Responses & Discussion
Where Ran’s arguments have been taken up, argued with, or commissioned by others.
Arguments taken up
Episode #543, “Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity” (7 April 2026) — a full-length discussion of the chapter’s argument.
TLV1, 3 February 2026 — an interview built around the same argument.
Commissions and invitations
Has published Ran twice, including a ten-thousand-word essay with thirty-two endnotes, with a further essay forthcoming.
Commissioned “Abolish Queer Theory!” for Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, and invited Ran to speak at the Return to Sodom symposium (London, February 2025) and at the book’s Berlin launch (December 2025).
Published “Hannah Arendt and the Nation State” in August 2026.
Collective statements
Coordinated by Ran in October 2023 and co-signed by more than seventy-five Israeli progressives and peace activists, among them David Grossman and Yuval Noah Harari.
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