unfinished academic pasta salad nobody asked for

Cassils Jean-Luc Nancy’s 1996 treatise Being Singular Plural suggests that “being is always ‘being with,’ that ‘I’ is not prior to ‘we,’ that existence is essentially co-existence.” Queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz, in The Sense of Brown (2020), draws on Nancy’s notion of being and selfhood as essentially relational to articulate a sense of “a collectivity [...]