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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Queer Apocalypses
• Subtitle: Elements of Antisocial Theory
• Author: Lorenzo Bernini, Julia Heim
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9783319433608
• ISBN: 3319433601
• ID: 13496589
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 4401 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2016

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