Post-queer Politics

by Ruffolo,David V.

• ISBN13: 9780754676751
• ISBN10: 0754676757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Post-Queer Politics embarks on a radically creative terrain that transcends the queer/heteronormative dyad that has largely consumed queer studies and theories. Post-queer moves contemporary politics away from significations, representations, and identifications that have resulted in theoretical gridlock because of their fundamental interest in lack and absence. Ruffolo introduces us to a post-queer politics of dialogical-becomings by comparing and contrasting the ways in which Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, Deleuze, Guattari and many others conceptualize the materialities of life itself. This book rejects essentialized understandings of experience and exceeds binary structures, arguing that dialogical-becomings are always creative potentialities that are open to the world rather than closed off from it. Post-Queer Politics critically intervenes in the power/language/discourse triad of subjectivity by offering new ways to think about life. Its productive and affirmative politics create novel spaces to consider the virtualities of neoliberal capitalism and globalization through a variety of topics ranging from democracy and higher education to knowledge economics and biotechnological innovations. This radical and intersectional reconceptualization of class, race, sex, gender, sexuality, and ability extends beyond queer studies. As such its transdisciplinary look at current politics will appeal to readers across a range of subjects, including gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, and education.