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which only a relative handful of species have crossed
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or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good Yet in a compelling introductionIn Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness.