Queer Apocalypses : Elements of Antisocial Theory
Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2017
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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 chanceof a non-heroic political agency.
Book information
ISBN: | 9783319828022 |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pub date: | 11 Jul 2018 |
Edition: | Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2017 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 216 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 14mm |