An examination of the poetics and politics of punctuation and how seemingly neutral markers affect the construction of subjects, identities, and ideas.

Acknowledgments ix
For(e)thought: Pre/Script: gesturestyluspunctum 1
1. Smutty Daubings 27
2. Belaboring the Point . . . 62
3. Hyphen-Nations 85
4. "Queer" Quotation Marks 108
5. Sem;erot;cs ; Colon:zat:ons : Exclamat!ons ! 134
Post\Script: Cyberpunktuations? 156
Notes 169
Bibliography 191
Index 207