... to outline a plausible Irigarayan defense against the charge of cissexism. Finally, I argue that this defense cannot be reconciled with her claim that ontology is sexed. The only thing making Irigaray's notion of sexual difference coherent or giving it substance is the impassable limit she places...

... historical moments. Taking cues from Lee Edelman as well as recent Afro-pessimist scholarship, we approach the Couple not as a sociological category, but as a structure of being , and the Queer, not as an identitarian category but as an (non)ontological position . Drawing from a diverse archive of texts from...

... social norms and depends on those norms, and those others, for its survival. The ontology of the body is thus a social ontology: we are all over each other, and that is true from the start. The generalized condition of precariousness that characterizes all bodies—and that makes the possibility of both...

... scientific racism and eugenics. The essay considers two scientific speculators, H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley, whose works demonstrate risks that we must be mindful of in embracing an ontology of life. There are ramifications of self-directed scientific modification of the biological, as Wells's and Huxley's...

...Annamarie Jagose Queer thinking to date has tended to write off the couple form as foundationally normative. This essay offers a renewed ontology of the couple via an autoethnographic account of human-animal cohabitation: my own coupled raising of a dog. Through a close reading of Deleuze and...

... . Muñoz José Esteban . 1999 . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Todd Zoe . 2016 . “ An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism .” Journal of...

... , Derrida Jacques , ix – lxxxvii . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Stanley Eric . 2011 . “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture.” Social Text , no. 107 : 1 – 19 . Vattimo Gianni . 2003 . Nihilism and Emancipation . Edited by Zabala Santiago...

... Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Coole Diana Frost Samantha . 2010 . “ Introducing the New Materialisms ”In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, Politics , edited by Coole Diana Frost...

... of American studies at George Washington Uni- versity. His manuscript Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipa- tion is forthcoming. DOI 10.1215/10642684-3880811 ...

... : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Hartman Saidiya . 2015 . “ Keynote Address .” Black/Queer Ontologies Symposium , Princeton University , October 24 . vimeo.com/144305401 . Lorde Audre . 1978 . “ A Litany for Survival .” The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde . 2000 . New York...

... than a reification of identity.2 In his writing, identification is privileged over identity and ontology over the sociology of race. I feel the most affinity with Marriott’s writing when it illuminates black- ness as a structural position, as an ontology rather than an...

... once worked to “make it all mental,” as Birkin would have it, his more recent ontological and, in chapter 5 of the new volume, cosmological explorations of sensuality and relationality might best be designated Lawrentian. This, then, is neither the Bersani who...

... in English translation. Catherine Zimmer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is titled “Film on Film: Self- Reflexivity and the Cinema of Ontology.” GLQ 7.3-10...

... produce the epistemological and ontological foundation for understanding gender as a mutable category. Through his preface and acknowledgments, Snorton marks this book as a political project that centers the lives and voices of Black trans people. Providing a clear and necessary lexical roadmap to the...

... Southwest, the photograph’s location, its invocation of temporal contrast, has political as well as geological and ontological valence; this desert terrain belongs to a region over- laid with histories of occupation, of settlement, displacement, colonization, and genocide, as well as of attachment...

... those who are touched by an event define and are defined by it,” in a formulation that presents some degree of rupturing and ontological reconfiguration as constitutive processes in any event.11 In Bruno Latour’s terms, “an event has consequences for the histo- ricity...

... denigration of certain sexuali- ties and sexual ontologies. Such denigration is happening in conjunction with a governmental rebranding effort to promote other subaltern forms of sexual subjec- tivity, most especially the rebranding of Brazil as sexually liberal, tolerant, and gay-­friendly in an effort...

.... Animacies is an erudite mapping of the coerciveness of cosmological hier- archies of being, of the ontological classifications that deny life to the people, phe- nomena, and things that they sort into impossible solitudes. Words, animals, met- als, bodies, and objects all possess an agency that exceeds...

...” (6). The new alliances and dynamics generated by human security states “are queer or curious . . . when seen from the perspec- tive of political analysts who assume military institutions are synonymous with authoritarian regimes, that the security state is the ontological opposite of civil...