Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence

Advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human


We’ve all seen the page that states “this page intentionally left blank” or heard an authority figure declare “nothing to see here, folks,” and yet the so—called blank page has writing on it, and folks definitely have something to see. From the entry point of these and other paradoxical declarations of absence, KJ Cerankowski applies the aesthetics of asexuality to theorize silences, nothings, and emp...