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When one applies that heterocosmic impulse to the realm of anti-slavery activism, the slave's suffering is retained as the instantiation not only of the eternal punishment of those who participated in and perpetuated the slave trade, but also of a different cultural order beyond the reach of racial derogation and commodification.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

This passage introduces a remarkable subtext which re-orients much of the heterocosmic desire we have encountered thus far.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

That which separates them directly interferes with Equiano's heterocosmic fantasies.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

The sudden jump away from the intersubjective altogether may be necessary for Equiano to contain the earlier heterocosmic desires and to finally assert that "this merry-making at last ended without the least discord in any person in the company, although it was made up of different nations and complexions" (210).

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Unlike Equiano's childhood attempts to talk to books, this particular scene is not one of alienation, nor is it one of heterocosmic desire.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

In this particular subspecies of moral masochism there would seem to be a strong heterocosmic impulse – the desire to remake the world in another image altogether, to forge a different cultural order (197-8).

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

And he is doing so in part because the masochistic nationalism which characterized his ship-board praxis has transformed into a form of national imagination grounded not on heterocosmic fantasies, but rather on fantasies of immanent plenitude.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006