differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from June 1998

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from June 1998

The "true lie" of the nation: Fanon and feminism.(author Frantz Fanon)
June 22, 1998... In recent years, Frantz Fanon's writings on Algerian nationalism have been subjected to a number of feminist critiques, most of them focusing on the essay "Algeria Unveiled" (included in A Dying Colonialism), which is Fanon's most extensive...

Discourses of "forced sterilization" in Puerto Rico: the problem with the speaking subaltern.
June 22, 1998... Despite the interventions of significant anticolonialist thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Trinh Minh-ha, most of the routine business of feminism and gender studies goes on without asking how conceptions of nation and the "Third...

The academies and the unity of knowledge: the disciplining of the disciplines.
June 22, 1998... Introduction: The Academy and the World Map of Knowledge In the Discours preliminaire of the great eighteenth-century Encyclopedie, the French mathematician and philosophe Jean d'Alembert declared all classifications of knowledge to...

Getting real: technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality.
June 22, 1998... [T]he body is . . . directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs. . . power is not...

Antoni's difference.(contemporary artist Janine Antonine)
June 22, 1998... No one could miss Janine Antoni's Gnaw at the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Two six-hundred pound cubes of lard and chocolate bearing the distinct marks of the artist's teeth stood on their marble pedestals as if parading Minimalism undone by a fit...