{"product_id":"nothing-wanting-asexuality-and-the-matter-of-absence-9781517916435","title":"Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions--beyond identity and beyond the human\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We've all seen the page that states \"this page intentionally left blank\" or heard an authority figure declare \"nothing to see here, folks,\" and yet the so-called blank page has writing on it, and folks definitely have something to see. From the entry point of these and other paradoxical declarations of absence, KJ Cerankowski applies the aesthetics of asexuality to theorize silences, nothings, and emptiness. In the process, he explores new ways of making meaning out of the supposedly meaningless. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Throughout this investigation into absences, Cerankowski moves intuitively and idiosyncratically, taking readers along a series of waypoints that include \u003ci\u003eBorder, \u003c\/i\u003ethe acclaimed horror film about a customs officer who can smell fear; Jenny Hval's discomfiting novel \u003ci\u003eParadise Rot; \u003c\/i\u003eand disabled artist Finnegan Shannon's iconic benches. Experimental in form as well as content, \u003ci\u003eNothing Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative and mischievous reading experience that plays with structural elements like redaction, erasure, supertext, and repetition. With a deeply anticapitalist, anticolonial motivating ideology, it pushes to the limits of language, subverting commonplace notions of books, knowledge, and what it is to be human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Moving beyond identity and representation, \u003ci\u003eNothing Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e is playful, fascinating, and provocative as it conceives asexuality as additive and expansive rather than lacking. As it reveals the vibrant lifeworlds that hum in silences and thrum in stillnesses, \u003ci\u003eNothing Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e pivots from the imposition of wanting nothing to the craving of nothing wanting: satisfied, yet always yearning for more worlds of thriving--for everything and everyone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kj Cerankowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.60w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517916435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e KJ Cerankowski is author of \u003ci\u003eSuture: Trauma and Trans Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of two editions of \u003ci\u003eAsexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e. He is associate professor of comparative American studies and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Oberlin College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kj Cerankowski \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659133108381,"sku":"9781517916435","price":37.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_cdd8a875-f2a4-4c24-b7b5-23600a970127.jpg?v=1771351091","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/nothing-wanting-asexuality-and-the-matter-of-absence-9781517916435","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}