Single: Arguments for the uncoupled

Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-226

  Cobb, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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1. The chapter epigraph of Charles Baudelaire's "Paysage" ("Landscape") is taken from The Flowers of Evil, ed. and trans. James McGowan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 166-67.
2. The epigraph of Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse is taken from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 1.
3. See Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia," in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 14 (1914-1916), ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1961), 239-58.
4. Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City (New York: Time Warner Books, 2001), ix.
5. See "Weddings: Vows, Candace Bushnell, Charles Askegard," New York Times, July 7, 2002, www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/style/weddingsvows-candace-bushnell-charles-askegard.html.
6. Bushnell, Sex and the City, 243.
7. Bridget Jones's Diary, dir. Sharon Maguire, 2001.
8. Bella M. DePaulo, Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007).
9. DePaulo writes, "T[he] stigmatizing of people who are single-whether divorced, widowed, or ever single-is the twentiethcentury problem with no name" (2). I'd say the problem goes back further, but I heartily agree with the sentiment.
10. Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash, Kuk Harrel, and Beyoncé Knowles, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," on the album I Am Sasha Fierce (Columbia, 2008).
11. For an example of this important line of inquiry, see Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
12. Thomas Dumm, Loneliness as a Way of Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 26.
13. David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney, The Lonely Crowd, Revised Edition: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
14. I'm taking the term stranger-intimacy from Georg Simmel via Mark Seltzer, Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture (New York: Routledge, 1997), esp. 41-45.
15. Eric Oakley, "David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd," Yahoo Associated Content, November 16, 2005, www.associatedcontent.com/article/13832/david_riesman_the_lonely_crowd_pg2.html?cat=38.
16. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995, 2004), 91.
17. Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001);
18. John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick, Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (New York: Norton, 2009).
19. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (New York: New Directions, 1962), 1, 179.
20. Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th ed., vol. 1, ed. Nina Bayn et al. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), 1790.
21. Cacioppo and Patrick, Loneliness, 5.
22. See my God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
23. Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic (New York: Pantheon, 2003), 26. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
24. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951; repr., San Diego: Harcourt, 1976), 478. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
25. Thoreau, Walden, 1789.
26. See all of Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
27. DePaulo, Singled Out, 2.
28. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927; repr., New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 18.
29. Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), 10.
30. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 72.
31. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), 139.
32. I'm thinking of figures of loneliness and problematic coupling in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" and "A Poem Is Being Written," from Tendencies (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993);
33. Leo Bersani, Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995);
34. Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). Sedgwick's focus on the ways that the witnessing of masturbatory desire can teach us much about modern sexual identities is, typically, excellent. I'd like to resist, however, a reliance on sexual desire in my preliminary investigations of loneliness.
35. Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, and Subjectivity (London: British Film Institute, 2004), 67.
36. Sedgwick, "Jane Austen," 129.
37. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 223.
38. Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," in Illuminations, 193.
39. Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 23.
40. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 47.
41. Sigmund Freud, "On Narcissism," in Strachey, Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, vol. 14, trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1961), 85.
42. Thanks to Debra Fried for turning this phrase for me during a lecture at Cornell University, November 2009.
43. Anne Carson, "Every Exit Is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)," in Decreation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 20.
44. Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, 474. The epigraph to Romeo and Juliet is from act 5, scene 3, line 169.
45. The epigraph to Sappho is from fragment 42, in If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, trans. Anne Carson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
46. The interviews appended as extras to the DVD edition of the film recount this story of the film and the writer's postrelease success. See Love Story (dir. Arthur Hiller, 1970; DVD, 2001).
47. Melinda Henneberger, "Author of 'Love Story' Disputes a Gore Story," New York Times, December 14, 1997, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EED9163FF937A25751C1A961958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/G/Gore,%20Tipper.
48. The discussions of American deathbed sentimentality are long and varied, especially those concerning Uncle Tom's Cabin. See, for instance, Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960; repr., New York: Avon, 1992);
49. Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985);
50. Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977; repr., New York: Avon, 1978);
51. Nancy Armstrong, "Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism," Yale Journal of Criticism 7, no. 2 (1994): 1-24;
52. Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003);
53. Lauren Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
54. Georg Simmel, "The Isolated Individual and the Dyad," in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, ed. and trans. Kurt H. Wolff (London: Free Press of Glencoe, 1950), 124.
55. Plato, The Symposium, ed. and trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989), 25 (189E). Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
56. See Leo Bersani's chapter "Sociality and Sexuality," in his Is the Rectum a Grave and Other Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 117-19.
57. I'm referring to Joy Division's iconic song "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (prod. Martin Hannett and Joy Division, 1980).
58. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, ed. and trans. James Strachey (New York: W.W. Norton, 1961), 10-11. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
59. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925; repr., San Diego: Harcourt, 1981), 126-27. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
60. Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (New York: Vintage, 1998), 70. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
61. Carson uses this poem at the beginning of the romance section of Autobiography of Red, 22.
62. From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1955), no. 1748.
63. Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Battlefield," Lyrics By Mark Chapman and Holly Knight.
64. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 20. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
65. The epigraph is from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1955), no. 360.
66. See my God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence (New York: NYU Press, 2006).
67. Quoted in Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song (New York: Vintage International, 1979), 568-69.
68. Wallace Stegner, Mormon Country (1942; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 171.
69. Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872; repr., New York: Penguin, 1971), 139-40.
70. "Republican Party Platform of 1856," from National Party Platforms, rev. ed., vol. 1, 1840-1956, comp. Donald Bruce Johnson (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 27-28, www.columbia.edu/itc/history/foner/civil_war/linked_documents/republican_platform.html.
71. Fanny Stenhouse and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tell It All: A Woman's Life in Polygamy (1875; repr., Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2003), vi.
72. Frances E. Willard, Introduction to The Women of Mormonism: Or the Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims Themselves, ed. Jennie Anderson Froiseth (Detroit, MI: C. G. G. Paine, 1886), i.
73. Mailer, Executioner's Song, 572-73.
74. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law (1881; repr., New York: Barnes and Noble, 2004), 216.
75. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, introd. Ernest Mandel, trans. Ben Fowkes (1859; repr., New York: Vintage, 1976), 164-65.
76. See Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New Internationalism, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994).
77. Utah State Legislature, Utah Code, 2008, title 75, Utah Uniform Probate Code, chapter 2, Intestate Succession and Wills, http://le.utah. gov/~code/TITLE75/htm/75_02004.htm, accessed January 29, 2008.
78. To assert as much is almost axiomatic. For a fascinating read on the rise of common law, and the problems of dividing and representing power and legal force, see Bradin Cormack, A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
79. If only I had found the following article before I wrote this section and published a version: William R. Handley, "Plural Marriage, Gay Marriage, and the Subversion of the 'Good Order,'" Discourse 26, no. 3 (2004): 85-109.
80. Quoted in 137 U.S. 682, 682.
81. Quoted in 137 U.S. 682, 686.
82. 137 U.S. 682, 685.
83. 137 U.S. 682, 685.
84. 137 U.S. 682, 687.
85. U.S. 682, 689.
86. U.S. 682, 685.
87. See all of Gayle S. Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 3-44.
88. The mission statement of the conservative (and primarily evangelical) Family Research Council has become emphatic about making sure that we understand the "true" meaning of family: "Properly Understood, 'families' are formed only by ties of blood, marriage, or adoption, and 'marriage' is a union of one man and one woman." www.frc.org/marriage-family, accessed January 2, 2008.
89. U.S. 145, 165.
90. Marx, Capital, 163.
91. Marx, Capital, 165.
92. Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (New York: Touchstone, 1993), 82.
93. For a critique of futurity I'm not fully comfortable with, but which is astonishingly productive of all sorts of great discussions, see Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).
94. "My Wedding Vows: Non-Denomination Wedding Vows," n.d., www. myweddingvows.com/traditional-wedding-vows/non-denominationwedding-vows, accessed February 1, 2008.
95. Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 60.
96. Berlant, Queen of America, 60.
97. Marx, Capital, 167.
98. The chapter epigraphs are from William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1935; repr., New York: Vintage, 1990), 81
99. Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (New York: Vintage, 1998), 130.
100. I've learned a great deal about the usefulness of delay from Kathryn Bond Stockton. See her The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
101. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1947; repr., New York: Vintage, 1990), 576.
102. Ralph Ellison, "Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity," in Shadow and Act (1953; repr., New York: Vintage, 1972), 24.
103. Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 67.
104. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 614. All subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
105. See Robert Stepto, From behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979);
106. Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987);
107. Houston A. Baker Jr., Blues Ideology and Afro-American Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
108. Spillers, Black, White, 67.
109. Etienne Balibar, "Racism as Universalism," in Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx, trans. James Swenson (New York: Routledge, 1994), 200; emphasis in original.
110. Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 395.
111. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Mussumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 25.
112. U.S. 479, at 485, 486.
113. For a helpful history of these two cases, see David A. J. Richards, The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009).
114. Lauren Berlant, "The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics," in Left Legalism/Left Critique, ed. Wendy Brown and Janet Halley (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), 113.
115. Leo Bersani, Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 165-66.
116. Benjamin, "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939).
117. The Arcades Project, ed. and trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1999), 19.
118. Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, 2002), 171.
119. Benjamin, "Paris," 14.
120. Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn (New York: Picador, 1972), 128.
121. Benjamin, "Paris," 885.
122. Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, "Sex in Public," Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter 1998): 555.
123. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 52.
124. Arendt, Human Condition, 26.
125. Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 108.
126. Quoted in Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt, trans. Ross Guberman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 23.
127. Ellison, "Twentieth-Century Fiction," 28.
128. Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cereno (1853; repr., London: Hesperus Classics, 2007), 35. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
129. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 48.
130. Hardt and Negri, Empire, 203-4; emphasis in original.
131. Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), 381.
132. Gilles Deleuze, "Bartleby, the Formula," in Essays Critical and Clinical trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (New York: Verso, 1989), 83.
133. I'm obliquely referring to Dan McCall's lament about the "Bartleby Industry" in his The Silence of Bartleby (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
134. I can only imagine McCall's irritation at reading Branka Arsić's Passive Constitutions or 71/2 Times Bartleby (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
135. See Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
136. Deleuze, "Bartleby, the Formula," 75;
137. Arsić, Passive Constitutions, 109-31.
138. See Arsić, Passive Constitutions, 109-31.
139. Deleuze, "Bartleby, the Formula," 75.
140. Sontag, Under the Sign, 128.
141. Arendt, Human Condition, 325.
142. Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (New York: Vintage, 1998), 4.
143. Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1955), no. 587.
144. The chapter epigraphs are from Georgia O'Keeffe, a quotation attached to the wall of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM;
145. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (New York: Penguin, 1972), 93-94;
146. Marianne Moore, "People's Surroundings" (1935).
147. Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (New York: Penguin Classics, 1994), 55-58.
148. For two points of reference, if you can't resist Morrissey, see Mark Simpson's love-letter biography, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan (New York: Touchstone, 2003).
149. Johnny Rogan's Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance (London: Omnibus Press, 1993).
150. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (1971; repr., San Diego: Harcourt, 1977), 6.
151. National Park Service, "Zion: Park Visitation Statistics," www.nps.gov/zion/parkmgmt/park-visitation-statistics.htm
152. www.nps.gov/archive/care/visit.htm, both accessed November 5, 2008.
153. "31 Places to Go This Summer," New York Times, June 1, 2008, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D9143BF932A35755 C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2, accessed November 5, 2008.
154. Many of the historical descriptions paraphrase the basic details available on the National Park Service website for Capitol Reef, "Capitol Reef: History and Culture," January 10, 2007, www.nps.gov/care/historyculture/index.htm. Other details were provided by my own travel and research on the park.
155. Two helpful histories of the national park's development are Linda Flint McClelland, Building the National Park: Historic Landscape Design and Construction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
156. Ethan Carr, Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
157. "31 Places to Go This Summer," New York Times, June 1, 2008, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D9143BF932A35755C 0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2.
158. Frederick Law Olmstead Jr., "The Distinction between National Parks and National Forests," Landscape Architecture 6, no. 3 (1916): 115-16.
159. This passage is also quoted in McClelland, Building the National Park, 10-11.
160. Andrew Jackson Downing, "A Visit to Montgomery Place," 1847
161. quoted in McClelland, Building the National Park, 17.
162. Mark Stoll, "Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea," Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 238.
163. Quoted in Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 144.
164. Terry Tempest Williams, "Prayer Flags in the Desert," in With a Measure of Grace: The Story of Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, by Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle with Lavinia Spalding (Santa Fe, NM: Provecho Press, 2004), 9.
165. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), xii.
166. Sundance Resort, "Our Story," n.d., www.sundanceresort.com/about/story.html, accessed April 7, 2009.
167. National Park Service, Zion National Park Guide, Brochure, on file with author.
168. Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, The National Parks: America's Best Idea (New York: Knopf, 2009), xxii; emphasis in original.
169. Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (1943; repr., San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2005), 309.
170. Abbey, Desert Solitaire, x.
171. Quoted in Frances Ferguson, Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (New York: Routledge, 1992), 3.
172. The quotation, as Ferguson explains, comes from Kant's "Deduction of Judgments and Taste" (sec. 42) in Critique of Judgment, trans. J. H. Bernard (New York: Hafner, 1951).
173. See all of Ferguson, Solitude and the Sublime.
174. Of course, many biographies of O'Keeffe can be consulted. O'Keeffe penned her own, Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Viking Press, 1976).
175. Laurie Lisle's Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986) is a good starting place.
176. Martin's own writings provide scholars with much direction: Agnes Martin, Writings, ed. Dieter Schwarz (Winterthur: Kuntsmuseum, 1992).
177. Some great critical sources are Ann C. Chave, Agnes Martin: On and off the Grid (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2004);
178. Agnes Martin, ed. Barbara Haskell (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992);
179. Gavin Butt, "How New York Queered the Idea of Modern Art," in Varieties of Modernism, ed. Paul Wood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
180. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum wall quotations; also in O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe, unpaginated.
181. See also Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs, ed. Alexandra Arrowsmith and Thomas West (New York: Callaway Editions, 1992).
182. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Celebrating Ten Years 1997-2007 (New York: Abrams, 2007), 14.
183. Terry Castle, "Travels with My Mom," London Review of Books, August 16, 2007, www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n16/terry-castle/travels-with-my-mom.
184. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 232.
185. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum wall quotations; also in O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe, unpaginated.
186. Lynes emphasizes that O'Keeffe was unassisted here as she describes the sometimes-assisted work that she undertook late in her long life (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 62).
187. Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion," in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 21 (1927-1931), ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: Vintage, 2001), 25.
188. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 222-23.
189. Miriam Hansen, "Benjamin's Aura," Critical Inquiry 34 (Winter 2008): 351.
190. Georg Simmel, Philosophy of Money, trans. Kaethe Mengelberg, Tom Bottomore, and David Frisby, 2nd ed. (1900/1907; repr., London, 2004), 473
191. quoted in Hansen, "Benjamin's Aura," 353.
192. Ferguson's Solitude and the Sublime has an excellent discussion of this feature in Kant, especially on 27.
193. See all of Hansen, "Benjamin's Aura."
194. Benjamin, "Work of Art," 223.
195. Harwood Museum, "Agnes Martin Gallery," n.d., www.harwoodmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/59, accessed August 25, 2010.
196. Castle, "Travels with My Mom."
197. Bert Winther-Tamaki, "The Asian Dimension of Postwar Abstract Art: Calligraphy and Metaphysics," in The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, ed. Alexandra Munroe (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2009), 145.
198. Alexandra Munroe, "Art of Perceptual Experience: Pure Abstraction and Ecstatic Minimalism," in Munroe, Third Mind, 291.
199. Richard Tuttle, "What Does One Look at in an Agnes Martin Painting? Nine Musings on the Occasion of Her Ninetieth Birthday," American Art 16 (Autumn 2002): 92.
200. Ned Rifkin, "Agnes Martin-The Music of the Spheres," in Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond, ed. Ned Rifkin (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001), 25.
201. Martin, Writings, 37.
202. Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, Intimacies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 122.
203. Martin, Writings, bilingual ed. (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005), 37-38.
204. For an interesting discussion of distance and "dissident subjectivity," see David R. Jarraway, Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003).
205. Rosalind E. Krauss, "Grids," October 9 (Summer 1979): 54.
206. Plato, The Symposium, introd. and trans. Christopher Gill (New York: Penguin Classics, 1999), 23.
207. Leo Bersani, "The Will to Know," in Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 159.
208. Rei Terada, Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 204.
209. Martin, Writings, 40.
210. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927; repr., San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 208-9. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
211. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925; repr., San Diego: Harcourt, 1981), 130. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.
212. Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (New York: Vintage, 1998), 70. Subsequent citations to this work are to this edition and are given parenthetically in the text.