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..., and biopolitics. Identifying Diane DiMassa’s comic series Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1999) and Robert Eggers’s Puritan horror film, The Witch (2015), as emblematic of this approach, the essay argues that both texts champion a reparative approach to paranoid sensibilities that takes seriously...

... U.S. queers as regulatory over the racialized and sexualized populations targeted within the imperial biopolitics of the war on terror. I explain homonationalism as a quality of U.S. queer modernities having formed within a colonial biopolitics, in which the terrorizing sexual colonization of Native...

..., and toxicity itself are sexually and racially instantiated in the recent panic about lead content in Chinese-manufactured toys exported the United States. This analysis, while seeming at first to hover somewhat outside queerness, is completed in the next section, where I interweave biopolitical considerations...

...Kyla Schuller Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era . Preciado Paul B. , translated by Benderson Bruce . New York : Feminist Press , 2013 . x + 427 pp . The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman...

... if HUMANITIES REVIEW 421 Otik’s breaching of the line between vegetable and mammal is not simply a sur- realist conceit (or cautionary tale about unnatural desires) but an important queer comment on the relations between heteronormativity, capitalism, and biopolitics? Tracing this line of questioning...

...Noor Al-Qasimi This essay delineates the contours of the United Arab Emirates’s biopolitical national project through the lens of queerness as a site of productive failure, rupture, and danger—one with the potential to disrupt the heteronormative notions of lineage and futurity upon which...

...), the editors draw on Achille Mbembe’s influential theoriza- tion of necropolitics as a “concept-­metaphor” to illuminate varying and unequal distributions of life and death (3). Necropolitics supplements the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics to describe how contemporary forms of power...

... David T. Snyder Sharon L. . 2015 . The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiments . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . BOOKS IN BRIEF 663 IS THE STUDY OF DEBILITY AKIN TO DISABILITY STUDIES WITHOUT DISABILITY? David T. Mitchell and Sharon...

..., distinguished not by their relations to animals but by their relations to capital. Finally, the article reads this insight against the biopolitical theorist Giorgio Agamben's concept of anthropogenesis and notes that such exemptions reveal a limitation in his theory. In place of the timeless ritualism...

...-century capitalism in the context of his determination, as he says in Walden , to “love the wild not less than the good.” It tracks Thoreau's interest in the wild as part of his career-wide effort to imagine carnal life away from the forms of biopolitical coding and optimization that he understood...

... , however, can also be read as anticipating, from a disability studies perspective, queer analyses (such as Licia Fiol-Matta's book A Queer Mother for the Nation or Jasbir K. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages ) that do not emerge until much later—analyses stressing the uneven biopolitical incorporation...

... the flashpoint in a biopolitical battle between colonists and indigenous peoples in Natal. For settlers, polygamy failed at being properly heteronormative, instead indicating an overweening hyper-heterosexuality in Zulu men. As a result, to white observers, polygamy presented a dangerous and disruptive challenge...

... of transgender, they offer important insight into the biopolitical and geopolitical contexts through which gendered subjects are produced and maintained. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Substance of Borders Transgender Politics, Mobility, and US State Regulation of Testosterone Toby...

...Julian Gill-Peterson This essay considers the mutation of the temporality of HIV/AIDS in the United States from epidemic time to endemic time — the biopolitical distribution of life and death capacities across populations — as a critical noncoincidence of the present with itself. That the present...

... (fish threesomes) to the raunchy (bestiality in the cowshed), and even more ordinary combinations of both (dogs' dry-humping), the forms of sociality accruing in these discussions lay foundations for new biopolitical (as opposed to disciplinary) knowledges, prompting further inquiry into what happens...

...‐of‐color and Indigenous concerns, the article demonstrates how biopolitical and necropolitical value is extracted from communities exposed to intersecting violences with differential dividends distributed to queer Latino/a and Afro‐Latino/a communities. Following queer-of-color and Indigenous scholars...

... a securitizing biopolitical function. To include LGBT families in the Let s Move! campaign was to increase the number of parents policing their children s bodies according to normative standards of health. In the first volume of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault (1990, 1:138 45) describes how...

... . “The ‘Right’ to Maim: Inhumanist Biopolitics in Palestine.” Borderlands journal 14 , no. 1 . Puar Jasbir Mikdashi Maya . 2012 . “Pinkwatching and Pinkwashing: Interpenetration and Its Discontents.” Jadaliyya August 9 . Said Edward W. 1978 . Orientalism . New York...

... colonialism is overdue in queer studies, even though such a critique has the potential to shift the nineteenth-century historical grounding of queer studies in a nascent “homosexuality” or in a “homo­social” platonic public to the biopolitical emergence of what is now called...

..., so depleted queer life. (Coviello describes this as “protohomonationalism” [229]). Yet, the book argues, it's not enough to describe these histories as the biopolitics of racism or as the force of state imperialism, and he instead identifies throughout the book the impact of a third historical...