This is the Truth-Event

I’m less interested, then, in the “turn toward time” than in the turning or troping by which we’re obliged to keeping turning time into history. Whether polyphonous or univocal, history, thus ontologized, displaces the epistemological impasse, the aporia of relationality, the nonidentity of things, by offering the promise of sequence as the royal road to …

Queer Ecologies

Our argument is thus that we should reorient our politics and take on something like a queer ecological perspective, a transgressive and historically relevant critique of dominant pairings of nature and environment with heteronormativity and homophobia, in order to outline possibilities responsive to these relations and, equally, explicitly critical of the continued organization of dominant …

The Tide that Rolls

"When Hernando de Soto embarked on his civilizing mission through what would later become the American South, he left behind a trail of misery that extended from Florida to the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. Accompanied by priests, de Soto and his men burned their way through native villages, enslaving local citizens in iron …

As for the Abject Multitude?

Another Peculiar Institution

"Peculiar indeed it is that the South somehow could be both the citadel of perversity and too backwater for the gay social register, for gay history." Charles E. Morris, “Introduction: ‘Travelin’ Thru’ the Queer South,” Southern Communication Journal 74, no. 3 (2009): 233–42.

History v. Heritage

Part of what needs to be done is to reconstruct the genealogical descent of why one form of place identity (called 'history') is supposed to be taken as more legitimate than another (called 'heritage'). Regarding rural places, research attempting to develop this sense of a conjunctural non-essential identity has begun to consider the rural as …