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minor cosmopolitan -- Preface -- The Passport -- Empty Objects -- Notes on the Representation of Time and Space -- El palito de la jaula del pájaro de la abuela -- Porosity and Planetarity -- When You Died, the City Died with You -- I Don't Feel Postcolonial When I Wake up Every Morning in Delhi (No One Here Does) -- Other Europes, Past and Future -- On Other Poleis -- The minor cosmopolitan weekend Remembered -- Film, Women's Work & -- Labour Organizing -- Feminist Internationalism -- Times are Changing, Minds are also Changing -- Surrealism's Peripheries (feat. Synchronic Constellation - Le Moulin Society and its Time curated by Huang Ya-Li et al.) -- Ambiguous Utopias -- Rest Home -- Of Voices, Noises & -- Colonial Traces -- Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities -- Bio-Archiving -- Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Cosmopolitricks -- CONSTELLATIONS -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements.

Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang's work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that had been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity. At the heart of Xiang's argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences. By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.

Abstract
The author introduces the concept of transdualism to critique dualism without relying on a dualistic model of critique, the modus operandi necessary for a critique against sexual dualism and hetero/cisnormativity. Transdualism offers an opportunity to dwell within that operation by staying below (not beyond) the "dualism," that is, below the logic of either/or. The essay will explore the notion of "transdualism" through the hexagram Tai of the Yi Jing, which is often used in medical contexts to illustrate the body-of-orifices of Huangdi Neijing or the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor. The author reads this body-of-orifices, which is primarily represented by its nine major bodily tunnels, with yinyang philosophy as gender/sex indeterminant and shows that the Inner Canon's yinyang body-of-orifices points to something more transgressive, which could unsettle from within the naturalism of gender and sexual dualism and the nature/culture as well as other dualistic divides that have informed contemporary critical rethinking of embodiment. By unpacking the hexagram Tai alongside Inner Canon's body-of-orifices. as well as contemporary feminist, queer, and transgender theorizations of the body and sexuality, this essay aims at rethinking the materio-discursive complexity of the body-of-orifices, which has been either dualistically separated into antagonisms between man and woman, sex and gender, body and discourse, yin and yang; or one-sidedly reduced to a function of "social construction," knowable only through language—or problematically lumped together in a gender-is-fluid postmodern "both-and," which supposedly overcomes the metaphysico-theological "either/or."

Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways in which they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang's work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that had been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity.

Can one be queer and coupled? Or is the logic of complementarity that subtends the couple fundamentally at odds with queer existence? In 1998 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner wrote that 'making a queer world has required the development of kinds of intimacy that bear no necessary relation to domestic space, to kinship, to the couple form, to property and to the nation'. Since then, however, we have witnessed the couple form move from the periphery to the center of queer politics, becoming the major vehicle through which gays and lesbians have achieved access to cultural and legal institutions as well as broader social acceptance. While before the late twentieth century same-sex relations circulated largely outside what Foucault called the 'monogamic and conjugal cell', today it seems even the most peripheral of sexualities have been absorbed under the couple's ever-expanding jurisdiction. Does the present moment require a more honest reckoning with the central role of the couple in queer politics and everyday life? Or do we need, now more than ever, to revitalize our commitment to the production of a sexual politics that would resist the ideology of the couple? This two-day symposium brings together some of the most significant voices in Anglo-American queer theory today to address the historical, cultural, and metaphysical force of the couple — and its often unquestioned status in queer life. THURSDAY – 9 JUNE 2016 10:30 Morning coffee 11:00 Introductions 11:15–13:00 Heather Love and Eng-Beng Lim on Commitment 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–16:15 Elizabeth Freeman and Bobby Benedicto on Reproduction 16:30–18:15 Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman and Peter Coviello on Devotion 18:15 Coffee break 19:00–21:15 Lee Edelman and Joseph Litvak on Estrangement preceded by an Intermezzo by the organizers 21:15 Reception sponsored by GLQ FRIDAY – 10 JUNE 2016 13:30 Welcome coffee 14:00–15:45 Michael Cobb and Petrus Liu on Openness 16:00–17:45 C. Riley Snorton and Rinaldo Walco on Arrangement 17:45 Coffee break 18:30–20:15 Laura Kipnis and ...