6.0 On the Uses of Absence

Can we speak of a turn of absence? Across the contemporary academic conjuncture, whether in queer theory, trans studies, Black studies, Eastern European studies, or literary studies, enduring scholarly investments in re-presenting and re-presencing the absented body have become supplemented by an affirmative interest in staying with absence as such. This scholarship allocates absence at the heart of myriad resistances against exploitation, approporiation, undoing, and normativity. As an object of study, a critical figure, and theoretical tool, absence is given a shape, meaning, form; it is put in writing, where it has a function, a flavour, and a politics. Absence, in other words, fails every time to be purely nothing. How, then, to think the contradiction and the provocation of a contemporary aesthetics of absence?

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