...Aaron Frederick Eldridge Abstract How does tradition, a transmission of body and language, disclose a form of life? This article takes as its point of departure Talal Asad’s methodological pivot away from the modern concept of “belief” to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of “form of life...

.... This article argues that preoccupation with influence inscribes an a priori ontology that already separates the past from the present. This makes it difficult to understand the relation between temporality and a form of life in a discursive tradition, as the question of influence grounds the ostensive...

..., failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life. References Abeysekara Ananda . “ Religious Studies’ Mishandling of Origin and Change: Time, Tradition, and Form-of-Life in Buddhism .” Cultural Critique (forthcoming). Abeysekara Ananda . “ The Un-translatability...

..., not in a messianic mode but in the temporal mode of biopolitical bare life? What is the temporal structure of precarious life? Furthermore, how does this Ashkenazi figural tradition of animal-headed Jews point to forms of resistance to the biopolitics of medieval Christendom? How is messianic theory now...

... is a spatial phenomenon, a theory of life grounded in teratology and the history of disordered forms. Accordingly, I approach the agents of microscopic biology with attention to their formal quality . Building on work analyzing the legacy of twentieth-century vitalism and holism outside philosophy of medicine...

..., stolon (runner) formation and grafting are considered here because they are vegetal forms of procreation that are not rooted in sexual difference and create collective life forms that are based on dividuality rather than individuality. Both characteristics are mobilized for a queer imagination. Analyzing...

... the collective trauma that black people face daily. I am troubled by these accounts because they occlude other forms of reception. The danger of this story—a single story—is that it tends to naturalize how black fans are expected to see themselves in horror. Moreover, it tends to naturalize black life as horror...

..., an inhuman assemblage of sense-making, increasingly the anchor for popular fantasies of the good life (drawing on Lauren Berlant’s formulation regarding affective attachments). 2 If, per Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, assemblages are composed of, on the one hand, forms of content and, on the other...

... distinct from the earth. And since much of our thinking involves a conception of the world, we often reproduce form and employ formalization as a necessary condition for thinking life, value, knowledge, and so forth. In other words, mathematics is thinking. Regardless of genre, the purpose of mathematics...

... Languages, Nahuatl in particular. Writing elsewheres would consist of drawing the limits of what I will call, following Jacques Derrida, Greco-Abrahamic forms of life.3 These limits would be conceptualized as the frontiers of empire, in the sense that these are areas in the process...

... distribution of human beings and forms of life. The poetic opposition of two ways of linking events in a horizontal connection itself rested on a vertical division of temporalities, a hierarchy separating two forms of life and two categories of human beings. The temporality of the causal connection...

..., in this translation, is turned into an abstract entity such as a number or, today, information in which it is made easily accessible and translatable. Secular reason’s dependence on mathematization and calculability therefore leads it to construct abstractions removed from forms of life. But the abstract notion...

... that ignoring the “diff erences between diff erent forms of life— sunfl owers versus bonobos” (pt, xi, quoting Cary Wolfe) risks losing the ethical ground animal studies has gained, and that taking seriously the theories that plants feel pain will leave even vegans with no ethical choice but to starve...

... the protocols of citizen- man, the precur- sor of the proper subject of globopolitical life) that the US technocrat- ic production of Filipino subjects as particular forms of social relation to work, nature, and value, indeed as particular dispositions toward oneself and others, bears...

... terrestrial entity; and second, the wan- dering condition: here I play with the etymology of the word planet, which derives from planasthai, which means “to wander.” Whereas the environmental situation stresses the relational ontology of terrestrial- situated forms of life...

... that always exceed the realm of ideology” ( bl , 104), including both radical and liberal ideology. If Adorno is critical of wrong life, liberalism is critical of wrongly abstracting from life. Bleak liberalism’s distinctive form of aesthetic negativity emerges as an excess to any ideological totalization...

...” for and in Anthropocene, see Colebrook , “We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene.” 6. Battistoni , “Monstrous, Duplicated, Potent.” 5. On form-of-life, see esp. Agamben , Use of Bodies . 4. Haraway cites Latour and expresses her dissatisfaction with “the corrosive, self-certain, and self-contained...

... by Liz Rose), as well as Oksana Vasyakina and Elena Kostyleva (translated from the Russian by Helena Kernan). Each contribution speaks to and across different valences of the paranormative, attending to forms of life that do not return to “the normal” but instead stage its undoing. As more and more...

...: lack of emotional engagement, profound indifference and detachment—it is a subject who is no longer “in-the-world” in the Heideggerian sense of engaged embodied existence. This subject lives death as a form of life—his life is death-drive em- bodied, a life deprived...

... essence, as primary. This already restores art to “everyday” life instead of rendering it the exalted and superior form of life. Excess comes second, as effect rather than as cause; it is ordered to a cause that alone can account for the very dimension of excess or alterity. Only in this way...