InThe Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human,Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united in their fascination with the animals, plants, and things with whom we share and compose our lives. Harris and Holman Jones pick up and follow bread-crumb trails of new materialist, posthumanist, affect, performance, and feminist theoretics as they explore contemporary life and world-making. They use queer theory to break open and go beyond reason, searching for ethical and artful ways of sustaining ourselves, our multi-species companions, and our planet.

Anne M. Harris is associate professor and principal research fellow at RMIT University, Australian Research Council future fellow, honorary research fellow at University of Nottingham, and adjunct professor at Monash University.



Stacy Holman Jones is professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University.

Introduction: Allness

Chapter 1: Affective Objects

Chapter 2: Queering the Archive

Chapter 3: Queer Object Time

Chapter 4: Queer Ecologies

Chapter 5: Queering Human-Animal Kinship

Conclusion: Becoming-Queer as Liberatory Disorientation