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 … Continue reading This is the Truth-Event
Relations
First Comes Love, Then…
Domestic privacy can feel like a controllable space, a world of potential unconflictedness (even for five minutes a day): a world built for you. It may seem of a manageable scale and pacing; at best, it makes visible the effects of one's agency, consciousness, and intention. This leads to another reason the couple form and … Continue reading First Comes Love, Then…
Criminal Intimacies & Queer Counterpublics
By queer culture we mean a world-making project, where "world," like "public," differs from community or group because it necessarily includes more people than can be identified, more spaces than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be learned rather than experienced as a birthright. The queer world is … Continue reading Criminal Intimacies & Queer Counterpublics
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 … Continue reading History v. Heritage