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How can forgetting be constitutive of life and action? How can rethinking the relationship between forgetting, unforgetting, and melancholia produce alternative temporalities? I want to ask how queer femme melancholia as both forgetting and unforgetting can offer a politics and ethics of temporality, and an untimely reckoning with sexuality and gender.

Reflecting on the far-reaching changes the coronavirus has brought about in all spheres of life, this article takes an anthropological and phenomenological perspective on the new 'normals' of the pandemic, specifically with regards to bodily and linguistic practices. By placing phenomenologists such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty in conversation with anthropologists like Mauss, the article illuminates the ways in which the disruption posed by the pandemic has fundamentally altered our relation to others, our bodies, and ourselves. The article then moves to destabilize the dichotomy of 'ordinary' and 'exception' by analyzing the militarization of language; in showing its limitations in grappling with a world in pandemic, the article concludes with a call for novel forms of language that de-emphasize adversariality and instead promote the empathy and memory that the pandemic demands. Keywords: phenomenology, bodies, bodily techniques, space, language, Coronavirus, pandemic

"How is it that Aboriginality seems to appear and disappear in public culture? One of the key ways in which this happens is through some strange and repetitive patterns of forgetting and remembering: forgetting dispossession and then recalling it much later, forgetting nuclear testing on indigenous lands and then uncovering that history; forgetting the removal of indigenous children and then remembering their stories. This cycle is both dishonest and destructive. Writing against these tendencies, this book is about the politics of memory. It attempts to remember the continuity of the historical presence of Aboriginality and to remembering how that presence has been forgotten"--Provided by publisher

This essay addresses how the long process of the "Aryanisation" of Christian Europe in which it forgot its own provenance is conveyed in the history of the family tree. It traces the image of the family tree as it was extracted from the realm of Hebrew biblical narrative, became the means of representing Indo-European linguistic differentiation and then, finally, Aryan racial superiority and separation from the (conjured) figure of the Semite. The family tree exemplifies a more generalisable pattern of the forgetfulness of Christianity's debts to other modalities, ontologies, and narratives in the quest to establish itself as pure, singular, monolingual, and monochrome. The Tree of Jesse serves as a particular and important example of the patrilineal and fraternal affiliations and disaffiliations in the trajectory of the genealogy of the family tree, motivated by desires to support claims to pedigree and patrimony, reversed from a model of descent to one of ascent with the European "Aryans."