McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker's writing to outline Acker's philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing the trans experience.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century,... Læs mere
Sarah Jane Cervenak traces how Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and land as given to enclosure and ownership.
In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space.
Cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover examines Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner,” charting its place in rock & roll history and American culture.
Nitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawai?i, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism.
Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recognition, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples.
Patricia Stuelke traces the hidden history of the reparative turn, showing how it emerged out of the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s and unintentionally supported new forms of neoliberal and imperial governance.
Eric A. Stanley examines the forms of violence levied against trans/queer and gender nonconforming people in the United... Læs mere
This collection of twenty-four essential essays written by Brian Massumi over the past thirty years is both a primer for those new to his work and a supplemental resource for those already engaged with his thought.