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Kim Q. Hall, "Queering Philosophy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

New Books in Philosophy

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HIV AIDS and the Epidemic of Signification

I think part of what philosophy does is to look also at the epidemic of signification. And how it is that some people are completely forgotten rendered ungrieveable and left to die made more precarious in some sense by those definitions. I'm going to ask you guys, are we talking about, and I carry that through to the question that Judith Butler asks about grieve ability. What are those lives that are worth living? How do we move between epidemics and pandemics but also how we think about when they're over?

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