Preface vii
1. Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 1
2. The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 10
3. A caveat about the "primacy of economy" 38
4. Sexual dispossessions 44
5. (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 55
6. The sociality of self-poietics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 64
7. Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition 75
8. Relationality as self-dispossession 92
9. Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 97
10. Responsiveness as responsibility 104
11. Ex-propriating the performative 126
12. Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 131
13. The political promise of the performative 140
14. The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances 149
15. Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 158
16. Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 164
17. Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 173
18. The political affects of plural performativity 176
19. Conundrums of solidarity 184
20. The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 188
21. Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure 193
Notes 198
Index 205