... of the wall’s work on the ground is afforded by the changing habitations of Bethlehem’s feline population. Whereas before the wall was built, cats roamed the city freely at the darkest hours, insensible of the dangers of late-­night drivers, now they proceed...

... were hazel, their waters green. Now repeat after me the three objects I asked you to hold. For I never had a cat I called my own. For he ravaged the neighbor’s chickens for monk brains. For they kidnapped him and he never returned. ...

... human bodies. Our life is by nature destined to know life, to speak with the voices of antelope and Bactrian camels, gaze into the gaze of owls and octopods, fondle the faces of cats and zebras, skip and soar with robins and albatross, hum and chant with bumblebees and locusts, creep and shimmer...

..., when every time a someone dreamed of a black cat and ran into one the next day, we thought those folks on the down low we all know who shook them bones was finally coming up, with the upper hand. But then, the “git-cho-man-back” gooba wasn’t happening. (He disappeared.) We could feel the ooh’s...

.... Ibid. 16. Quam, “These Feet Were Made for Workin 17. Ibid. 18. Quam, “Battle Cats.” 19. Quam, “Evolution of Footwork.” 20. AG in Tim & Barry, I’m Tryna Tell Ya, at 13:17...

... : Yale University Press . Darnton Robert . 1999 . The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History . New York : Basic Books . Domscheit-Berg Daniel . 2011 . Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website . New York...

... that drum and feeling the skin of its head — and it couldn’t be hotter. That’s what they call their drums, skins.42 18 Vogel ∙ Madam Zajj and US Steel In another explanation, Ellington further mused upon this scene: Any real jazz cat . . . is in love with what...

... placeholders for a wide range of vexed categoriza- tions. Whether imagined as a link, or, as Donna Haraway has called it, a “border zone,” between nature and culture, primitivity and modernity, bestiality and humanity,1 the ape’s position as an iconic interstitial cat- egory has become deeply naturalized...

... relationships with employees and learned their rationales for throwing it all away. And in addition to my work with Food Not Bombs, I have developed extensive relationships with, and learned a lot about the rhythms of the commercial waste stream from, Dumpster-­diving urban scavengers — a motley cat...

... Police surveillance of people in villages extended to entering homes and arresting people at will, since the emergency laws passed by the government gave them immense power to arrest and detain people without evidence of a crime being committed. Gill created a special force, known as Black Cats—militants...

.... The Black Aces also drew scrutiny for its narrow terms of member- ship, which excluded black Latinos. Formed by retired African American pitcher Jim “Mud Cat” Grant, the Black Aces club is composed of black pitchers who won twenty or more games in a single...

... it — cat- egorically and tautologically — we bore into the books of the others, in search, say, of “hidden text”; thus we tend to explain it.19 Through “close reading,” so we say, “signification,” or “re-reading” (of our...

.../fieldsights/downwind . Zhan Mei . “ Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, and David Beckham’s Pajamas: Unruly Bodies after SARS .” American Anthropologist, n.s ., 107 , no. 1 ( 2005 ): 31 – 42 . Zhang Sarah . “ Genetically Engineering Pigs to Grow Organs for People .” Atlantic...

... of the controversy. That strategy did not, how- ever, prevent different representations of free expression from emerging. “It’s Like Herding Cats” Giuliani’s attack on the Brooklyn Museum was no surprise to most...

...—as in black versus white or Eastern erect disciplinary versus Western—puts on hold everyone else who does not fit in either cat- egory, sitting, as it were, on the couch awaiting a turn to speak. This “on borders and hold” analytical...

... to evade labor slavery and experience life to the fullest. But is this also true in political terms? The multitude is a new cat- egory in political thought. But how “political” is it compared with the autonomist movement? It is, Virno...

... Ana Dopico assimilated and then critiqued. Here the necessities of a national “late- ness” rediscover and to some degree reinvigorate formations and cat- egories whose strategic, revolutionary, and authorizing discourses, once plumbed, are now read as conservative forms.16 Thus...

... to be critical and at the same time to accept uncritically the founda- tion of public administrationist thought in these spheres of the public and private, and to deny the labor that goes on behind the backs of these cat- egories...

...: the availability of a recognized and acceptable identity cat- egory, the awareness of the context in which one acts, and the ability to limit one’s proclaimed identity to particular social contexts. The distri- bution of these capabilities...

... of — encompassing the molar cat- Puar · Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled Social Text 124 • September 2015 6 3 egories of race, gender, sex — proliferate from bodily habitations of iden- tity to inhabitations of the body. This inhabitation is perhaps one...