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In this response to Hartman, this issue, I integrate anti-Blackness and Indigenous theories, to ponder the ways risk is projected onto Hartman’s infant niece. The “dense temporalities” of the many objects used to surveil the infant are described, along with the ways Hartman’s lovely meandering associations via autotheory contribute to shifting ontologies and epistemologies. Building on Hartman’s considerations of the varieties of unconscious enigmatic forms his niece is bathed in, I explore the potentials of these transmissions emanating from the dense temporal histories of the surveillance objects themselves and the ways the “human” infant perpetually comes into being only momentarily, co-emergent with these more-than-human objects along with those humans tending to her. The racialized and misogynous histories of some of these objects and their transmitted risks, can only be enigmatic and too-much. Hartman’s use of the term “snatch” is also examined along with its versatility based on its meanings referring to both vaginas, vulvas, and phallic “members.”