Bernini Queer Apocalypses

Elements of Antisocial Theory
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-43361-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernini, Lorenzo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heim, Julia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Elements of Antisocial Theory
1. Genealogical Exercises1.1 From the Pleasure Principle…1.2 …To the Death Drive
2. Sicut Palea: How Sweet it Must Be to Die2.1 Homos/Thanatos2.2 Homos/Heros
3. Back to the Future3.1 The Anal Struggle Against Capital3.2 No Pity for Tiny Tim3.3 After the End (Catullus)
Part 2: Queer Apocalypses
4. Resurrections4.1 The Jouissance of the Living Dead4.2 Bruce’s Zombies
5. Apocalypse Here and Now5.1 Hobbes’ Biopolitical Crystal5.2 Butchering Leviathan
6. Becoming Animals6.1 Zombies versus Lycanthropes6.2 Celine’s Chickens, or on Prophetic Voices

Über Autor(innen)

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.