Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have greatly influenced the development of present-day understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis, aesthetics, education and human rights.

ADAM BRYX is an Associate Instructor and doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, USA
JOSEPH FITZPATRICK is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities, USA
GARY GENOSKO is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
ANNA KLOSOWSKA is Associate Professor of French at Miami University, Ohio, USA
GEORGE LIGHT currently works in the education industry and presents a blues music show on community radio in Mississippi, USA
DONOVAN SHERMAN is an Associate Instructor and doctoral student in the Joint Program in Drama and Theatre at University of California, Irvine and University of California, San Diego, USA

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Subjective Affects: Surveying with Husserl, Shakespeare, and Derrida into the Twenty-First Century; B.Reynolds (with additional dialogue by B.Reynolds and G.Light) The Masochistic Quest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Deleuze and Guattari to Transversal Poetics with(out) Baudrillard; A.Bryx and B.Reynolds The Cartographic Impulse: Certeau's Transversality, Foucault's Panoptic Discourse, Cusa's Empiricism, and Google's New World; J.Fitzpatrick and B.Reynolds Fugitive Rehearsals: The Ferality of Kaspar Hauser, Playground Performances, and the Transversality of Children; B.Reynolds and D.Sherman Civilizing Subjects, or Not: Montaigne's Guide to Modernity, Agamben's Exception, and Human Rights after Derrida; A.KLosowska and B.Reynolds Afterword: Subjects Matter; G.Genosko Glossary of Transversal Terms Notes on Collaborators Index