The Signifying Body reads the work of Luce Irigaray and Frantz Fanon against Heidegger's theory of ontological becoming, arguing that each in their respective critiques of phallogocentrism and colonialism develops an ontology which not only allows for but presumes an ethical relation with an Other. The Signifying Body suggests that by attending to the materiality of sexual and racial difference, we can imagine ontologies that account for the lived experience of subjects that have traditionally served as the ground/object/thing for the white male humanist subject.