Notes
1 Adorno, Critical Models, 191.
2 Mintz, Popular Culture.
3 Rothberg, Traumatic Realism, 25–58.
4 Seshadri, HumAnimal, 11.
5 Wynter, “Unsettling.”
6 Adorno, Critical Models, 192.
7 Rothberg, Multidirectional, 202.
8 Foucault, History of Sexuality; Preciado, Testo Junkie.
9 Agamben, Homo Sacer; Remnants; Esposito, Bíos.
10 Weheliye, Habeas Viscus.
11 Stoler, Race; Mbembe, On the Postcolony.
12 Smith, Against Ecological Sovereignty.
13 Shukin, Animal Capital; Wolfe, Before the Law.
14 Haraway, When Species Meet, 3.
15 Adorno, Critical Models, 191.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid., 192.
19 Ibid., 192–93.
20 Ibid., 193.
21 Horkeimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment.
22 Adorno, Critical Models, 197.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid., 198.
25 Rothberg, Traumatic Memory, 45.
26 Ibid., 49.
27 Massumi, What Animals Teach Us, 6.
28 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 13–17.
29 Adorno, Critical Models, 245.
30 Ibid., 246.
31 This rhymes with Mel Y. Chen’s concept of the ‘animacy scale’ in Animacies.
32 This concept of affect is taken from Spinoza’s Ethics.
33 See especially the “Queer Inhumanisms” special issue of GLQ edited by Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen.
34 Grosz, “Feminism,” 151.
35 Barad, Meeting, 74.
36 Ibid.; Coole and Frost, New Materialisms.
37 Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics, 3.
38 Foucault, History of Sexuality, 137.
39 Hence Esposito’s focus in Bíos on immunity which allows him to think of Nazi politics, his major focus, as a kind of auto-immune disorder in the body politic.
40 Agamben, Remnants.
41 Rothberg, Multidirectional, 62.
42 Ibid., 115.
43 Singh, Unthinking Mastery, 145.
44 Rothberg, Multidirectional, 81.
45 Said, Culture and Imperialism.
46 Rothberg, Multidirectional, 49.
47 Butler, Bodies; Weheliye, Habeas Viscus.
48 Adorno, Minima Moralia, 105.
49 Wynter, “Unsettling.”
50 Ibid., 260–61.
51 I am referring here to the affect theory of Spinoza as developed in Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual, and to Brennan’s Transmission of Affect.
52 Coulthard, Red Skin White Masks, 13.
53 Young, Haunting Capital.
54 Rothberg, Multidirectional, 14.
55 Freire, Pedagogy, 75.
56 Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2.
57 See Snaza, “Bewildering Education.”
58 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, vii.
59 Massumi, What Animals Teach Us, 76.
60 See Halberstam, Queer Art of Failure.
61 I am inspired here by Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology, and her asking after the ‘conditions of arrival’ of both humans and nonhuman objects.
62 Coole and Frost, New Materialisms, 25.
63 Indeed, I have versions of this conversation with my four-year-old regularly.
64 On the problem with innocence, see Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto.”
65 Haraway, When Species Meet, 81.
66 This last sentence is highly informed by Singh’s Unthinking Mastery.
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Nathan Snaza teaches English literature and contemporary theory at the University of Richmond. E-mail: [email protected].