ABSTRACT
To write this chapter, I took the word “transpositions” for a series of walks through a number of readings, experiences, and streets = the activity of the topic: a mapping through the senses with which one emerges as bodily. To transpose is an act of changing something into another form, or to transfer to a different place or context: transmutations but also translations, alterations in modes of expression. “Transposes” can be perversions or deviations, misdirections that discompose order and arrangement. Working through these etymologies of “transpositions,” I want to fuse the workings of sex transitions (particularly male-to-female) with forces and excitations of habitat, location, and neighborhood, by which I mean that, for me, transpositions refer to the physical sensation of change, of unprecedented corporeal and sensorial states constituted through transsexual transitions as they are shaped by spatial and environmental orientations. Transpositions are structurally sensuous—sensation is the basic unit of emergence—modalities of simultaneously changing, being, and positioning.
