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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155305303321

Autore

Bernini Lorenzo

Titolo

Queer Apocalypses [[electronic resource] ] : Elements of Antisocial Theory / / by Lorenzo Bernini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-43361-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XLIII, 216 p. 3 illus.)

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political theory

Political communication

Political philosophy

Sociology

Culture—Study and teaching

Political Theory

Political Communication

Political Philosophy

Gender Studies

Cultural Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Genealogical Exercises  -- Sicut Palea: How Sweet it Must Be to Die  -- Back to the Future  -- Resurrections  -- Apocalypse Here and Now  -- Becoming Animals.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .