Deleuze and Queer Theory (Deleuze Connections) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748634045 ISBN 13: 9780748634040

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This exciting collection of new work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. The field of Queer Theory has for too long been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and the focus on Performativity. The authors in this collection attempt to re-imagine Queer Theory through a critical engagement with the work of Deleuze and Guattari. The themes explored in the book are diverse and include: the revisiting of the term 'queer'; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze Guattari philosophy. The book will be of particular interest to both queer and Deleuzian theorists, as well as, to a broader audience of academics working in the vast field of feminism, gender and sexuality studies.

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Review:

This is a brilliant and well-timed collection of state-of-the-arts essays. It conclusively proves that queerness has to do not only with identity politics and performative stances, but also with material and collective experiments with radical otherness and un-programmed intensity. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University and Honorary Professor at Birkbeck College London

About the Author:

Chrysanthi Nigianni is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies, University of East London. She has taught at the University of East London and at Anglia Ruskin University. Merl Storr is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. She is the author of Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties (2003). Professor of English at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0748634045
• ISBN 13: 9780748634040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Nigianni Chrysanthi, Storr Merl, Buchanan Ian