Queer politics, queer theory, and the future Of “identity”: spiralling out of culture

2006 ◽  
pp. 283-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthold Schoene
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Politics

Dancing in the Dark: Marcella Althaus-Reid and Negative Queer Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Kristien Justaert
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Theology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Christian Understanding

In this article, I confront Marcella Althaus-Reid’s thinking with the recent ‘negative turn’ in queer theory, as observed by Judith Halberstam. What remains when the belief in our world as such, and in the future of it, has to be totally rejected, as some queer theorists like Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman, for example, claim? Or, in theological terms: what could the categories of redemption, salvation and liberation still mean if one wishes to think God within history, but at the same time rejects this history? I investigate these questions by focusing on two central concepts of Althaus-Reid’s indecent theology, incarnation and redemption. First, brought into dialogue with negative queer politics, I argue that Althaus-Reid helps us to develop an understanding of radical incarnation in the flesh on the ‘underside’ of society. Second, I look at Althaus-Reid’s critique of the traditional Christian understanding of redemption and her alternative of a notion of redemption that is connected to love, solidarity and reciprocity, instead of to a one-way act of grace by a transcendent God. I conclude that a ‘negative queer theology’, when developed in line with Althaus-Reid’s insights, necessarily maintains an affirmative undercurrent, a belief in an unknown life.

Negativity in Luke’s Rich Fool and the Abyss of the Cross

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Adam F. Braun
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Rich

Abstract This paper argues that the operative force in Luke’s parable of The Rich Fool is negativity. Moreover, negativity is as common in Lukan parables as status reversals. As the parable warns against securing the future, this paper reads Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive to show how negativity, towards reproductive futurism in particular, activates Luke’s pessimism. This pessimism is grounded in the crucifixion and is not resolved in the resurrection. Luke’s pessimism is not only one which expresses his affective diasporic context, but it also invokes doubt on whether Jesus is messiah.

Queer Persistence: On Death, History, and Longing for Endings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maia Kotrosits
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
The Future

“What does it mean to live with HIV indefinitely, without knowing whether or not it will kill you?” Tim Dean writes, marking the changing timeline for HIV in the wake of new medical treatments. Exploring the anxiety experienced by some gay men as a result of the new uncertainties around HIV positivity, Dean proposes that this anxiety might tell all of us something about our relationships to time, the future, and mortality. Indeed, death has haunted queer theory from its inception as its implicit telos, either to be embraced or refused. But if death is the telos of queer theory, then it is one that repeatedly and frustratingly refuses to be final. This chapter explores the longing for endings and what might be called a "queer persistence" through Dean’s essay, Eve Sedgwick’s almost incidental description of queer as a “continuing moment,” and the Gospel of Mark, a text that bends or thwarts conventions of beginning, middle, and end. If anything worries us more than death, it seems, it is a lack of resolution.

To Exist Is to Resist: Palestine and the Question of Queer Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Heike Schotten
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Politics

This article provides an outline of the project of queer theory and the ways that this project has (and has not) engaged with the question of Palestine. Ultimately, the author argues that queer theory and Palestinian liberation share, albeit perhaps unwittingly, a defining resistance to elimination and an enduring commitment to unsettlement. As such, queer politics is and can surely become decolonial praxis, just as decolonization has a clear affinity with dissident queer resistance.

Queer Studies in Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Ingrey
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Future ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
And Gender

A survey of key contributors and theoretical tensions in the applications of queer studies in education is purposefully partial namely because of the impartiality embedded in the nature of ‘queer’, a verb whose action unsettles, dismantles and interrogates systems of normalization, beginning with heteronormativity and heterosexism. Queer theory emerged in the 1990s before influencing education, including both elementary and secondary schooling; however, queer is complex in that it involves the signifier or signified term: it is both the integration of queer content in curriculum as well as the practice of queering educational practices (i.e., curriculum, pedagogy and practice). The queering of pedagogy involves the queering of the educational subject, both teachers and students. In such a survey of queer in education, the ontological groundings for queer are important to consider given the paradoxical nature of queer to unpack and unsettle whilst maintaining its hold on an identity category in order to do its unsettling work. Indeed, the consequent recognition of the subjecthood of queer in educational contexts is a significant note in this attention to queer’s application in education. Queer also moves beyond not only an inclusion of queer content, but also exceeds queer sexualities to cohere and contrast with trans-infused approaches. Queer theory considers that the future of queer may well exceed beyond sexuality and gender altogether to become a practice of unsettling or critique more generally. Its continuity in education studies as well as its potentially impending expiration are concerns of scholars in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Future

This volume explores the history, application, and the future of ecocriticism. It traces the origins of and describes the practice of ecocriticism during the renaissance, medieval, and romantic period and evaluates the influence of the ecoformalism of country and old-time music. It analyzes the relevance of various theories and principles to ecocritical analysis including posthumanism, phenomenology, queer theory, deconstruction, pataphyics, biosemiotic criticism, and environmental justice. This volume also investigates the application of ecocriticism in the analysis of the politics of representation, evaluation literary form and genre and in eco-film studies and reviews the relevant works of various authors including Rudyard Kipling and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Introduction: Queerness, Time, and Biblical Interpretation

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-397
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Moore ◽  
Denise Kimber Buell
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Future

Abstract This article introduces a thematic issue of Biblical Interpretation on the “temporal turn” in queer theory as it relates to biblical studies. Queer theorists of time have variously interrogated inherited concepts of history, historiography, historicity, and/or periodicity; the chrononormativity that regulates contemporary sexual lives; reproductive futurism, which evokes “our children” and their future to shore up heteronormativity and anathematize queerness; or explored the complex relations of queerness to the future and hence to hope. The contributions to this thematic issue, also introduced in the article, creatively harness these temporal theories and analytic strategies for queer biblical criticism and queer biblical hermeneutics.

The Future of Queer Theory

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (65-66) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
The Future

Apocalypse NOW!

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Woltersdorff
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
The One

This essay analyses apocalyptic rhetoric in recent queer theoretical writings on negativity and temporality, in particular the invocation of an end, and its use for political radicality. The suspension of progressive time in favour of alternative temporalities, such as reversion, circularity or endless presence, has for long been a strategy of subcultural performance, coming out narratives, AIDS activism, and other queer politics. Such strategies stage a rupture within the linearity of time and the symbolic order of discourse. The author illustrates the potentials and pitfalls of this rhetoric gesture by elaborating its inherent dialectics between the disruption and the emergence of temporality. The dialectics consist precisely in that by radically negating historicity, apocalyptical rhetorics make history. Invoking the end of future thus empowers the one who is speaking, as it installs an immediate urgency for action and interpellates queer subjects. Yet, the assumed radicality often hides the privileged condition of its formation. By universalising the particularity of this perspective, it runs the risk of turning radical negativity into radical affirmation. In conclusion, the author claims that it is the loss of futurity rather than, as some antisocial approaches argue, the active destruction or negation of futurity that ought to be regarded as queer momentum. For when the experience of a queer loss results in a work of mourning, it aims at reappropriating the future and articulating it in unforeseen and queer ways.

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