... tends to reinforce the separation between subjects and objects that women’s and gender studies hopes to pluralize, often positioning “gender” as a more singular object than “sexuality.” In accepting such a teleology and taxonomy, is there a risk of ceding the terrain of gender to conservative forces...

..., as well as engaging the feminist theory of Judith Butler. While addressing such topics as globalization, terrorism, violence, and vulnerability, the question of ontology is central to the interview. Cavarero refines Arendt's perspective and emphasizes an ontology of singularity characterized...

... a middle course between the Lacanian “object voice” of Mladen Dolar and the intense focus on human singularity of Adriana Cavarero. Through discussions of the libidinal economy circulating within certain mythological tropes (Sirens, Swan Maidens, Narcissus/Echo, etc.) as well as an aesthetic genealogy...

..., for the animal marks a point at which language or narrative is unequal to itself. The singular, constitutive thresholds or folds of these fables in turn betray something of how language or narrative might work, in what nameless bodies—and even bodiless names—it secretly trades. thangam ravindranathan...

... to articulate an onto-ethics of singularity and correspondences, of nonrelatedness and unity, in a way that comes to inform his post-1980s work on queer theory and queer ethics. It is Bersani’s commitment to ontology that renders his work, despite its influence on a number of fields, something of an anomaly...

...Ankhi Mukherjee This essay examines singular traumas suffered by Tibetan refugees and expedient and culture-specific cures for the same. Drawing on Honey Oberoi Vahali’s Lives in Exile and other ethnographic studies of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, it shows how classic trauma theory...

...Forest Pyle A radical identification predicated on unlikeness: this is how Leo Bersani understands the singular mode of desiring that Emily Brontë invents in her incomparable novel. With Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights offers new “forms of being,” untethered to the world (of society...

... the singular modality of the death drive. Attempting to reconstruct the experience of the first men, the author proposes that the death drive responded to the anxiety provoked by their encounter with the absence at the heart of the address, or with the Other as such, before they were in possession of the myths...

... predicament of trauma, latency, and the return of the repressed. What is most innovative about Moses —its fragmentary style, its rewriting of biblical origins, its daring conjectures and methods of recording history—gestures back, after all , to the singular problem that both Freudian psychoanalysis...

... singularity, antinormativity is not a homogenous thing except in its field-founding force for queer theory. Works Cited Bad Object-Choices . Introduction . How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video . Ed. Bad Object-Choices . Seattle : Bay , 1991 . 1 – 29 . Butler Judith . “ Critically Queer...

...Filippo Del Lucchese Starting with Gilbert Simondon's theory of the individual (singular and collective) and its genesis, developed in his book L'individuation psychique et collective , this article discusses the principle of individuation and the critique of finalism. Simondon distinguishes...

... of subjection and subjectivation in terms of interpellation and counterinterpellation offered by Judith Butler as early as 1997. In this essay, “performative” dimensions of Althusser’s critique of ideology are presented as a singular moment of crystallization within an open trajectory, leading from...

... that result from interpellating encounters, and it theorizes disobedience as the becoming-dominant of countersubjectivations within each singular subjectivity understood as a contradictory unity. The essay contends that aleatory materialism puts forth the field of subjectivity as a theater within theater...

... among many possible points of departure for whatever will count as thinking in whatever future there may be. Being co-immanence continuity metaphysics multiplicity singularity From Leibniz’s notion of monads to Merleau-Ponty’s reflection on what he calls the world’s flesh, there is a line...

...? According to a logic of the event extended by Jacques Der- rida, what separates the event from a performative act, from that which makes something happen, from that which makes something arrive in its performance, is its singularity...

... jetzt und gestern, sondern immerdar/ lebt es, und keiner weiß, von wannen es erschien”—but with colloquialisms ( etwa )—so that it is at once more formal and more particular than his later rendering of these verses, and thus in line with his remarks on the tautological, universal singularity of every...

... historical subjects for histories of gender in contemporary "Asia"? Historians should work with singularity, and yet often we leave in place reductionist explanatory frameworks. When historians are unwilling to take stock of a particular relation of representation-signifier to signified, or, in historical...

... the delicate balance of species as a whole in nature. Spinoza’s conatus is disengaged from any teleology; it is simply the tendency for any singular thing (res singularis) at all, animate or inanimate, a stone or a human being...

.... The body is thus produced by the eroticization of the living being as a result of psychical events, traumas, singular mental representations, and hallucinations, which introduce a quest that drives the living being toward fantasized aims and objects of satisfaction that fall outside the fields...

...? —Spillers Any materiality abstracted as a formal element from the erotogenic body deserves to be called a letter, identifiable in its singularity. This letter is, as such, capable of being reproduced, re-evoked, repeated in some way, so as to scan and articulate the chant of desire. —Leclaire...