This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.

Note on Translations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice 13
2. On Captivation: A Remainder of the "Indistinction of Art and Nonart" (written with Julian Rohrhuber) 31
3. Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She 59
4. Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood 81
5. "I insist on the Christian dimension": On Foregiveness . . . and the Outside of the Human 107
6. American Studies in Japan, Japan in American Studies: Challenges of the Heterolingual Address 133
7. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method 151
8. Framing the Original: Toward a New Visibility of the Orient 169
Postscript. Intimations from a Scene of Capture 183
Index 187

Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Age of the World Target, also published by Duke University Press.