S Pearl Brilmyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 9709759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Pearl Brilmyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Pearl |
| FAMILY NAME | Brilmyer |
| SIGNATURE | BRILMYER S P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Response VII
Queer Rigidity
This article explores the contributions of nineteenth-century philosophers of habit to understanding the rigidity of desire. Focusing on the work of Félix Ravaisson, I argue that Of Habit (1838) makes sense of something that much queer theory fails to address in its investment in the subversion of identity: the tendency of desire to return to known objects and follow well-worn paths, a tendency that does not always result in the affirmation of no…
Deconstruction
This essay explores Leo Bersani's relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close reading of a sentence from Homos forms the refrain for a discussion of the ontology of sexuality, the exclusionary nature of desire, resistances of self and world, and …
Introduction
This introduction contextualizes Lou Andreas-Salomé’s 1916 essay ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ within early psychoanalytic debates about anal sexuality, narcissism, and subject-formation, and gestures toward its relevance for recent thinking in queer theory and critical race studies. While Andreas-Salomé’s work has often been read as a gloss to Freud’s sexual theory, we emphasize the originality of her contributions to psychoanalytic discourse. Not only …
The Ontology of the Couple
This essay excavates from within the history of feminist and queer theory a series of implicit theories of the couple, ranging from French feminist critiques of asymmetrical heterosexual relationships to triadic accounts of the queer as couple's sexual and racialized Other. We turn to four integers—one, two, three, and zero— to comprehend the shifting relationship between the Couple and the Queer, constructing a queer numerology that attends to t…
Durations of Presents Past
Durations of Presents Past: Ruskin and the Accretive Quality of Time S. Pearl Brilmyer (bio) In what consists the present? For the turn-of-the-twentieth-century philosopher Henri Bergson, the present consists in the accretion of experiences past. Think of time like a tape with two spools: one winding, the other unwinding. As a person grows older, she senses one spool becoming thinner, the other thicker—the past becoming “larger and larger with th…
Plasticity, Form, and the Matter of Character inMiddlemarch
This essay tracks George Eliot’s construction of a layer of descriptions of characters as soft matter—as liquids, polymers, and other types of condensed matter in a malleable state—in her 1874 novel Middlemarch , elucidating what Brilmyer calls a physics of character from within its pages. In so doing, it suggests that even the most notoriously “brainy” of novels—on the level of its descriptions—resists a too-easy alignment of its characters with…
Plasticity, Form, and the Matter of Character in Middlemarch
This essay tracks George Eliot's construction of a layer of descriptions of characters as soft matter-as liquids, polymers, and other types of condensed matter in a malleable state-in her 1874 novel Middlemarch, elucidating what Brilmyer calls a physics of character from within its pages. In so doing, it suggests that even the most notoriously "brainy" of novels-on the level of its descriptions-resists a too-easy alignment of its characters with …
The Bonds of Choice
Book Review| January 01 2012 The Bonds of Choice The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of IntimacyEng, David L. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xiv + 251 pp. S. Pearl Brilmyer S. Pearl Brilmyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1422215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citat…
Queer Rigidity
This article explores the contributions of nineteenth-century philosophers of habit to understanding the rigidity of desire. Focusing on the work of Félix Ravaisson, I argue that Of Habit (1838) makes sense of something that much queer theory fails to address in its investment in the subversion of identity: the tendency of desire to return to known objects and follow well-worn paths, a tendency that does not always result in the affirmation of no…
The Ontology of the Couple
This essay excavates from within the history of feminist and queer theory a series of implicit theories of the couple, ranging from French feminist critiques of asymmetrical heterosexual relationships to triadic accounts of the queer as couple's sexual and racialized Other. We turn to four integers—one, two, three, and zero— to comprehend the shifting relationship between the Couple and the Queer, constructing a queer numerology that attends to t…
The Bonds of Choice
Book Review| January 01 2012 The Bonds of Choice The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of IntimacyEng, David L. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xiv + 251 pp. S. Pearl Brilmyer S. Pearl Brilmyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1422215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citat…
Plasticity, Form, and the Matter of Character inMiddlemarch
This essay tracks George Eliot’s construction of a layer of descriptions of characters as soft matter—as liquids, polymers, and other types of condensed matter in a malleable state—in her 1874 novel Middlemarch , elucidating what Brilmyer calls a physics of character from within its pages. In so doing, it suggests that even the most notoriously “brainy” of novels—on the level of its descriptions—resists a too-easy alignment of its characters with…
Plasticity, Form, and the Matter of Character in Middlemarch
This essay tracks George Eliot's construction of a layer of descriptions of characters as soft matter-as liquids, polymers, and other types of condensed matter in a malleable state-in her 1874 novel Middlemarch, elucidating what Brilmyer calls a physics of character from within its pages. In so doing, it suggests that even the most notoriously "brainy" of novels-on the level of its descriptions-resists a too-easy alignment of its characters with …
Durations of Presents Past
Durations of Presents Past: Ruskin and the Accretive Quality of Time S. Pearl Brilmyer (bio) In what consists the present? For the turn-of-the-twentieth-century philosopher Henri Bergson, the present consists in the accretion of experiences past. Think of time like a tape with two spools: one winding, the other unwinding. As a person grows older, she senses one spool becoming thinner, the other thicker—the past becoming “larger and larger with th…
The Ontology of the Couple
This essay excavates from within the history of feminist and queer theory a series of implicit theories of the couple, ranging from French feminist critiques of asymmetrical heterosexual relationships to triadic accounts of the queer as couple's sexual and racialized Other. We turn to four integers—one, two, three, and zero— to comprehend the shifting relationship between the Couple and the Queer, constructing a queer numerology that attends to t…
Introduction
This introduction contextualizes Lou Andreas-Salomé’s 1916 essay ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ within early psychoanalytic debates about anal sexuality, narcissism, and subject-formation, and gestures toward its relevance for recent thinking in queer theory and critical race studies. While Andreas-Salomé’s work has often been read as a gloss to Freud’s sexual theory, we emphasize the originality of her contributions to psychoanalytic discourse. Not only …
Deconstruction
This essay explores Leo Bersani's relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close reading of a sentence from Homos forms the refrain for a discussion of the ontology of sexuality, the exclusionary nature of desire, resistances of self and world, and …
Critical Response VII
Queer Rigidity
This article explores the contributions of nineteenth-century philosophers of habit to understanding the rigidity of desire. Focusing on the work of Félix Ravaisson, I argue that Of Habit (1838) makes sense of something that much queer theory fails to address in its investment in the subversion of identity: the tendency of desire to return to known objects and follow well-worn paths, a tendency that does not always result in the affirmation of no…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)