ABSTRACT
Eve Sedgwick’s ‘Other Materials’ refers to a seminar that Sedgwick offered several times at the CUNY Graduate Center entitled “How to Do Things with Words and Other Materials.” According to its digitally archived syllabus, the seminar’s graduate students participated in an experimental seminar/studio workshop with each exploring different aspects of the complex relations among language, materiality, and visuality” via literary and non-literary objects, including those of their own creation. In his recent book-length evaluation of Sedgwick, art historian Jason Edwards cites last quoted line and notes that “Sedgwick’s writing pays particular attention to matters anal”. Finding that “she places in centre stage her own rear end,” Edwards zeroes in on how Sedgwick negotiated “a theoretical context in which ideas of ‘fecalisation’ as necessarily negative were commonplace among Kleinians”.
