...—which ended up with the exclusion of the commons from the realm of both private and public law—was the theory of subjective rights. To dismantle this construction, the essay proposes a critique of subjective rights as well as a trans-subjective approach to private law. The South Atlantic Quarterly 118:4...

..., Los Angeles Review of Books , August 2 . thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political/ . AGAINST the DAY Amanda Armstrong Certificates of Live Birth and Dead Names: On the Subject of Recent Anti-Trans Legislation During the spring...

..., the structures of knowledge and regimes of truth that produce them, and the political economies that necessitate them? To what extent does positioning queer and trans of color critique as methods objects and subjects, “beyond identity politics,” or even “the Human,” alleviate or otherwise reconfigure...

...Massimo De Angelis In this article, I want to explore some complexities of a politics grounded on social reproduction. Among the many possible objectives of the commons, the most important for the purpose of thinking through a process of trans-formative social change are those that aim...

... speak to forms of radical abolitionist politics present in the United States, where we might observe the centrality of land in both abolition and decolonization. To this end, I first provide a definition of a trans feminist abolition radically focused on the otherwise, or the eradication of all forms...

... they [clients] gon want from me; some want to fuck me and others want me to fuck them. But they always say they love that I m dark skinned and trans. Mel s words present a conundrum: her Blackness and transness prevented her from getting a retail job at the same time that her embodiment as a Black transwoman...

... secure identification as queer or lesbian; the narrated desire to question whether surgery or hormones are “really necessary”,,” and (sometimes) the eventual arrival at reconciliation or “integrating” the partner's transness. 6 The exceptions are a regular column by a trans masculine partner...

... analysis: (1) those that concern “queers/trans of color” as subjects or (2) deploy some iteration of queer of color critique as a method or analytic. Queer of color critique is an epistemological intervention and a “method for analyzing cultural formations as registries of the intersections of race...

... and Dorner 2011), in the sense that each comes into being as it is storied over time, by oneself and by others. As two so-called epidemics on the rise, a temporality of urgency now attaches to both autistic and transgender subjects, and in recent years those who straddle the categories autistic and trans...

..., What Is Philosophy?, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York, 1994 [1991 7. 4 See Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume s Theory of Human Nature, trans. Constantin V. Boundas (New York, 1991 [1953 86. 5 Ibid., 107, 107-8, in, 109. 6 Ibid., 101. 7 Ibid., 108. 8 Ibid...

... the “impossibility of bear- ing witness” (RA, chapter 3) in general and eventually is synonymous with his definition of subjectivity. It is the very structure of all true testimony that it is simultaneously an absolute command, the true ethical impera- tive, and also essentially impossible. Auschwitz thus...

... incarnation, they claim (and which they examine through the appropriation of carnival is fetish­ ism or repression, through which academic work reveals its discursive mirroring [as] the subject-formation of the middle classes. 1 Either abstracted out of all existence, with mere content viewed as a crude...

..., and sexuality determine the norms of intimate and public social relations, those of democracy, nation, prison, property, labor, and (settler) colonialism, a trans politics aimed at disrupting those institutions may not read as politics at all. But as subjects within all of these institutions, gender...

... support their transgender children, parental support of trans kids is, unfortunately, quite rare. More common is the strict gender socialization to which most of us were subjected by our families while growing up: being taught what to wear, how to talk, how to walk, how to eat, how to sit, where to go...

... in the harmonious integrity of the whole. By means of this death scene, Machiavelli suggested that sovereigns must be prepared to exercise violent power over the divisible bodies of subjects in the name of securing the polity. I will argue here that the decline and death of the ancient metaphor of the body politic...

..., is not to be mistaken for the nihilistic “as if ” that haunts Nietzsche (Time That Remains, 35–37). Whereas the “as if ” indicates the perspective the subject takes on itself, the “as not” “does not involve a point of view from which we could see a world in which redemption had taken place” (41). This is so...

... jail’s intake area, she remained seated in silent protest, refusing to become the subject, which is to say the object, of the anti- trans, anti-queer, and anti-black utterances of Officer McRae.1 Framed within the frame, a closed-circuit television (CCTV) captured the event. The high-angle...

... University of New York Press, 2012). 7 Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981– 1982, ed. Frédéric Gros, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Picador, 2005), 251–52. 8 M. M. Bakhtin, Toward a Philosophy of the Act, ed. Vadim Liapunov...

... of Michel Foucault, vol. 1, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: New Press, 1997), 39–50. 7 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (Lon- don: Penguin, 1977), 220–22. 8 Marx, Capital, 492–508. See also François Guéry...

... that the subject can choose whether or not to be committed supposes that abstention or neutrality is a possibility. A subject considering a possible political engagement is already installed comfortably (but maybe not without a certain discontent) on the side of autonomy. In a heteronomous space, no one...