Author: Trevor Owen Jones File Type: pdf I have been forced to become . . . a librarian. ~ Georges Bataille The Non-Library is a non-standard expression for life that is lived without mediation from words, images, or even ideas. While a thing called the Library continues to terrorize humanity even as it enters its last stages as a consequence of cataclysmic climate change and late capitalism, the Non-Library is a strictly performative, ahistorical immanence that suspends the Librarys insistent calls to categorization, representation, and reification. Of course, to describe or circumscribe such ineffability has its limits, but it also has its thresholds to cross with commentary on Derridas Archive Fever, a deconstruction of Fichte, a parabiographical meditation on librarianship, and a vamping on the possible Non-Virgil, The Non-Library gently proposes a negative capability in liminal spaces in order to best escape and resist the Librarys stranglehold on human knowledge and its requisite social imaginations. Let us now descend into the blind world . . . . ~Dante Building on the non-standard thought of Francois Laruelles non-philosophy, while not beholden to it, The Non-Library attempts to leave the discourse of the university behind and uses its citations of Badiou, Borges, Bataille, and Dante instead to construct a philo-fiction more akin to the immanence of music and its many expressions rather than Philosophys demand that all questions be eventually answered, that the Real is ultimately thinkable, or that all of Life might possibly be contained in the Library.**

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Author: Simon Barton File Type: pdf This volume is intended as a commemoration of the career of Richard Fletcher and his remarkable contribution to our understanding of the medieval world. The seventeen papers included here, written by some of the leading scholars of this period, reflect the three main areas of Fletchers scholarly endeavours Church and society in medieval Spain Christian-Muslim relations, both in the Iberian peninsula and further afield and, the history of the post-Roman world, with particular reference to the conversion of Europe. The contributors include James Campbell, Roger Collins, Judith McClure, Edward James, Roger Wright, Ann Christys, Bernard F. Reilly, Christopher Tyerman, Simon Barton, John Williams, James DEmilio, Emma Falque, Peter Linehan, Peter Biller, Ian Michael, Esther Pascua, John Edwards, and, Ian Wood.About the AuthorSimon Barton, DPhil. (1991) in History, University of York, is Professor of Spanish History at the University of Exeter. He has published extensively on the history of medieval Spain, including The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile (Cambridge UP, 1997) and (with Richard Fletcher) The World of El Cid (Manchester UP 2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St Johns College, Cambridge, and the author of numerous works on various aspects of the history of medieval Spain. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid).

Author: Aaron Devor File Type: pdf In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans mens own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research. **Review I often say that I decided to pursue a gender transition despite what I read in the books that were available to mea handful of harsh, challenge-filled biographies about trailblazing transgender pioneers. With the notable exception, that is, of the trans mans bibleDevors big red hardcover that still sits, 20 years later, prominently on my bookshelf. FTM was hot off the presses right when I needed it most. Devorgently, insightfully, starkly, and respectfullyput forth a beautifully written illustration of how life could be for me, made evident by those who bravely chose to share their lives for this book. I like to think this book provided me with the how-to for grabbing my amazing transgender life by the balls! Aidan Key, Speaker, author, and founder of the National Gender Odyssey Conference In this newedition ofFTM, Devor, who so brilliantly previously captured the remarkable stories of transsexual men, continues to illuminate the need for insight into the transsexual mans life experience.Years ago, as a transsexual man searching for a reflection of my experienceandguidance on myimpending journey, Ifound what I was seekingin the pages ofthis book. In this day of increasing trans visibility there still remains a lack of trans male images, historiesandexperiencesleading to a continued lack of visibility and opportunities formentorship,which Dr. Jamison Green so eloquentlystatesin hispointed new foreword. Perhaps the timehas comefor a more equitable representation of transsexual men in the movement for trans justice. Zander Keig, LCSW, featured in thedocumentaryZanderology and co-editor ofLetters for My Brothers Transitional Wisdom in RetrospectandManning Up Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves Review The book alternates specialized academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory. (Reviewing a previous edition) Choice, reviewing a previous edition or volume This is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is nonjudgmental, nonsensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity. (Reviewing a previous edition) Journal of Sex Research, reviewing a previous edition or volume Devors exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Devors compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals. (Reviewing a previous edition) Contemporary Sociology, reviewing a previous edition or volume Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves. (Reviewing a previous edition) Jamison James Green, reviewing a previous edition or volume A landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, reviewing a previous edition or volume