... of constantly shifting figure and ground that exceed the frame of any possible representation.”18 And in their introduction to the 1995 col- lection Posthuman Bodies, Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston observed, “Sexu- ality is a dispersed relation between bodies and things. . . . What is bodily about...

... steer clear of yet another loop of “vulgar constructionism”?19 To quote an anony- mous grad student, the turn to animal studies at times reflects a desire for an “Other that doesn’t talk back.” Meanwhile, as Zakiyyah Jackson shows, theories of posthumanism and ani...

...Dana Luciano; Mel Y. Chen “Queer Inhumanisms” from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist , and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands...

... of Renaturalization Hasana Sharp Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ix + 242 pp. In Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization, Hasana Sharp sketches the con- tours of a “philanthropic posthumanism” that she finds in Spinoza’s Ethics. This posthumanism generates an emancipatory politics...

... Corrective to Ontological Irreducibility I am proposing, then, a methodology that inhabits the intersections of disability studies, the affective turn, and theories of posthumanism — all fields of inquiry that put duress on the privileging of (able-­bodied) subject formation...

... 2015 About the Contributors Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. The author of numerous books and articles on the meeting of the posthumanities with the distant past, his most...

...) and coeditor with Ira Livingston of Posthuman Bodies (Indiana University Press, 1995). This article is adapted from her book, Female Masculinity, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 1998. C. Jacob Hale is associate professor of philosophy at California State University, Northridge, where he...

... professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosocial- ity, and Posthuman Ecologies (2014) and The Americas of Asian American Lit- erature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (1999), editor of the Rout- ledge...

...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...

...- bearing, extramural constituency in deciding the relevance of its itinerary. Instead, Nyong o interpolates and accelerates the figures that fabulation subjects to metamorphosis. Regarding Benh Zeitlin s 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild as a dramatization of the dream of posthumanism, he asks, What...

..., thereby instantiating the radical claims of those fields via a posthumanist perspective unbound by conventional claims to identity, agency, and alterity. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Queer studies human/animal studies the couple the pet posthumanism Gilles Deleuze and Félix...

... long act of discre- tion builds to a theatrical climax in which Beka writes a new code of African queerness. Afrofuturist Spectacle Beka s computer serves as the gateway to a posthuman world. In addition to Skyp- ing with Doreen and helping Naijaboy with his scam letter about the Nigerian astronaut...

... Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.” In How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video , edited by Object-Choices Bad , 145 – 68 . Seattle, WA : Bay Press . Jackson Zakiyyah Iman . 2013 . “Animal: New Directions in the Theorization of Race and Posthumanism.” Feminist Studies...

... notions of agency while allowing that some version of agency does survive for the postmodern subject within embodied and relational experiences of subjectivity. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Octavia Butler agency posthumanism science fiction consent “LET ME BITE YOU AGAIN” Vampiric...

... of the legionnaires and the people of Djibouti, in the crusted salt of the Red Sea and the immensity of the mountains and ocean. Might such a posthuman model of distributed and material subjectivities offer an elsewhere to the familial agon that insists that “father knows best...

... a queer, posthuman, and intimate ecology; why language’s insistent materiality matters; the paths along which queer animals travel; how “radical affection does not require intentional politics.” The book elo- quently articulates a “peculiar kind of care” that rejects ontological...

... on the heterogeneity of the human, not to say the posthuman, even as we move beyond heterocentrism? That is, while we may certainly want to celebrate the disappearance of the essentialist terms woman and man (as in “the essential woman” and “the essential man”) in the 1980s...

... heteropatriarchal framework or provide credible posthuman alternatives, Jackson argues). Finally, James Penney’s essay on Jean Genet’s neglected, posthumously published Prisoner of Love, a fiercely personal examination of the Palestinian-­Israeli conflict that consciously implodes all...

... STUDIES Seth, in their use of animal fables to reconfigure queer identities in conjunction with aspects of literary and cultural diaspora (even though the authors ultimately fail to rupture the hegemonic heteropatriarchal framework or provide credible posthuman...

... heteropatriarchal framework or provide credible posthuman alternatives, Jackson argues). Finally, James Penney’s essay on Jean Genet’s neglected, posthumously published Prisoner of Love, a fiercely personal examination of the Palestinian-­Israeli conflict that consciously implodes all...