456 research outputs found
Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
"This book brings together two pieces of writing. In the first, âAfter Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,â Jonathan Goldberg assesses her legacy, prompted mainly by writing about Sedgwickâs work that has appeared in the years since her death in April 2009. Writing by Lauren Berlant, Jane Gallop, Katy Hawkins, Scott Herring, Lana Lin, and Philomina Tsoukala are among those considered as he explores questions of queer temporality and the breaching of ontological divides. Main concerns include the relationship of Sedgwickâs later work in Proust, fiber, and Buddhism to her fundamental contribution to queer theory, and the axes of identification across difference that motivated her work and attachment to it.
âCome As You Are,â the other piece of writing, is a previously unpublished talk Sedgwick gave in 1999â2000. It represents a significant bridge between her earlier and later work, sharing with her book Tendencies the ambition to discover the âsomethingâ that makes queer inextinguishable. In this piece, Sedgwick does that by contemplating her own mortality alongside her creative engagement with Buddhist thought, especially the in-between states named bardos and her newfound energy for making things. These were represented in a show of her fabric art, âFloating Columns/In the Bardo,â that accompanied her talk, a number of images of which are included in this book. They feature floating figures suspended in the realization of death. They are objects produced by Sedgwick, made of fabric; they come from her, yet are discontinuous with her, occupying a mode of existence that exceeds the span of human life and the confines of individual identity. They could be put beside the queer transitive identifications across difference that Goldbergâs essay explores.
Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
"This book brings together two pieces of writing. In the first, âAfter Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,â Jonathan Goldberg assesses her legacy, prompted mainly by writing about Sedgwickâs work that has appeared in the years since her death in April 2009. Writing by Lauren Berlant, Jane Gallop, Katy Hawkins, Scott Herring, Lana Lin, and Philomina Tsoukala are among those considered as he explores questions of queer temporality and the breaching of ontological divides. Main concerns include the relationship of Sedgwickâs later work in Proust, fiber, and Buddhism to her fundamental contribution to queer theory, and the axes of identification across difference that motivated her work and attachment to it.
âCome As You Are,â the other piece of writing, is a previously unpublished talk Sedgwick gave in 1999â2000. It represents a significant bridge between her earlier and later work, sharing with her book Tendencies the ambition to discover the âsomethingâ that makes queer inextinguishable. In this piece, Sedgwick does that by contemplating her own mortality alongside her creative engagement with Buddhist thought, especially the in-between states named bardos and her newfound energy for making things. These were represented in a show of her fabric art, âFloating Columns/In the Bardo,â that accompanied her talk, a number of images of which are included in this book. They feature floating figures suspended in the realization of death. They are objects produced by Sedgwick, made of fabric; they come from her, yet are discontinuous with her, occupying a mode of existence that exceeds the span of human life and the confines of individual identity. They could be put beside the queer transitive identifications across difference that Goldbergâs essay explores.
Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You're so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you
Aineisto on Opiskelijakirjaston digitoimaa ja Opiskelijakirjasto vastaa aineiston kÀyttöluvist
Bringing Nanda forward, or acting your age in The Awkward Age
Henry Jamesâs 1899 novel, The Awkward Age posits the adolescent girlâs movement forward into the future as an acute problem for the fin-de-siĂšcle. The novelâs titular pun equates the awkward, individual, in-between time of adolescence with the awkward, collective, in-between time of the fin-de-siĂšcle, leading us both towards the turn-of-the-century âinventionâ of the modern adolescent, and towards Jamesâ exploration of the culturally constructed nature of age as an identity category. The conflation of individual ages with historical ones is significant; Jamesâs novel appeared on the cusp of a new century, at a moment when adolescence was in the process of being consolidated as a modern identity category by medical authorities, educators, and psychologists. The novelâs deploying of technologies such as the telegraph and the photograph, that mediate presence, speed time up, slow it down, and freeze it, posits the adolescent girl as cognate with modernity; both of her time and ahead of it. In the novel, adolescence is an awkward, unnerving presence, and a significant absence: an identity in the process of being formulated, and an age category to come. In this article I explore the ways in which the rhetoric of modernity that resonates throughout the book relates to the awkward age of the adolescent. If we refocus our attention on age in The Awkward Age, we can begin to see the ways in which age itself becomes a creation of Jamesâs, a staging of possible relations (sexual, conversational, economic, theatrical, performative, even utopian-collective) between older and younger interlocutors who swing between being âadultsâ and âchildren,â with the fin-de-siĂšcle invention of the adolescent as a hinge for this process
Leitura paranoica e leitura reparadora, ou, vocĂȘ Ă© tĂŁo paranoico que provavelmente pensa que este ensaio Ă© sobre vocĂȘ
Tradução do texto "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, Youâre So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You", de Eve Sedgwick Kosofsky
Violence and affective states in contemporary Latin America
This special issue brings together scholars interested in the analysis of the social, cultural and affective dimensions of violence. The contributions explore the connections between situated experiences of violence and shifting affective states, relations, sensations and contingencies in contemporary Latin America. The articles consider how violence might constitute a nexus for the production of subjectivities and forms of identification, relationality and community, alterity and belonging, in a range of Latin American contexts including Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico and in the Mexican diaspora in Spain
Troublesome Masculinities: Masculinity in Trouble
This article explores the notion of troublesome' masculinities that characterise much of the policy discourse and programme thinking on problems of young men and gender. It critiques the dimorphism that shapes this view of young men's gender trouble, and the âculturalismâ that constrains the perception of the troubled times in which many young men live. The article argues that young men can be enlisted in the feminist struggle to transform ideologies and institutions of male power, but only by troubling both the notions of masculinity that underpin them as well as the structural inequalities within which they are enmeshed
Unknowable bodies, unthinkable sexualities: lesbian and transgender legal invisibility in the Toronto women's bathhouse raid
Although litigation involving sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination claims has generated considerable public attention in recent years, lesbian and transgender bodies and sexualities still remain largely invisible in Anglo-American courts. While such invisibility is generally attributed to social norms that fail to recognize lesbian and transgender experiences, the capacity to 'not see' or 'not know' queer bodies and sexualities also involves wilful acts of ignorance. Drawing from R. v Hornick (2002) a Canadian case involving the police raid of a women's bathhouse, this article explores how lesbian and transgender bodies and sexualities are actively rendered invisible via legal knowledge practices, norms and rationalities. It argues that limited knowledge and limited thinking not only regulate the borders of visibility and belonging, but play an active part in shaping identities, governing conduct and producing subjectivity
Inclusive Masculinity in a Fraternal Setting
This ethnographic research uses thirty-two in-depth interviews and two years of par-ticipant observation on a large chapter of a national fraternity to examine the construc-tion of masculinity among heterosexual men. Whereas previous studies of masculine construction maintain that most men in fraternities attempt to bolster their masculinity through the approximation of requisites of hegemonic masculinity, this research shows that there also exists a more inclusive form of masculinity institutionalized in the fra-ternal system: one based on social equality for gay men, respect for women, and racial parity and one in which fraternity men bond over emotional intimacy
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