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Indifference to difference : on queer universalism /
Indiffernce to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism-not one th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Indiffernce to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism-not one that insists we are all different but one that recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness to contain desire-then difference no longer become the focus of our identity. Instead, we enter the worlds of desire. Menon argues what is most queer abourt indifference is not that it gives us queerness as an identity but that it is able to change queerness into a resistance of ontology. Firmly committed to the detours of desire, queer universalism evades identity. This polemical book demonstrates that queerness is the condition within which we labor. Our desires are not ours to be owned; they are indifferent to our differences. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452944968 1452944962 9781452953656 1452953651 |