All from Magic Work: Queerness as Remystification by Caspar Heinemann:

In Huxtable’s world of clashing im/materialities, not only is neither the immaterial nor the material privileged or relegated, but neither side is allowed to exist without the other. She plays with the idea of the physical as something that can be removed, but the body is never more than a few sentences away, ready to react. Meatspace is a force constantly acting upon and recreating the ether (and vice versa), and the boundaries between them are blurred and unstable; ‘fat, bones, bodily fluids, pocketed dishes, and photos on faulty hard-drives’ exist in the same breath. There’s no space for the material of the body to become subservient to the subject, or the reverse

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Preoccupation with death and violence is preoccupation with materiality and the object; to get literal and dualistic, the process of dying is a process of moving from subject to object. Objectification has always been characterised as violence, but for Bronson, dying is a lifelong process, entirely embedded into the fabric of life, giving another way in which the body always inhabits a liminal space between object and subject. What would an objectification that is not violent or forced, but embraced and embodied look like? Or a weaponised objectification, liberated from the demands of representation, free to turn against itself. Bronson’s insistence on the ubiquity of death presents a possibility, an encouragement to embrace the letting go of a cohesive subject represented by a singular physical form.

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One attempt at cosy accommodation or recuperation of trans bodies into the gender binary has been the trope of the man/woman trapped in the body of the man/woman, which somehow manages to imply that bodies both signify everything, and count for nothing. The body is a reflection, not even a mirror; it cannot be trusted as representation, or allowed the dignity of being material in and of itself. The flesh must be situated as subservient to the mind, but the mind has no actual power to alter the flesh. Judith Butler critiqued this from the position that sex is no more an objective fact than gender itself, which becomes ‘free-floating artifice’ after being theorised as independent of sex. But why wait? And as if anything is independent anymore (if it ever was). Talking of floating, when I think of subject I think of it as a liquid with objects floating in it, some of which rise to the surface or sink, according to weight or hormones or the natural order of things.

‘I HATE MEN SO I STOPPED BEING ONE’ – tumblr user sixtyforty. The dictionary.com definition of trans- (prefix) is a root meaning ‘across, beyond, through, changing thoroughly’. The trans body is a body perpetually signified by changing thoroughly; don’t even think about staying still, you can’t. This is of course true of all bodies, just some wear it more readily on their sleeves or secondary sex characteristics, in the way that all bodies are ageing bodies but only some people have an ageing body.