Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index
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On the side: allocations of attention in the theoretical moment / Jason Potts and Daniel Stout -- Chronologies aside -- Writing the history of homophobia / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Late exercises in minimal affirmatives / Anne-Lise Franç̧ois -- Comparative noncontemporaneities: C. L. R. James and Ernst Bloch / Natalie Melas -- On suicide, and other forms of social extinguishment / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Approaches aside -- What is historical poetics? / Simon Jarvis -- The biopolitics of recognition: making female subjects of globalization / Pheng Cheah -- Before racial construction / Irene Tucker -- Archive favor: African American literature before and after theory / Jordan Alexander Stein -- What cinema wasn't: animating film theory's double blind spot / Karen Beckman -- Figures aside -- Hyperbolic discounting and intertemporal bargaining / William Flesch -- The primacy of sensation: psychophysics, phenomenology, whitehead / Mark B. N. Hansen -- Reading the social: Erving Goffman and sexuality studies / Heather Love -- I. A. Richards and the practice of style / Frances Ferguson -- Needing to know (:) theory afterwords / Ian Balfour