Eric A. Stanley’s Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable delves into the spectacle and disappearance that racialized anti-trans/queer violence produces. Stanley’s method is archival. By putting surveillance tapes, letters, films, and direct actions side by side, they trace structuring logics of modernity while emphasizing trans/queer practices that have and do escape such violent worlds. While this book underscores violence, hurt, and loss, it is more accurate to classify it as a text that tenaciously holds onto the possibility of livable worlds otherwise.
Articles by Kerry Keith
Kerry Keith is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication and Program in Critical Gender Studies at UC San Diego. She is a co-organizer of the Nature, Space, Politics faculty and graduate student working group, a founding member of the UCSD Underground Scholars chapter, and a student thinking through incarceration, environmental (in)justice, and toxicity. She researches infrastructural decay in California prisons to identify material forms of toxicity evident in this system, and as a means to contribute to the call for its abolition.