i've wanted to read this book since i first saw it in the lit crit section downstairs at city lights. when i first saw it i wanted to be angry at its apparent criticism of intersectionality. this was after using the term to attempt to describe the kind of precarity the NJ4 were vulnerable to, and the sentiment made organizing around their case particularly popular in lots of the radical queer communities i was in. the predictable repetition of state violence needed to be stopped, we needed to get them out of jail. i mean, haven't we explored the catachresis of propaganda? is these ideas we need to revisit given the intensity of genocide? do we need to remind ourselves of the elusiveness of nomination when intervention still appears permanently estranged from the discursive channels of political power? lauren berlant names the badness of object desires close to the release of this argument against antinormativity (itself a not very useful distillation or essence-reification of the multiple worlding operations in contestation within "queer" (god, what an odd sentence...)) but with a lot more style. and substance? everything is dangerously abstract so as to provide fodder for the worst possible arguments. wiegman's voice drove me crazy the whole time and at no moment was i assured of the motive here. ack!