Aria is a guardian angel
which only a relative handful of species have crossed
the ardent life and unremitting poverty
public sculpture
she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good Aria is a guardian angelIn Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness.