... technologies . College Park, MD : University of Maryland , 1987 . Klein Jan . Immunology: The Science of Non-Self Discrimination . New York : Wiley-Interscience , 1982 . Kolata Gina . “ New Research Yields Clues in Fight Against Autoimmune Disease .” New York Times 19 Jan. 1988...

...Jules Gill-Peterson This essay poses two critical questions about trans politics as elaborated in the Global North today: Who is the subject of gender self-determination? And what, precisely, is mobilized by tying political sovereignty to gendered persecution and ethical world-making, trans...

... telling while feeding on the rough laughter and crass pleasure of readers and hearers to create something like survival, or at least having the last laugh. Evelynn Hammonds fable grounded theory LGBTQ+ academics self-defense storytelling method writerly extravagance In the following, I...

... 25 - 26 ( 1990 ): 146 - 70 . LINDA M. G. ZERILLI RelDelDoration or War? French FelDinist Narrative and the Politics of Self-Representation There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember...

... necessarily dictating it), then the peculiar identity and ubiquity of a norm is neither restricted nor prohibited. In sum, what is normal about a norm? This essay explores power’s intransitivity, its “self-possession,” by interrogating the way that cultural analysis routinely assumes that the workings...

... for their reception, Bersani brackets the literature on sociality and sexuality that has come before, including his own, which variously posits the homosexual and the queer as figures of radical negation. Averse to such recuperations of the sovereign self, Bersani’s bracketing instead makes space for the homoerotic...

... . “ Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination? ” Bradway 202 – 23 . Gilmore Leigh . “ Giving an Epistolary Account of Oneself: Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy .” Bradway 139 – 49 . Halberstam Jack . The Queer Art of Failure . Durham : Duke UP , 2011 . Huffer Lynne...

...Teagan Bradway This essay recovers Judith Butler’s theory of self-narration for queer theory and narratology. The essay shows how self-narration unlocks relational capacities not entirely stifled by disciplinary power. The essay spotlights the importance of renarratability, or the capacity...

...Karen Barad This essay explores the act of touching as it takes place in physical matter, in theorizing, and in the productive spaces where the two are indistinguishable. First, the author considers how feminist theory goes about touching science and unpacks touch as an act that reveals the self...

...Warren Montag Is Spinoza a theoretician of self-interest? Historians of philosophy have arrived at diametrically opposed answers to this question. His introduction of the term conatus , meaning endeavor or striving, in part 3 of the Ethics , together with his assertion that when human beings most...

...Tom Holert Aiming at rendering “somewhat irrelevant” the “question of sadism” in the critique of film’s “seductive epistemological promise,” Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit argued for a “participation in the film” that is “at once self-reflexive and self-shattering.” Such participation may bring...

... differentiation of state capitalism as the era of ideology and market capitalism as the era of commodity fetishism, this new theory argues that biopolitical mechanisms are organized around the transhistorical prohibition of self-referentiality—a prohibition that constitutes the very precondition for any society...

... or the creation of timelines and lifelines, these researchers want to help individuals achieve comprehensive memories, which they hope will lead to greater self-understanding and, ultimately, to greater self-management. In doing so, these memories are made to matter, they are made material, and as they are stored...

... asylum seekers will be recognized as having a credible fear of persecution. To unhcr officers conducting asylum interviews, a claimant’s gender nonconformity functions as a proxy for credibility. Self-identified bears, with their masculine gender expression, cannot pass this litmus test and thus...

...Elissa Marder In “Cradling,” a chapter of Baudelaire and Freud , Leo Bersani shows how desire rocks the self. Desire always manifests as a movement that draws the self both toward and away from the object that excites it. Rocking simultaneously invokes infantile erotic enjoyment, an adult sexual...

...Brady Thomas Heiner Among the principal demands of contemporary political theory and practice is to determine habitable alternatives to (1) the violent and falsely two-sided dynamic of sovereignty and (2) the modern equation of the unitary, self-governing entity with the human itself. This essay...

... of social order and the limits of knowledge. Through analyses of eighteenth- and twenty-first-century cultural texts, she posits that this new cultural discourse, germane to free-market capitalism, is best understood as epistemically governed by the affective concept of a “headless” feeling soma self...

...Bobby Benedicto This essay examines the role of failure in the work of Leo Bersani through the lens of self-shattering, impersonal narcissism, and castration. It revisits Bersani’s account of narcissism and masochism in “Erotic Assumptions” and critiques his subsequent shift toward impersonal...

... relation to masochism. Very similar notions of self-shattering not structured by the other, the world, or the couple are formulated by Gilles Deleuze in the late 1960s, but in this case as characteristics of Sadean demonstrative reason fully distinct from a psychoanalytic position that would insist...