By Andrew Parker
During this distinctive factor of SAQ, a popular team of individuals give some thought to the vicissitudes of queer thought considering its inception within the early Nineteen Nineties. the problem considers what—if anything—lies on the center of queer reviews except its curiosity in sexuality. With essays meant to be extra reflective than scholarly, the authors consider the way forward for queer thought by way of meditating richly on its prior. no matter if viewing sexuality because the epitome of the social or of the anti-social, the essays shape a sustained meditation on intercourse as a resource of pleasure and hassle, as an issue of significant inquiry, and as a political conundrum.Contributors discover the interdisciplinarity of the sphere and its relation to different fields, resembling severe race experiences, feminism, and lesbian and homosexual experiences. numerous essays remember the beginning of queer concept within the days of the feminist-sex wars and the 1st AIDS-related homosexual male deaths; a few participants evoke the times of the field’s infancy whereas others are happy to embody its adulthood. The sheer quantity and breadth of the themes considered—everything from Hank Williams and the paradoxes of local American sovereignty to the declension of atoms within the writings of Lucretius, from Henry Darger’s “naive” depiction of women with male genitals to the event of being unmarried or of falling asleep—reflect the continued energy of queer conception a new release after its inception.Contributors Lauren BerlantMichael CobbAnn CvetkovichLee EdelmanRichard Thompson FordCarla FrecceroElizabeth FreemanJonathan GoldbergJanet HalleyNeville HoadJoseph LitvakMichael MoonJos? Esteban Mu?ozJeff NunokawaAndrew ParkerElizabeth A. PovinelliRichard RambussErica RandBethany SchneiderEve Kosofsky SedgwickKate Thomas
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Sure, such a gesture might just be another form of coupledom (the binary—distance vs. intimacy). But at least this couple doesn’t promise, right away, that my feelings of disquiet will be relieved by doing what we’re all supposed to do: touch! For I’m less 456 Michael Cobb optimistic about the kind of closeness, the kind of crowdedness, that love and sex often make us believe. Perhaps another way to think about what I’m trying to say is to think about what happens, if one’s lucky, after one has had enough sex: sleep.
I’ve initiated a research protocol that traverses the ideology of the couple—which is distinct from the myriad of intimate relationships that are often the most important relationships in people’s lives, as they should be. I have to interrupt the steely, enduring logic of the couple. To do so, I have to pursue a heuristic, a tentative method of thought, that will propose that we focus on the single, not the couple. It requires taking a step away from sex. 4 Quite recently, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit seem to do as much when they generate subtle readings out of Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris (1963).
466 Ann Cvetkovich Utopian Locations In exploring racialized public feelings, I have also drawn on my other work on queer subcultural forms. At this level of daily experience and the cultural forms to which it gives rise, affective life is often central and also more complexly visible than in sensationalized media. One finds also a range of both experimental and popular media and forms that suggest models for an alternative affective public sphere. Among these, the many modes of autobiography—memoir, zines, punk rock, solo performance, autodocumentary in film and video—are very prominent as mechanisms for bringing into public view individual experiences that should be understood as collective, however idiosyncratic and queer.
