· 2012
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
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Mel Y. Chen's "Animacies" introduces the concept of animacy—how qualities like agency, mobility, and liveness are attributed to matter—to analyze the racialized and queer politics of what is deemed insensate, immobile, or deathly.
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