{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Absence and asexuality.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/dfafdc4f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3433,"description":"We’ve 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—and ultimately explores new ways of making meaning out of the supposedly meaningless. Here, Cerankowski is joined in conversation with Hil Malatino and Ianna Hawkins Owen.KJ Cerankowski is associate professor of comparative American studies and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Oberlin College. Cerankowski is author of Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence and Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming and coeditor of two editions of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Hil Malatino is associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State and a senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute. Malatino is author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad and Trans Care.Ianna Hawkins Owen is an advanced assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley.EPISODE REFERENCES:Ross GayIntimacies / Leo Bersani and Adam PhillipsDepression: A Public Feeling / Ann CvetkovichEntangled Life / Merlin Sheldrake“Public Universal Friend,” hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, Throughline podcastReed EricksonEve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading” (book chapter, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction)Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes and In the WakeRenée GreenParadise Rot / Jenny HvalLauren BerlantAgnes MartinYayoi Kusama“Agnes Martin’s Homework” / The Brooklyn RailPRAISE FOR THE BOOK:\"Beautifully written, politically imaginative, and intellectually nuanced, Nothing Wanting uncovers an entirely new horizon for asexual scholarship and trans...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}