Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory Claire Colebrook
- 2 Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queering of Deleuze and Guattari
- 3 The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler Anna Hickey-Moody and Mary Lou Rasmussen
- 4 Every ‘One’ – a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle
- 5 The Adventures of a Sex
- 6 Queer Hybridity
- 7 Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities
- 8 Unnatural Alliances
- 9 Schreber and the Penetrated Male
- 10 Butterfly Kiss: The Contagious Kiss of Becoming-Lesbian Chrysanthi Nigianni
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory Claire Colebrook
- 2 Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queering of Deleuze and Guattari
- 3 The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler Anna Hickey-Moody and Mary Lou Rasmussen
- 4 Every ‘One’ – a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle
- 5 The Adventures of a Sex
- 6 Queer Hybridity
- 7 Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities
- 8 Unnatural Alliances
- 9 Schreber and the Penetrated Male
- 10 Butterfly Kiss: The Contagious Kiss of Becoming-Lesbian Chrysanthi Nigianni
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
You ask me: why bring all these texts together in this book? Why ‘Deleuze and Queer Theory’? What does this and mean? You wonder whether it might be the expression of an opposition that will lead to a battle, a combat; a war that will announce winners and dark horses, will declare the past dead and will celebrate a new future. Or maybe, it is a hope for juxtaposition and collaboration based on resonances, or differences. An attempt for reconciliation through the annihilation of the differential parties perhaps?
And as the middle space, the borderline that separates but also brings together; and as the transit word, a force of transition towards something other that always entails a coming back: the becoming-DeleuzoGuattarian of Queer Theory, the becoming-queer of Deleuze's and Guattari's theory. And as the invisible in-between, the mystery gap, the topos of hidden erotic connections, of contagious exchange, of unnatural encounters based on imperceptible micro-attractions and incompatibilities; and as the experiment to think as two, to rethink through a two-fold process that amplifies what goes on in one's thinking, that expands one single concept (queer), transforming it from a materialising signifier to an intrinsic quality of nonrepresentational thinking.
Thus, this project is primarily creative and not critical, and it is critical precisely by being creative. Rather than dismissing queer (theory), this collective work reaffirms the seductive power of the concept ‘queer’, and its continuing force to inspire thinking nowadays.
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- Deleuze and Queer Theory , pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2009