @differences.bsky.social. With readings of Albert Serra's Pacifiction, Anohni's Hopelessness, and an ecodrama by Ontroerend Goed. A taste of the big-book-to-come.
Calamity as Defacement
Abstract. Prosopopoeia defines legal and discursive efforts to cognize, and to exempt ourselves from, extinction. The figure of the Anthropocene, for instance, fits a human mask onto the modulation of...
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Some very favorite essays in this issue!!
differences@differences.bsky.social · 2mo agodifferences 37.2 is out now! — featuring essays from D. N. Rodowick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Jonathan Basile, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Sarah Cavar, Willa Smart, and Adam J. Frank. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
differences 37.2 is out now! — featuring essays from D. N. Rodowick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Jonathan Basile, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Sarah Cavar, Willa Smart, and Adam J. Frank. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
David Hollingshead really leans in on New Materialism. Let us know what you think!
differences@differences.bsky.social · 2mo ago"What does it mean to call oneself a 'new materialist' in the year 2026?" — read David Hollingshead's "Securitizations of the Self: Deviant Matter after New Materialism" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/secu...
"What does it mean to call oneself a 'new materialist' in the year 2026?" — read David Hollingshead's "Securitizations of the Self: Deviant Matter after New Materialism" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/secu...
The Weekly Read is “Letters from Underground” by Rosalind C. Morris. The article appears in For Whom Do We Read, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (37:1), edited by Peter Szendy. Read this article for free through 8/20: buff.ly/xbs7Zwc
This special issue of @differences.bsky.social invites literary theorists and historians to engage with a question raised by this reader: For whom do we read? View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/FYRFI0L
differences 37.1 is out now — edited by Peter Szendy, "For Whom Do We Read?" features essays from Emily Apter, Leah Price, Thomas Schestag, Rosalind C. Morris, Emily Greenwood, Jesse McCarthy, Paul North, and Daniel Heller-Roazen: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/....
Behind Our Backs is out! "In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization." —Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago https://ow.ly/IJRh50YgW1o
"Digital networks, in fact, are largely walled. If the networked media space is often imagined as an open grid, then the wall is its containing surface" — read Jinying Li's "Toward a Genealogy of the Wall-Screen," freely available for the next two months: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Join us Friday, March 6 for History under Siege!
differences@differences.bsky.social · 9mo agojoin us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!
differences@differences.bsky.social · 9mo agojoin us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r
"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Volume 36 Issue 2-3 | differences | Duke University Press
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differences@differences.bsky.social · 11mo agodifferences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
I’m proud to be part of this issue
differences@differences.bsky.social · 11mo agodifferences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
If you’re ASAP-ing, join Claire & I & our assembled luminaries for the Lyric beyond Containment seminar on Friday! We’ll be sharing material from our forthcoming special issue of @differences.bsky.social, I’ll share a bit from Here Is a Figure, & there’ll be previews of some fab books in poetics!
"Laughter […] lingers in the racialized, sexualized, and gendered spaces of abjection that drive the subject to the edges of meaning" — from our latest issue, read Iván A. Ramos's "Breaking Down, Breaking Together" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
"Kim’s work does not allow us to inhabit the virtual spaces we see before us. Instead, her rendering of space and the various ghosts that haunt those spaces seem to take possession of our bodies" — read Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli's "Spectral Forensics" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social
To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Differences — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Editors of differences were interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!
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"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1), is now available! View the TOC and read "Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles" by Lee Edelman, freely available through 9/5: buff.ly/FhdR7Ft
New piece written with my most precious and treasured thinking partner, @samanthapinto.bsky.social. Thinking together about exhaustion, fatigue, and being feminist and bone tired.
Samantha Pinto@samanthapinto.bsky.social · last yr.We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
