Teorema’s Death Drive

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-358
Author(s):  
Damon R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Made In

This chapter offers a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), not only as a major queer film, but as an early work of queer theory. Made in 1968, Teorema appears at a moment of political upheaval, and yet confoundingly discards a narrative of class struggle in order to focus on a series of sexual encounters between a handsome, unnamed stranger (played by Terence Stamp) and every member of a wealthy Milanese family. Does Pasolini’s first film to explicitly depict homosexuality entail a failure of his Marxist politics? Exploring the film’s political aesthetics, the chapter argues that what is at stake in Teorema is an aesthetic inscription of what Guy Hocquenghem, a few years later, would call “homosexual desire.” Far from describing a socially intelligible sexual orientation, this term names a movement towards dissolution and revolution, both material and metaphysical.

scholarly journals Queering participatory planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 095624782110193
Author(s):  
Vanesa Castán Broto
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
And Gender

All over the world, people suffer violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Queer theory has linked the politics of identity and sexuality with radical democracy experiments to decolonize development. Queering participatory planning can improve the wellbeing of vulnerable sectors of the population, while also enhancing their political representation and participation. However, to date, there has been limited engagement with the politics of sexuality and identity in participatory planning. This paper identifies three barriers that prevent the integration of queer concerns. First, queer issues are approached as isolated and distinct, separated from general matters for discussion in participatory processes. Second, heteronormative assumptions have shaped two fields that inform participatory planning practices: development studies and urban planning. Third, concrete, practical problems (from safety concerns to developing shared vocabularies) make it difficult to raise questions of identity and sexuality in public discussions. An engagement with queer thought has potential to renew participatory planning.

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (review)

2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-256
Author(s):  
Andrea Fontenot
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Death Drive

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.

The Degenerate in Falling Slowly (1998)

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-223
Author(s):  
Peta Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Domestic Fiction ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Sister Relationship ◽  
Rhetorical Form ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Way

Silence and rereading are key discursive practices of Miriam and Beatrice Sharpe, the sister protagonists of Falling Slowly. Their forms of absence and excess cause critics to herald the decline of Brookner’s powers in her early reception.The sisters also share a number of behaviours with the aesthetes and Decadents labelled degenerate in Max Nordau’s Degeneration including Joris-Karl Huysmans, Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé. Such behaviours include dullness, decline, ennui, inactivity, boredom, invisibility, anxiety, restlessness and absence. This chapter spins the hierarchical figure of the degenerate across the sister relationship of the domestic fiction to produce a queering of the domestic fiction. Rejecting the normative impulse of the figure, it instead engages its deconstructive capacity to render transparent the mechanisms of epistemological production and expose the way in which subjects and objects attain status as real or unreal, healthy or sick, visible or invisible, literal or figurative, heterosexual or lesbian. Inspired by Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, it mobilises a ‘no future’ narrative as the narrative form of the degenerate. The rhetorical form of syllepsis, which governs shifts between the literal and figurative, is reappropriated from the male canon to underscore the open-ended nature of signification.

scholarly journals O retorno da Companhia, a partir das missões populares dos jesuítas espanhóis, no extremo sul do Brasil (1842-1867) * The return of the Company, as from the popular missions of the Spanish Jesuits, in extreme Southern Brazil (1842-1867)

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
LUIZ FERNANDO MEDEIROS RODRIGUES
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Made In

<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>Durante os primeiros anos do Segundo Reinado (1840-1889), a Província de São Pedro do Rio Grande estava em estado de agitação política, conseqüência da guerra civil, conhecida como Revolução Farroupilha (1835-1845). É neste contexto que o retorno dos jesuítas ao Brasil e missões foi feito na região sul do país, entre 1842-1845. Este artigo tem como objetivo buscar compreender os acontecimentos que tornaram possível a "restauração" da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil. A ação missionária desses jesuítas nos permitirá compreender o modus operandi dos jesuítas, também o método seguido em missões populares, destacando as necessárias alianças que entrelaçaram com o clero diocesano, visando enfrentar a resistência das elites maçônico-liberais.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Jesuítas – Missões populares – Restauração da Companhia.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>During the first years of the second reign (1840-1889), the Province of St. Pedro do Rio Grande was in a state of political upheaval, a consequence of the civil war, known as Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845). It is in this context that the return of the Jesuits to Brazil and missions was made in the southern region of the country, between 1842-1845. This article aims to seek to understand the events that made possible the “restoration” of the Society of Jesus in Brazil. The missionary action of these Jesuits will enable us to understand the the modus operandi of the Jesuits, also the method followed in popular missions, stressing the necessary alliances that had entwine with the diocesan clergy, in addition to facing the resistance of the Masonic-liberal elites.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Jesuits – Popular Missions – Company Restoration. <strong></strong></p><p> </p>

Queer Perspectives Fuelling Diversity Management Discourse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regine Bendl ◽  
Roswitha Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Management Discourse ◽  
Insight Into

Diversity management discourse shows that theoretical concepts and strategies often neglect issues of ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘sexuality’, and unwittingly reinforce patterns of exclusion in organizational practice. This chapter considers the diversity category ‘sexual orientation’ within a broader theoretical framework, by highlighting the constitutive connectedness between ‘sex’, ‘gender’, and ‘sexuality’. It uses queer theoretical concepts to give insight into the normative intersections of ‘sex’, ‘gender’, and ‘sexuality’ and, thus, heteronormative phenomena in diversity management discourse. Based on an exploration of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their codes of conduct (CoCs) it highlights the interventional and transformative potential of queer theory as an approach to DM discourse.

Sexual Orientation in the Presentation of Joseph's Character in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

AJS Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 67-104
Author(s):  
Robert A. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Biblical Texts

This article explores rabbinic traditions that see in the character of Joseph a figure of uncertain sexual orientation. I examine a series of rabbinic and biblical texts in which an unconventional gender dynamic may be present. While it is true that these biblical and rabbinic texts ran contrary to the normative ideational and behaviorally prescriptive traditions concerning sexuality presented by the main body of biblical and rabbinic texts, it is nonetheless true that the texts I examine invite readers to see an alternative dynamic through their stories. I will employ a variety of methodologies, including philological/critical scholarship, close literary reading, and queer theory, through which we might most profitably examine the interpretative traditions I consider.

Staging Discomfort

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bretton White
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
The Ideal

Staging Discomfort examines how queer bodies are theatrically represented on the Cuban stage in order to re-evaluate the role of categorization as one of the state’s primary revolutionary tools. These performances concentrate on an aesthetics of fluidity, and thus upset traditional understandings of performer and spectator, and what constitutes the ideal Cuban citizenry. New affective modes are produced when performing bodies highlight—often in uncomfortably intimate, grotesque, or raw ways—the unavoidability of spectators’ bodies, and their capacity for queerness. Here the imagining of new continuities and subjectivities can lead to a reconfiguration of forms of Cuban citizenship. The affective responses from the closeness experienced in the performances in Staging Discomfort are challenges to the Cuban state’s self-designated role as primary provider for the needs of its citizens’ bodies. Through the lens of queer theory, the manuscript explores the body’s centrality to the state’s deployment of fear to successfully marginalize gay life, which this group of works seeks to defuse through an articulation of intimacies, shame, the death drive, cruising, and failure. These affective experiences shape Cuban subjectivities that emerge out of queerness, but whose focus on inclusivity necessarily involves all Cubans. Several of the central questions that guide Staging Discomfort are: How is Cuban theater agile in its critiques considering the state’s limitations on expression? How do queer performances allow for new understandings about the effects of the state’s failing socialist utopian contract with its citizens? And, can Cuban bodies that come together in queer ways re-imagine Cuban citizenship?

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-696
Author(s):  
Roberta K. Beach
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Made In

Joseph Nicolosi's letter offers an opportunity to emphasize an important point made in the American Academy of Pediatrics' statement on "Homosexuality and Adolescence." The acknowledgment and understanding of one's sexual identity and sexual orientation is a developmental process that occurs gradually throughout adolescence and young adulthood. Confusion about sexual orientation is not unusual during adolescence, and the Committee on Adolescence agrees that professionals should avoid prematurely labeling an adolescent as gay. The role of the health professional is to offer sensitive and nonjudgmental support as the adolescent explores his or her developing sexual identity.

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