... . REY CHOW Seminal Dispersal, Fecal Retention, and Related Narrative Matters: Eileen Chang’s Tale of Roses in the Problematic of Modern Writing I All students of modern literature are, presumably, familiar...

... We Are the Way We Are: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life . New York:Pantheon, 1994 . barbara herrnstein smith Animal Relatives, Diffi cult Relations The title of this essay points...

... (2) (`within such limits').” Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory . Ed. Tom Cohen et al. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2001 . Goldberg, Myla. Bee Season . New York: Anchor, 2000 . Greenberg, J. R., and Stephen A. Mitchell. Object Relations...

... 181 must be understood as a process, which means it is not the individual, the concept of “individuality,” that deserves ontological primacy, but on the contrary, “relation” and the concept of “relationality.” Simondon argues...

... to those with which they will inevitably come into contact, if not conflict, even if that was no part of their aim. As he says, he wants to learn how to learn about new modes of relation and relationality. This must mean at least a couple of different things: How do we recognize new modes of relation when...

... to them” (161). Motherhood is a relationality, which Lorde’s essay “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response” notes in its tagline, “Not only of a relationship, but of relating.” 8 The distinction here shifts motherhood away from being for the other, a notion that is expressed clearly...

... that such a relational aspect of art manifests itself in the aesthetic alternatives to the political and economic destruction of the world. To articulate the first aspect of artwork’s relationality, which can be thought in traditional...

... the ontological claim of particularity in order to posit a noncausal relation between what we do, think, eat, wear, profess, on the one hand, and what we are, on the other. This interruption of ontology leads also to an eruption of the many layers in which we live our lives—across sexes, genders, religions...

...Charles Shepherdson This article explores the relation between the work of Lacan and Derrida, focusing on the use of modal logic in both writers (the categories of necessity, impossibility, contingency, and possibility). The author explores the structure of the aporia in Derrida as a peculiar...

...Eleanor Kaufman While Leo Bersani makes repeated stringent critiques of relationality and other-oriented sexuality, drawing on an array of literary examples including Gide, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet, he evinces a somewhat ambiguous relation to the question of sadism and to sadism’s inherent...

... of Althusser’s own practice of theory (in its ambivalent relation to structuralism), it concludes, on the other, that no genuine reworking is possible of the historical horizon we all presuppose, apart from the revival of theory or one of its avatars or successors. As in Althusser’s example, theory’s task...

...Dionte Harris This essay examines the game played in the first act of Barry Jenkins’s 2016 film Moonlight . “Smear the queer” is a game most resembling tackle football. The author examines how the “rules” of the game manifest as a type of power, one whose function is to set the terms of relation...

...: the sadomasochistic blur of sexuality and violence. In effect, she sets up an s/m scene of and for feminism. The self-flagellating reading pleasures of MacKinnon unsettle the relation between her dismissal of lesbian sadomasochism and her own s/m textuality. This is not to say that her argument is flawed...

... draws on Roman Jakobson’s theory of metaphor and metonymy, more specifically, his infrequently noted comments on the undecidability of their interrelationship. In terms of this undecidability, the essay reconsiders Freud’s treatments of the relations between the savage and the neurotic, totemism...

...Mikkel Krause Frantzen This article reads William Gaddis’s 1975 novel J R as a way of probing the relation between finance and fiction in the 1970s, showing that the novel is related to the revolution of the junk bond market in the 1970s and 1980s, as personified by the junk bond king, Michael...

.... Narration, however, puts grammar into motion. Irreducibly temporal, narration can trace the dynamic relations that bind and unbind subjects and objects. In doing so, narrative affords vital resources for giving form to the queer relationalities that precede and exceed us, that live within and beyond us...

... change the material conditions or the power relations between professional academics and the marginal subjects they study. The refusal of social scientific methods undermines queer scholars’ claims to interdisciplinarity. While queer studies has understood itself alternately as interdisciplinary...

...Elissa Marder This essay explores how Baudelaire’s insistence on perverse forms of nonreproductive sexuality (what is here called “bad sex”) exposes critical aspects of his poetics and his relation to the question of aesthetics. It takes up two of Baudelaire’s most famous poems (“To the Reader...

...Vicki Kirby Attempting to explain the how, what, and why of normativity has exercised the attentions of social analysts for centuries, remaining an enduring puzzle in sociology since its disciplinary inception. A nest of related riddles attend the subjectivation of the individual, or how the social...

... in the decades since World War II. This volume’s invitation to rethink norms, as Robyn Wiegman and Elizabeth Wilson propose, “not in relation to a compulsory, uniform standard, but through an expansive relationality among and within individuals, across and within groups” (15), prompts me to revisit...