Masculinities and Desire: A Deleuzian Encounter

ISBN-13: 9780367731816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Marek Wojtaszek

Opis

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of desire.

Spis treści

Introduction: From subject to desire; Part I: Beyond gender Introduction; Chapter 1: Gender as representation; Chapter 2: Gender as ideology; Chapter 3: Gender as performativity; Part II: Desire; Chapter 4: Creation; Chapter 5: Power; Chapter 6: Production; Part III: Landscapes of desire Introduction; Chapter 7: Fighting the negative: Fight Club and the breakthrough of male masochistic schizophrenia; Chapter 8: Decentering the masculine: American Psycho, violence and becoming-imperceptible; Chapter 9: Who pulls your strings? Being John Malkovich and becoming-­other; Chapter 10: Virtualizing (masculine) subjectivity: The Matrix and an immanent techno-logic; Coda; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

O autorze

Marek Wojtaszek is an assistant professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland, affiliated with the Department of American and Media Studies, and the Women’s Studies Center. His main areas of research include body and space, Deleuze’s philosophy, digital and visual culture, and aesthetics and media ecologies.