Here are some lists of readings from last semester sorted by interest, because people asked me which of my readings were interesting, and the answer is different for everybody, but I cannot write a different list for every individual who asked me. Hopefully this is helpful to some of you, and to the rest of you, um, here is a cut tag! <3

( Lists of books and papers semi-sorted. )

( not only is appropriation of Hart as a lesbian super problematic and gauche, but so is appropriation of Hart as a transsexual. )

( So is _this_ how you create a body without organs? )

( a kind of corporeal blasphemy )

( the foreskin is feminized; characterized as a dangerous and permeable interior space )

( As somatechnology, the niqab here signifies a garment that refuses the colonial gaze. )

( Homeland must be understood as an affective and temporal process rather than a place. )

( What if we assume the animal has a soul? )

( Trigger warning: Holocaust, other ways people are unspeakable to each other )

This week's TST readings were all about the body politic and the way this idea (specifically, Hobbes's Leviathan) did or did not work out in practice, using examples like trans surgeries, self-demand impairment, blood banking, organ sales, mayhem law, and so on. It was pretty awesome, but because of being behind schedule, I didn't take detailed ( Read more... )