...Queering Lineages ...

..., affect theory suggests that formations of power—including religion—can be better understood by expanding the scope to include nonlinguistic processes. The survey of affect theory that follows suggests it is best understood according to two lineages. The Deleuzian lineage takes affect...

..., and with an industrial history of synthetic substitutes. It also provides a lineage of ideas and instruments that preceded commercially available analog synthesizers, along with examples of the ways inventors, musicians, and listeners have negotiated cultural understandings of synthesis and synthetics in their designs...

... of mothering, fathering, and lineage, Sila is not capable of infanticide. Rather, I argue that the novel points us toward queer relational performances of vulnerability that require us living with debility and slow death. I end the book with a reading of Zanele Muholi’s Queercide, a series of images stolen off...

... This entry presents a genealogy of “acoustemology,” a 1992 coinage by the author to conjoin “acoustics” and “epistemology” and theorize sound as a way of knowing. The genealogy is traced theoretically as well as ethnographically. In terms of lineages of philosophy and social theory...

..., the long lineage of music studies can be evaluated positively as having already accomplished much fruitful analysis. Reciprocally, sound studies has productively challenged music studies in developing new questions that do not assume a privileged status for music as a formation of sound.  music...

... While citizenship has a long lineage in Western states, we know very little about citizenship’s growth in developing states. Focusing on India and Malaysia, Kamal Sadiq in chapter 9 argues that law-bearing institutions and evidentiary documentation ( jus charta/tabulae ) designed to confirm...

... and psychoanalytic lineage of critique. But cliché proves a slippery object of critique. Resistant to formal analysis, obviating a hermeneutics of suspicion, yet promiscuous and ubiquitous, cliché points us toward language’s materiality: its use, frequency, heft, sound, texture, etc. A phenomenology of cliché...

..., the chapter unpacks the Loving decision to show how it reserves an Indigeneity that disavows Black-Indigenous lineage for a liberal tale of Whiteness—and queerness in subjectlessness—to protect the normativities of same-sex marriage that undergird a liberal colonial state. Queer theory and colonialism...

... Jíbaro music, the country music of Puerto Rico, draws its lineage back to the ancient décima from Spain, featured in music and poetry all across Latin America. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico adopted this genre as reflecting authenticity and values. Yet its policies forced nearly all...

... Felipe IV. Going back well beyond the Spanish conquest to that of the Inka, he presumed an unbroken continuity in his lineage’s loyalty to the state. In this royal decree, the king recognized the family’s ancient Indian nobility as well as its early conversion to Spanish cultural norms (“being among...

... to the Marxist and psychoanalytic lineage of critique. But cliché proves a slippery object of critique. Resistant to formal analysis, obviating a hermeneutics of suspicion, yet promiscuous and ubiquitous, cliché points us toward language’s materiality: its use, frequency, heft, sound, texture, etc...