ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter revisits and connects some salient threads from the preceding chapters through a personal meditation on the chance events that interrupted their writing, looking specifically at epistemological and hermeneutic questions. In the context of our history, what is the value of knowledge for queer subjects, and what are its costs? What are the political implications of a queer strategy of suspending certainty by foregrounding contingency? Why might we profit from setting aside definite “lessons” in favor of “patterns” that hover on the boundary of chance?
