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Preface : Of three-eyed fish and other ghostings -- Introduction : Why nuclear necropolitics today? -- Part 1. Nuclear subjectivities -- No apocalypse, not now : Derrida and the nuclear unconscious -- Nuclear colonialism -- Critical nuclear race theory -- The gender of nuclear subjectivities -- Interlude : Children of the nuclear age, with Simon J. Ortiz -- Part 2. Haunting from the future -- The afterlife of nuclear catastrophes -- Hiroshima's ghostly shadows -- Postnuclear madness and nuclear crypts -- Transspecies selves : intimacies, extimacies, animacies -- Coda: Postnuclear ecologies : language, body, and affect in Beckett's Happy Days.

Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab unpacks literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic process that ?writes culture," makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world, she pioneers a compelling approach to analyzing literary texts and their production of meaning, knowledge, and society.Schwab's interdisciplinary study draws on anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis to trace literature's profound impact on the cultural imaginar

Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis explores the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida (Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, and his later writing on autoimmunity, cruelty, war, and human rights) and Deleuze (A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus, and more). Each essay illuminates a specific aspect of Derrida's and Deleuze's perspectives on psychoanalysis: the human-animal boundary; the child's polymorphism; the face or mouth as constitutive of ethical responsibility toward others; the connections between pain and suffering and political resistance; the role of masoch

My self and my own : one and the same? / Etienne Balibar -- The future of nationalist appropriation / Pheng Cheah -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "The State" and "civil society" in the study of African politics / James G. Ferguson -- Mercantilism, federalism, and the market within reason : the people and the conceptual impossibility of racial Blackness / Lindon W. Barrett -- Divided origins and the arithmetic of ownership / Marilyn Strathern -- One two three : the psychic economy of multiplicty / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Languge of order(s) : Jenny Holzer in the public sphere / Alexander Gelley -- Ethnographies of the future : personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Gabriele Schwab -- (Un)masking the agent : distributed cognition in Stanislaw Lem's "The Mask" / N. Katherine Hayles