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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction On the Side: Allocations of Attention in the Theoretical Moment -- Part I chronologies aside -- Chapter 1 Writing the History of Homophobia -- Chapter 2 Late Exercises in Minimal Affirmatives -- Chapter 3 Comparative Noncontemporaneities: C. L. R. James and Ernst Bloch -- Chapter 4 On Suicide, and Other Forms of Social Extinguishment -- Part II approaches aside -- Chapter 5 What Is Historical Poetics? -- Chapter 6 The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization -- Chapter 7 Before Racial Construction -- Chapter 8 Archive Favor: African American Literature before and aft er Theory -- Chapter 9 What Cinema Wasn't: Animating Film Theory's Double Blind Spot -- Part III figures aside -- Chapter 10 Hyperbolic Discounting and Intertemporal Bargaining -- Chapter 11 The Primacy of Sensation: Psychophysics, Phenomenology, Whitehead -- Chapter 12 Reading the Social: Erving Goff man and Sexuality Studies -- Chapter 13 Our I. A. Richards Moment: The Machine and Its Adjustments -- Chapter 14 Needing to Know (:) Theory / Afterwords -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better served worrying less about "what's next?" and more about "what else?" Instead of looking for the next big thing, the fourteen prominent thinkers in this volume take up lines of thought lost or overlooked during theory's canonization. They demonstrate that intellectual progress need not depend on the discovery of a new theorist or theory. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics-aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, globalization, phenomenology, poetics, political and postcolonial theory, race and identity, queer theory, and sociological reading practices-the contributors show that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. In their turn away from the radically new, these essays reveal that what's fallen aside still surprises.Contributors. Ian Balfour, Karen Beckman, Pheng Cheah, Frances Ferguson, William Flesch, Anne-Lise François, Mark B. N. Hansen, Simon Jarvis, Heather Love, Natalie Melas, Jason Potts, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jordan Alexander Stein, Daniel Stout, Irene Tucker
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