...Ellis Hanson In 1995, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick proposed the concept of “reparative reading,” a critique of what she called “paranoid reading,” a certain hermeneutic of aggravated suspicion and negative affects. In recent years, psychoanalytic theorists of queerness have taken a quite different turn...

... arguments is developed and new paradigms, such as that of reparative reading, emerge from theory's deep engagement with the pressures and the tragedies of gay lives. Race has come to be understood as much more complicated than early theorizations realized, and the problems of theorizing power and...

... dismissive line, “everybody’s a critic” might suggest the arrival of a truly demotic criticism. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 critique as bad object reparative criticism cynical reason agnotology References Barthes Roland . 1971 . “ Change the Object Itself .” In...

... them. Our labor must be to study these signs and the events that under- lie them. This is the work of what we might call ‘‘prognostic reasoning which should contribute to ‘‘reparative reasoning the thinking that is...

.... Discourses and their affiliated strategies. Ellis Hanson on reparative read- ing, Patrick Greaney on the quotational strategy of the Situationist Inter- national, and Michael Naas on Derrida’s theory of photography are cases in point. Practice/practices. Several essays revolve around the question...

... perpetrated against the Pales- tinians, are not just crimes against Palestinians but crimes against human- ity, according to Hannah Arendt’s (2006) interpretation of this phrase. Stop- ping crimes against humanity and addressing the plight of their victims, providing reparations, and inventing forms of...

... reparative criti- cism: that because we can’t know in advance—we can know only retro- spectively, if even then—what is queer and what is not, we gather and com- bine eclectically and idiosyncratically, dragging a bunch of cultural debris around with us and stacking it in eclectic piles “not necessarily...

... 2011 The Future’s Eve: Reparative Reading after Sedgwick 101 The History of Digital Desire, vol. 1: An Introduction 583 Hardt, Michael, Note from the Editor 1 Note from the Editor 746 Note from the Editor 964 The Militancy of Theory 19 Hardt, Michael, and Wahneema Lubiano, introduction...

... that has followed. And in spite of genera- tions of black descendants, no reparation has ever been paid to them. As the story is most commonly told, there is only mention made to a legiti- mate debt paid with the bodies, blood, and breath of Jefferson’s slaves but no mention of any compensation...

... insist on the following point: the question of reparations in Arab countries in general, as well as the questions regarding the condition of black Libyans and black sub-Saharan Africans in Libya, must be formulated with a view to appealing to the states of these regions. But we must be sure not to enlist...

... into something like a whole, albeit a compromised one. It is worth emphasizing that Klein’s rhetoric of reparation does not assume that the “repaired” object will resemble a preexisting object—there is nothing intrinsically conservative about the impulse of reparation. Once assembled, these...

..., without an analysis of the history of racialization and the violence of liberalism, as well as of hetero- and gender normativity. Trans politics in its most trenchant form wants abo­ lition, an end to wealth, full communism, free water, food, air, and health care, reparations, and decolonization...

... “consecrated” to a real personal sacrifce in the name of collective reparation—that is, to the good or heroic death—the langue of the damned was perceived as a kind of mother tongue. Some of the key connotations of the langue of the damned, as the refusal of the master-slave dialectic (posed by G...

... . 2013 . “ Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene .” New York Times , November 10 . https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene . Sedgwick Eve . 2003 . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably...

... favors the rich nuances and idiosyncrasies of what she calls reparative read- ing over programmatic or ideological readings that seek to line up cultural texts as progressive or reactionary. Reparative reading is affectively driven, Public Feelings...

... Reparation,” in Love, Guilt, and Reparation and Other Works (London: Virago, 1988), and Meira Likierman, Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context (New York: Con- tinuum, 2001). 16 Duncan Kennedy, “A Semiotics of Critique,” Cardozo Law Review 22.1147 (2001): 1169–75. ...

... principles such as reparations, reconstruction, jubilee, and land liberation. However, even as racialized eco- nomic injustice remains the deep structuring dynamic for the lives of people 798  The South Atlantic Quarterly • Against the Day • Fall 2013 of color, often the most immediately...

... inverse relationship between apology and material compen- sation: a good apology must include effective reparation, but the material cost must be subsumed within a real symbolic cost to pride rather than being either a payment for...