Preface Acknowledgements Part 1: 1. Bodies that Matter 2. The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary 3. Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex 4. Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion Part 2: 5. 'Dangerous Crossing': Willa Cather's Masculine Names 6. Queering, Passing: Nella Larsen Rewrites Psychoanalysis 7. Arguing with the Real 8. Critically Queer. Notes. Index

Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes whether states view each other as enemies, rivals or friends as a fundamental determinant. Wendt characterises these roles as 'cultures of anarchy', described as Hobbesian, Lockean and Kantian respectively. These cultures are shared ideas which help shape state interests and capabilities, and generate tendencies in the international system. The book describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.

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Social Theory of International Politics

International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (ITDL), January 2005

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Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

This article reviews a diverse set of proposals for dual processing in higher cognition within largely disconnected literatures in cognitive and social psychology. All these theories have in common the distinction between cognitive processes that are fast, automatic, and unconscious and those that are slow, deliberative, and conscious. A number of authors have recently suggested that there may be two architecturally (and evolutionarily) distinct cognitive systems underlying these dual-process accounts. However, it emerges that (a) there are multiple kinds of implicit processes described by different theorists and (b) not all of the proposed attributes of the two kinds of processing can be sensibly mapped on to two systems as currently conceived. It is suggested that while some dual-process theories are concerned with parallel competing processes involving explicit and implicit knowledge systems, others are concerned with the influence of preconscious processes that contextualize and shape deliberative reasoning and decision-making.

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Dual-Processing Accounts of Reasoning, Judgment, and Social Cognition

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries. The book introduces the three approaches in a clear and easily comprehensible manner, explaining the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach as well as the methodological guidelines and tools they provide for empirical discourse analysis. The authors also demonstrate the possibilities for combining different discourse analytical and non-discourse analytical approaches in empirical study. Finally, they contextualize discourse analysis within the social constructionist debate about critical social research, rejecting the view that a critical stance is incompatible with social constructionist premises and arguing that critique must be an inherent part of social research.

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Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

I. Approaching Abjection2. Something to Be Scared Of3. From Filth to Defilement4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination5... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi6. C line: Neither Actor nor Martyr7. Suffering and Horror8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite9. "Ours to Jew or Die"10. In the Beginning and Without End...11. Powers of Horror

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Translator's PrefaceIntroduction, by Leon S. RoudiezProlegomenonPart 1. The Semiotic and the symbolic1. The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation2. The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives3. Husserl's Hyletic Meaning: A Natural Thesis4. Hjelmslev's Presupposed Meaning5. The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary6. The Mirror and Castration Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier7. Frege's Notion of Signification: Enunciation and Denotation8. Breaching the Thetic: Mimesis9. The Unstable Symbolic. Substitutions in the Symbolic: Fetishism10. The Signifying Process11. Poetry That is Not a Form of Murder12. Genotext and Phenotext13. Four Signifying PracticesPart 2. Negativity: Rejection1. The Fourth "Term" of the Dialectic2. Independent and Subjugated "Force" in Hegel3. Negativity as Transversal to Thetic Judgment4. "Kinesis," "Cura," "Desire"5. Humanitarian Desire6. Non-Contradiction Neutral Peace7. Freud's Notion of Expulsion RejectionPart 3. Heterogeneity1. The Dichotomy and Heteronomy of Drives2. Facilitation, Stasis, and the Thetic Moment3. The Homological Economy of the Representamen4. Through the Principle of Language5. Skepticism and Nihilism in Hegel and in the TextPart 4. Practice1. Experience Is Not Practice2. The Atomistic Subject of Practice in Marxism3. Calling Back Rupture within Practice - Experience-in-Practice4. The Text as Practice, Distinct from Transference Discourse5. The Second Overturning of the Dialectic after Political Economy, Aesthetics6. Madoror and Poems, Laughter as Practice7. The Expenditure of a Logical Conclusion: IgiturNotesIndex

Revolution in poetic language

Strangers to Ourselves.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Leon S. Roudiez1. The Ethics of Linguistics2. The Bounded Text3. Word, Dialogue, and Novel4. How Does One Speak to Literature?5. From One Identity to an Other6. The Father, Love, and Banishment7. The Novel as Polylogue8. Giotto's Joy9. Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini10. Place NamesIndex

Julia Kristeva

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Revolution in poetic language

Strangers to Ourselves.

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art