Queer Apocalypses

Queer Apocalypses
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9783319433615
ISBN-13 : 331943361X
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Book Synopsis Queer Apocalypses by : Lorenzo Bernini

Download or read book Queer Apocalypses written by Lorenzo Bernini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to save “the sexual” from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes a journey from Sigmund Freud to Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem, from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Teresa de Lauretis, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, and Tim Dean, and from all of these thinkers back to Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes. At the end, through readings of Bruce LaBruce’s movies on gay zombies, the elitism of antisocial queer theory is brought into contact with popular culture. The living dead come to represent a dispossessed form of subjectivity, whose monstrous drives are counterposed to predatory desires of liberal individuals. The reader is thus lead into the interstitial spaces of the Queer Apocalypses, where the past and the future collapse onto the present, and sexual minorities resurrect to the chance of a non-heroic political agency.


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