Intimacy: A special issue

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-286

  Berlant, Lauren ^a  

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EID: 0001114536     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448875     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass., 1989)
2. See Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere, trans. Peter Labanyl, Jamie Daniel, and Assenka Oksiloff (Minneapolis, 1993)
3. See also Miriam Hansen, forward to Negt and Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience, pp. ix-xli and Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Cambridge, Mass., 1991).
4. For a powerful meditation on the contradiction between the unconscious drive toward omnipotence and the project of democracy, see Joel Whitebook, Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)
5. Foucault's work on recognizing the multiplicity of relations engendered at every moment by sexuality has been central to this project. See, for example, Michel Foucault, "Friendship as a Way of Life" and "Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity," in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York, 1997), pp. 135-40, 163-73
6. Many of these thoughts about the circulation of intimacy through stories and encounters that have impact emerged in conversations with Katie Stewart. See Kathleen Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America (Princeton, NJ., 1996)
7. On the transformational possibilities of the something that holds a place open for unforeseen changes, see Lauren Berlant, "'68, or Something," Critical Inquiry 21 (Fall 1994): 124-55
8. For more on some official and popular contexts of contemporary U.S. intimacy politics, see Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham, N.C., 1997) and "Feminism and the Institutions of Intimacy," in The Politics of Research, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and George Levine (New Brunswick, NJ., 1997), pp. 143-61
9. See especially Rose, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Cambridge, Mass., 1991) and States of Fantasy (New York, 1996)
10. For an elaborate answer to this question, see Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "A Poem Is Being Written," Tendencies (Durham, 1993), pp. 177-214
11. See Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "What Is a Minor Literature?" trans. Dana Polan, in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson et al. (Cambridge, Mass., 1990), pp. 59-69
12. See also Berlant, "'68, or Something."For a strong reading of the ways "the extimate" (the rejected, projected out but never fully lost objects of self-identity) can take on narrative shape and intensity, see Joan Copjec, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicist (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp. 117-39
13. For a mode of social theory that rhetorically and analytically links the possibility of concrete justice to a radical understanding of the ways people are politically (dispossessed by stories, see Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor (Cambridge, Mass., 1991)