Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction On the Side: Allocations of Attention in the Theoretical Moment 1
5. Part I chronologies aside
6. Chapter 1 Writing the History of Homophobia 29
7. Chapter 2 Late Exercises in Minimal Affirmatives 34
8. Chapter 3 Comparative Noncontemporaneities: C. L. R. James and Ernst Bloch 56
9. Chapter 4 On Suicide, and Other Forms of Social Extinguishment 78
10. Part II approaches aside
11. Chapter 5 What Is Historical Poetics? 97
12. Chapter 6 The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization 117
13. Chapter 7 Before Racial Construction 143
14. Chapter 8 Archive Favor: African American Literature before and aft er Theory 160
15. Chapter 9 What Cinema Wasn’t: Animating Film Theory’s Double Blind Spot 177
16. Part III figures aside
17. Chapter 10 Hyperbolic Discounting and Intertemporal Bargaining 199
18. Chapter 11 The Primacy of Sensation: Psychophysics, Phenomenology, Whitehead 218
19. Chapter 12 Reading the Social: Erving Goff man and Sexuality Studies 237
20. Chapter 13 Our I. A. Richards Moment: The Machine and Its Adjustments 261
21. Chapter 14 Needing to Know (:) Theory / Afterwords 280
22. Bibliography 287
23. Contributors 299
24. Index 303