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acknowledgments First and foremost, I thank the late Helen Tartar for believing in this project and for seeing it through as a book with Fordham University Press. It is with immense regret that she is no longer around to see this book in print. She could have, actually, if only I had not been unwell for the whole of 2013, which left me unable to do much, hence delaying the delivery of the final manuscript. Helen’s warmth, kindness, patience, and generosity were such that she told me then not to worry about the book but to get well first, constantly sending me encouraging notes and what she called “positive energies.” I wish I could have sent her those energies in return when she needed them. With Helen’s passing, I have lost not only a great editor and mentor, but also a dear friend and guardian angel. At Fordham University Press, I am also grateful to Thomas Lay for all his editorial assistance, and Alex Giardino at the Modern Language Initiative for her meticulous copyediting. This book would not have been possible too without all the amazing teachers that I have had. I am therefore indebted to Ryan Bishop, Verena Andermatt Conley, Jonathan Culler, Werner Hamacher, Ian James, Dominick LaCapra, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, Frédéric Neyrat, John WP Phillips, Geoff Waite, and Samuel Weber. Dominick LaCapra and Timothy Murray also made possible a fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell in –, allowing me to finalize the manuscript, so I give further thanks to them. I owe gratitude too to my readers Philip Armstrong and Gregg Lambert, whose comments and suggestions only helped improve the manuscript. My project also benefited from conversations with Isabelle Alfandary, Marc Crépon, Priyanka Deshmukh, Évelyne Grossman, and François Noudelmann during several visits to Paris, and I XVI Acknowledgments extend my appreciation to them. I also had wonderful discussions on the book’s topic with Eduardo Cadava and Daniel Heller-Roazen at Princeton , and I thank them for that. I have shared ideas of this project with my students at Cornell, particularly those who attended my seminars “Friendship , Love, and Community,” “Thinking the Post-Secular,” and “Touching Literature”; I appreciate their taking interest in the reject. At Ithaca, I certainly do not forget Sue Besemer, Anh Ngoc Dủỏng, Củỏng Hủỏng, Qűôc Con Lủu, Eddy Quach, Helen Quach, and Khôn Vinh Quach, all of whom had made sure that I was eating and living well while writing. Parts of this project were also written in Singapore, and I am grateful to Lionel Wee and the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore for providing me office space during those times, which greatly facilitated the completion of the manuscript. I also thank the late Arthur Yap, who always believed in me and for whom this work comes too late, and his wonderful sisters Fanny, Alice, and Jenny, who always keep me in their prayers. Heartfelt thanks go to Ying-Ying Tan, who accepts me for who I am, reject or not. Portions of this manuscript have appeared in other forms as journal articles: “The Question of Community in Deleuze and Guattari” I & II in symplokē () and symplokē (); “Rejecting Friendship: Toward a Radical Reading of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship for Today” in Cultural Critique (); “Becoming-Animal: Transversal Politics” in diacritics () (, which appeared in ); and, “Posthuman Auto-Rejects: From Bacterial Life to Clinamen” in Subjectivity (). I thank the University of Nebraska Press, the University of Minnesota Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan for the kind permission to reprint versions of those materials here. [3.144.31.175] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 23:22 GMT) the re jec t ...