Sometimes I am amazed when I find that some people are not aware of the work done by feminist, black, and postcolonial scholars on questions relevant to the general debates within cultural studies or philosophy. How can you not know? I want to ask. How can they not be cited? I protest. What I have learned is that not knowing about certain things is an effect of the lines people have already taken, which means they ‘attend’ to some things only by giving up proximity to others, which is at the same time giving up on certain futures.