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{"title":"Alladine and Ariadne: The Place of Woman in Badiouan Ontology","authors":"Nora Fulton","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The figure of Woman recurs in Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology. Not only does he cast the indiscernible element of set theoretical forcing as (♀) in Being and Event, but he also analogizes the depiction of femininity within the opera Ariadne and Bluebeard with his theory of appearance in Logics of Worlds. There the rebellious Ariadne’s matrix of relationships with Bluebeard’s willingly-imprisoned wives constitutes an “absolutely heterogenous feminine ground” exterior to the “new feminine world” that her eventual escape opens up. How can the ground of appearance be absolutely heterogenous yet still feminine, recognizably the world of Woman? Badiou uses category theory to argue that a being’s appearance is only possible between a minimum—Alladine, who stays—and a maximum—Ariadne, who leaves. This paper takes up his theories of change and appearance as a vital, if problematic, avenue for thinking gender and sex transition as a properly ontological event.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"45 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43032191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sapphic Sociability","authors":"Julia Ng","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On the rare occasion Sappho makes an appearance in critical theory, she is mobilized as a foil for thinking about theory's need to imagine the effacement of its own material conditions. This essay argues that from Heidegger’s pre-discursive disclosure of truth to Nancy’s sexuated ontology and Kittler’s hypothesis about the birth of the phonetic alphabet, Sappho is reduced to the trope of the maternal-yet-jealous-lover and transfigured into a doubly self-signifying absence wherein hetero-adjacency goes hand in hand with a supposed Europe-adjacency. Revisiting a philological uncertainty in Poem 1, I show instead that rather than ruled by her passions, Sappho is artfully in control of the many-minded inhabitations of her personae and, as such, mounts a challenge to the way the public sphere has been understood since at least Kant. Contrasting Sappho’s constructions of synaesthetic space and recursive time with Carazan’s dream, the short story that, for Kant, illustrates the “terrifyingly sublime” feeling prompting sociability among the unsociable, I argue that Sappho combines love and strategy to bring friend and foe together in an enchanted state that, as a spectre of her Aeolic dialect in Poem 31 illustrates, advances a politics of non-recognition.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"25 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44425687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grammars of Addressing: On Memory and History in Cathy Caruth’s Work","authors":"María del Rosario Acosta López","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Writing about Cathy Caruth’s work allows me to write about my current project on “grammars of listening,” which has not only developed in conversation with her work but has also become a powerful way for me to address, among other things, the question that gathers together this special issue on Women in Theory—a question closely related to issues of epistemic injustice and silencing (Kristie Dotson), of coloniality and the extent to which its effects are still operative today (María Lugones), and to the erasures and practices of un-knowing (Mariana Ortega) that have been deployed against the possibility of embodying what it means to be a “woman”—and more specifically a “woman of color”—in philosophy.None of these questions can be truly addressed without first radically questioning the frameworks of meaning that determine in advance what does and does not deserve to become audible. A subversion and a decolonization of the regime of audibility—one that forces us to listen to what is otherwise constantly rendered unheard and unheard-of—is the only way to begin seriously taking up the question of what it would mean to embody, from a theoretical perspective, the category—historically imposed, philosophically problematized, and in urgent need of decolonization—of “woman.”","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"147 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47488555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carrying, Containment, Supply","authors":"A. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay approaches the question of Women in Theory by considering the infrastructural work of writing (including citational practices and uses of metaphor) and how one might write about infrastructure and undervalued functions such as carrying and containing. Zoë Sofia’s essay “Container Technologies” (2000) is a central reference point: at issue is also the gendering of metaphors and how they bear or carry certain figurations of the feminine.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"109 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47920768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Generation","authors":"Kate Jenckes","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines some of the multiple resonances of the word generation, with an emphasis on the relationship between intellectual and aesthetic production and the figure of maternity. Beginning with Jacques Derrida’s critique of generation as an origin that grounds self-presence, which he associates with forms of violence from matricide to genocide, it considers the possibility of a ventriloquial mode of generation, through which others—including the differential flow of survival—speak, and which we are compelled to bear. Claudia Rankine’s Plot, a poetic exploration of the relationship between aesthetic production and pregnancy, is read as an exemplary instance of such ventriloquial survival.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"93 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discrepancy between disability and reported well-being after traumatic brain injury.","authors":"Isabel Rosalie Arianne Retel Helmrich, David van Klaveren, Nada Andelic, Hester Lingsma, Andrew Maas, David Menon, Suzanne Polinder, Cecilie Røe, Ewout W Steyerberg, Ernest Van Veen, Lindsay Wilson","doi":"10.1136/jnnp-2021-326615","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jnnp-2021-326615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), the clinical focus is often on disability. However, patients' perceptions of well-being can be discordant with their disability level, referred to as the 'disability paradox'. We aimed to examine the relationship between disability and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following TBI, while taking variation in personal, injury-related and environment factors into account.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used data from the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury study. Disability was assessed 6 months post-injury by the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE). HRQoL was assessed by the SF-12v2 physical and mental component summary scores and the Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury overall scale. We examined mean total and domain HRQoL scores by GOSE. We quantified variance in HRQoL explained by GOSE, personal, injury-related and environment factors with multivariable regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Six-month outcome assessments were completed in 2075 patients, of whom 78% had mild TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale 13-15). Patients with severe disability had higher HRQoL than expected on the basis of GOSE alone, particularly after mild TBI. Up to 50% of patients with severe disability reported HRQoL scores within the normative range. GOSE, personal, injury-related and environment factors explained a limited amount of variance in HRQoL (up to 29%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Contrary to the idea that discrepancies are unusual, many patients with poor functional outcomes reported well-being that was at or above the boundary considered satisfactory for the normative sample. These findings challenge the idea that satisfactory HRQoL in patients with disability should be described as 'paradoxical' and question common views of what constitutes 'unfavourable' outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279746/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89157288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Advancing are Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles? A Comprehensive Review of the Literature.","authors":"Sahar Porrang, Soodabeh Davaran, Nader Rahemi, Somaiyeh Allahyari, Ebrahim Mostafavi","doi":"10.2147/IJN.S353349","DOIUrl":"10.2147/IJN.S353349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The application of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) is ubiquitous in various sciences. MSNs possess unique features, including the diversity in manufacturing by different synthesis methods and from different sources, structure controllability, pore design capabilities, pore size tunability, nanoparticle size distribution adjustment, and the ability to create diverse functional groups on their surface. These characteristics have led to various types of MSNs as a unique system for drug delivery. In this review, first, the synthesis of MSNs by different methods via using different sources were studied. Then, the parameters affecting their physicochemical properties and functionalization have been discussed. Finally, the last decade's novel strategies, including surface functionalization, drug delivery, and cancer treatment, based on the MSNs in drug delivery and cancer therapy have been addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"18 1","pages":"1803-1827"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9043011/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91154279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Turn to the Many: Ai Weiwei","authors":"Chang Tan, Ai Weiwei","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:“Crowdsourced,” frequently recycled, made in large quantity, and easily transmittable across analog and digital borders, Ai’s art and activism mark the turn(s) of global contemporary art toward the remixing, the participatory, the media-savvy, and the socially engaged—turns that were gathering strength for more than a century but began to coalesce into powerful discourses in the 1990s.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"150 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45189904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Turning the Tables: Derrida, China, and the Asia Turn","authors":"C. Rojas","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After a discussion of how Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Specters of Marx illustrate two inverse ways in which the figure of China has been marginalized within Western critical theory, this essay considers a contemporary counter-discourse developed by Asia-based theorists who use an approach dubbed “China/Asia as method” to critique the universalizing assumptions found in Western theory. Beginning with Takeuchi Yoshimi’s 1960 article “Asia as Method,” I suggest that this approach effectively turns the tables not only on a Eurocentric intellectual tradition itself, but also on concomitant attempts to use China/Asia as a space of radical alterity from which to critique the presumptive universality of Eurocentric discourses. I consider two recent analyses that draw (either explicitly or implicitly) on the “China/Asia as method” approach and apply it to contemporary debates over LGBTQ rights in Sinophone East Asia. Finally, I use a set of spectral resonances in the two Asian LGBTQ case studies to return to Derrida’s allusions to China and “table-turning” séances, but with a twist.","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"105 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42026749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yet Another One. . .","authors":"Andrea Bachner","doi":"10.1353/dia.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What movement is a “turn”? After all, as some of the theoretical work discussed in The Turn I and The Turn II shows, turning itself is multiple. Is a turn eventfully singular or recurring? Does it mark a rupture or a return, a turn away or a turn toward? The turn comes in a multiplicity of different figures—revolutionary upheaval, Möbian tautology, fold and unfolding. What does this mean for thinking the different modalities of the turn, not only the shape it takes or the movement it traces, but also its scale, (in)frequency, and number? Is the “turn” we envision one or many? Micro or macro? And what do we make of the paradox that much of our theoretical desires dream of the molar, eventful, cutting-edge, revolutionary, innovative energy of the “turn” when we invoke theoretical innovation while much of our thought is otherwise celebratory of minor figures, of microfolds, multiply pleated surfaces, hosts of warps and whorls, or dynamic constellations of gyrations and turnings?","PeriodicalId":46840,"journal":{"name":"DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":"11 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44748402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}