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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/event…

"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/ar…

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_DUP (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 hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/is…

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/is…

Mohamed Amer Meziane's "The States of the Earth" is one of the most incredible books I've read in a while. I was delighted to receive an invitation from @differences_DUP to engage critically with Amer. Really looking forward to it! versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

"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/ar…

"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/ar…

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash, published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1). Read it for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1), is 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

"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.

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/is…

now available online: a recording of "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique," a colloquium featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, and Lynne Huffer, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson — watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=PpEWtv…

Announcing the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Judith Butler's 'Giving an Account of Oneself' with a new preface by the author #NewRelease @Teagan_Bradway @differences_DUP ow.ly/QVJJ50Vrtqf

join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/event…

"It was difficult to write Giving an Account of Oneself, since I included very little autobiographical detail" — from our latest issue, read Judith Butler's "Giving an Account: When, Where, for Whom, and Why?" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

"If queer theory has struggled to think of narrative in these terms, it is perhaps because we have defined narrative as one line driven toward closure" — read @Teagan_Bradway's "Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences_dup (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway Read this article for free through March 31, 2025: buff.ly/3WzBM2D