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Drawing on experiences of researching India's architectural history, this article explores the affect generated by architectural archives as a source of knowledge. It traces the affective life of the archives and practices of a singular historical figure: Otto Koenigsberger, the chief architect and town planner of the princely state Mysore, the architect of Jamshedpur (a.k.a. Tatanagar, the "Steel City," India's first planned industrial town), the first director of housing of the federal government of India, cofounder and director of the Department of Tropical Studies of the Architectural Association in London, and architecture and planning consultant at-large to the United Nations. Arguing that the affective archive has disruptive historiographical potential, the article posits that it exists fundamentally beyond the architectural object and archival documents themselves, and indeed fully in discourse with its users. The article argues for a more expansive and inclusive understanding of what constitutes an archive, designating the "archival habitat" as a place of active scholarly engagement.

In the 2003 concert Cho Revolution, Korean American stand-up comedian Margaret Cho mounts a critique of US empire that focuses on the Asian sex worker as logistical support for the military troops of commodity capitalism. Combining a science and technology studies approach and a performance and literary studies method attentive to bodily rhetorics and patterns evident in assembled structures, I theorize Cho's praxis of peristaltic feminism. Inciting rhythmic waves of (commercial) terrorism that first register below the belt as belly-shaking laughter, the felt actions of the viscera intrude into the cognitive registers where apparent rationality does not rule as much as imperialist disavowal and contradiction. In short, Cho's lobbed pussy shout-outs wash over her audience like a peristaltic wave. This essay draws out the value of a peristaltic feminism for a queer critical racial studies project precisely through its roundabout technique — its refusing the straight path going directly to the point. As part of an ongoing development in embodiment studies to resituate the biological sciences as a resource for feminist and queer thinking, this essay further reflects on critical habits that implicitly prefer interpretive frameworks modeled on the machinic and defensive rather than on the organismal, connective, and miscegenated.

Why does it make sense for those interested in gender and women to be interested in "The Cultural Politics of Seeds"? Because they are potent symbols of fertility, seeds present an ideal topic through which to prompt our feminist, gender studies, and LBGTIS communities to gauge their awareness of linkages between, let's say, the devaluing of women's worth and issues of gendered violence (for example, use of amniocentesis to select for male babies) to horticulture, soil health, and labor on farms. CSW's upcoming symposium on "The Cultural Politics of Seeds" also offers the opportunity to acknowledge the immense scientific expertise held by rural women in their processes of farming -- expertise that has been hones and refined for thousands of years.

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engagingnovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. andinternationally-such as Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let MeGo or Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of BodyWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons-RachelC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthumanecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. Sheunpacks how the designation of "Asian American" itself is a mental constructthat is paradoxically linked to the biological body.Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard forreading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research onbiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on theliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergentscales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy betweenAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned withspeculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovationwithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to otherdisciplines

Corpse Blood Kidney --Introduction: Parts/Parturition1 --Lymphocytes --1How a Critical Biopolitical Studies Lens Alters the Questions We Ask vis-à-vis Race39 --Teeth Feet Gamete --2The Asiatic, Acrobatic, and Aleatory Biologies of Cheng-Chieh Yus Dance Theater66 --Vagina Gi Tract --3Pussy Ballistics and Peristaltic Feminism97 --Parasite Chromosome --4Everybody's Novel Protist: Chimeracological Entanglements in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction126 --Head --5A Sideways Approach to Mental Disabilities: Incarceration, Kinesthetics, Affect, and Ethics161 --Breasts Skin --6Allotropic Conclusions: Propositions on Race and the Exquisite Corpse210 --Tissue Culture: Tail Piece245.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Parts/parturition -- 1. How a critical biopolitical studies lens alters the questions we ask vis-à-vis race -- 2. The Asiatic, acrobatic, and aleatory biologies of cheng-chieh yu's dance theater -- 3. Pussy ballistics and peristaltic feminism -- 4. Everybody's novel protist: chimeracological entanglements in amitav ghosh's fiction -- 5. A sideways approach to mental disabilities: incarceration, kinesthetics, affect, and ethics -- 6. Allotropic conclusions: propositions on race and the exquisite corpse -- Tail piece -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

BACKGROUND: Antibiotics are one of the most frequently prescribed medications. Among all classes of antibiotics, penicillins are prescribed due to their clinical efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and general safety. Unfortunately, penicillins also are the most common drug allergy listed in patient medical records. Increasing evidence shows that > 90% of patients labeled with a penicillin allergy are not allergic to penicillins and associated β-lactams. The health care consequences of penicillin allergy in the setting of military medicine and readiness are important to consider. OBSERVATIONS: In the US, 8 to 10% of the population and up to 15% of hospitalized patients have a documented penicillin allergy, limiting the use of these effective antibiotics. When treating a patient with a penicillin allergy, many clinicians avoid prescribing all β-lactam antibiotics and stay away from cephalosporins due to the concern for potential cross-reactivity. The cost of treating those with a documented penicillin allergy is greater than the cost for those who can receive penicillin, as treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics often results in longer hospitalizations with increased rates of adverse effects (AEs). Despite preventive programs such as vaccinations, hygiene measures, and prophylactic antibiotics, military personnel are at increased risk for infections due to the military's mobile nature and crowded living situations. CONCLUSIONS: Many patients report an allergy to penicillin, but only a small portion have a true immune-mediated allergy. Given the clinical, public health, and economic costs associated with a penicillin allergy label, evaluation and clearance of penicillin allergies improves clinical outcomes, decreases AEs from higher risk alternative broad-spectrum antibiotics, and prevents the spread of antibiotic resistance. In military personnel, penicillin delabeling improves readiness with optimal antibiotic options and avoidance of unnecessary risks, expediting return to full duty.