... a Levinasian conception of responsibility. Finally, and in response to this critique, I turn to the unique case of Vancouver, Canada and the enactment of what I call a politics of world-building, through which political agonists are in the process of creating a new world characterized as attuned with itself...

... in the months afterward to other “conspiracy theories” about the division of Cyprus in 1974 that have circulated for the past five decades. Encompassing and recontextualizing the division of the country and its theorization as conspiracy, the story of the president’s body sheds light on conspiracy attunement...

... In this chapter, I cull a set of attunements for tracking trans history in the archives, especially a history of trans poetics. Turning to stories of trans life at the Five Colleges as well as traditional archive theory, I think the comportments that pull trans into the frame, as much...

... In what follows, I search within political theories of resistance and the Five College archive of trans life for attunements that, far from leaving us waylaid by institutional policies, important personages, and incisive protests, pull the poetics of resistance into the frame. First, I cull...

... In this chapter, I turn to the Five College archive of trans life as well as more canonical theories of hope to explore attunements that best equip us to notice trans hope in a poetic register. First, I cull three attunements from theorists of hope: attunements to trash, to the concrete...

... curiosity mourning attunement ethology Vinciane Despret ...

... Samita Sinha attunement myth detail Sati ...

... agentic attunement drives ego object self-formation ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery ...

... The third chapter delves into the work of attunement as critical corporeal method. The chapter analyzes This ember state (2018), a performance by sound artist Samita Sinha that reworks the myth of Sati, the self-immolating Hindu goddess, to highlight rage and its entanglements with combustion...

...Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator The act of writing this book helps the author crawl out of devastation as a grieving mother. Psychoanalytic methods of observation enable the practice of agentic attunement, a process the author identifies to conceptualize...

... Chapter 2 presents an analysis of the various stages of Gloria Anzaldúa's conocimiento and reads conocimiento as mouthly and as affective mapping, a self's affective attunement to perceptual bodily activity as well as intuitions, images, and spiritual experiences. Understood in terms...

... of entities there are in the world), affect (cognitive and corporeal attunements to such entities), and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). Broadly speaking, it argues that these three themes are empirically, methodologically, and theoretically inseparable—each must be simultaneously...

... Chapter 7 draws close to the philosopher, psychologist, animal-human student, and cultural theorist Vinciane Despret because of her ability to think-with other beings, human or not. Despret’s work on “attunement” and on critters “rendering each other capable” of unexpected feats in actual...

...—women who helped their families and friends escape to freedom. protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery ...

...Part II In this chapter, I cull a set of attunements for tracking trans history in the archives, especially a history of trans poetics. Turning to stories of trans life at the Five Colleges as well as traditional archive theory, I think the comportments that pull trans into the frame, as much...