Abstract Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related sexuality have led a growing number scholars in recent years place practices at center critical historical inquiries sexual desire, subjectivity, embodiment. At same time, new histories science serve both expand temporal geographical frames for investigating relationships sex production, generate line...

Nonnegative probabilities that obey the sum rules may be assigned to a much wider family of sets of histories than decohering histories. The resulting linearly positive histories avoid the highly restrictive decoherence conditions and yet give the same probabilities when those conditions apply. Thus linearly positive histories are a broad extension of decohering histories. Moreover, the resulti...