Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory

ISBN-13: 9783319433608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 216 str.

Lorenzo Bernini; Julia Heim

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part 1: Elements of Antisocial Theory

1. Genealogical Exercises

1.1 From the Pleasure Principle…

1.2 …To the Death Drive

2. Sicut Palea: How Sweet it Must Be to Die

2.1 Homos/Thanatos

2.2 Homos/Heros

3. Back to the Future

3.1 The Anal Struggle Against Capital

3.2 No Pity for Tiny Tim

3.3 After the End (Catullus)

Part 2: Queer Apocalypses

4. Resurrections

4.1 The Jouissance of the Living Dead

4.2 Bruce’s Zombies

5. Apocalypse Here and Now

5.1 Hobbes’ Biopolitical Crystal

5.2 Butchering Leviathan

6. Becoming Animals

6.1 Zombies versus Lycanthropes

6.2 Celine’s Chickens, or on Prophetic Voices

O autorze

Lorenzo Bernini teaches Political Philosophy and Sexuality at the University of Verona, Italy, where he founded the research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality). His interests range from classical political philosophy and French thought of the twentieth century, to contemporary theories of radical democracy and queer studies.

Blurb

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.