Corpo paisagem território

Esse artigo apresenta uma análise do filme As filhas do fogo, da argentina Albertina Carri (2019), reivindicado pela cineasta como pornô feminista. Vemos, no longa de ficção, um grupo de mulheres que viaja pela Patagônia argentina em uma vivência lésbica orgiástica. Com inspiração nas teorias queer, nos estudos sobre sensorialidade no cinema e sobre pornografia, além da noção de prática reparadora em Eve Sedgwick (2020), o trabalho busca identificar os modos como a obra provoca deslocamentos nas figurações do desejo feminino, produzindo uma política da imagem em diálogo com o que Paul B. Preciado (2007, 2018) chama de feminismo lúdico, que encontra no audiovisual, na literatura ou na performance seus espaços de ação e que seria capaz de operar como mecanismo de resistência às normatividades sexuais.

UMA ANÁLISE DE RÚTILO NADA SOB A PERSPECTIVA QUEER

O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a condição relacional dos personagens Lucius e Lucas, em Rútilo Nada (1993), a partir da teoria queer. Apoiando-nos em autores como Judith Butler (2003), Eve Sedgwick (2007) e Richard Miskolci (2012), o estudo refletirá sobre importantes questões, como o regime de heteronormatividade, heterossexismo e heterossexualidade compulsória no qual os personagens de Hilda Hilst estão inseridos, analisando ainda a trajetória da relação em questão, bem como o seu desfecho, sob o viés dos estudos queer.

Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking

I read Rossetto and Lo Presti's article, ‘Reimagining the National Map’, as an invitation to develop what I call, following Eve Sedgwick, a reparative study of national cartographies. In this commentary, I enthusiastically support their call but also argue for the need to move from an appreciation of maps’ fundamental instability to a more daring engagement with the normative dimension of national mapping. Like many scholars working from a post-representational perspective, Rossetto and Lo Presti associate the fundamental dynamism and contingency of maps with (potential) positive social change and, more specifically, the development of multicultural national imaginaries. I suggest that these associations deserve further scrutiny and argue that change and ‘everydayness’ may offer a starting point, but not a basis for progressive national mappings. Finally, drawing on the thought-provoking examples presented by Rossetto and Lo Presti, I reflect on what principles and practices could guide a progressive national cartography of Italy in 2021.

‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of Transnationalizing

Duncan’s chapter examines how the life and work of Eduardo Paolozzi were the inspiration for a series of research-based art projects carried out at Drummond and Castlebrae Community High Schools in Edinburgh. The projects drew on ideas and practices of intercultural translation to respond creatively to Paolozzi’s life-long fascination with popular culture, found and waste materials, and innovation. The chapter gives an account of the different media and techniques used, each of which sheds new light on cross-cultural mobility. These accounts are mediated by the reflective commentary of participants and the work of cultural theorists such as Mieke Bal, Eve Sedgwick and Doris Sommer, as well as Paolozzi himself.

Generation and Class Antagonism

In a recent special issue of modernism/modernity entitled weak theory, a group of scholars debated, receptively but appropriately gently, the merits of “weak thought,” a notion that the editor Paul Saint-Amour derived from his readings of Eve Sedgwick, Wai Chee Dimock, and Gianni Vattimo—a mode of argument, and even intellection, designed to deflate expansive or overconfident epistemological and ontological claims. The issue occasioned a great deal of online dispute, then no fewer than four sets of responses from the various partisans and antagonists of “weak theory,” and eventually, in a final invaginating flourish, a set of responses to the responses by the initial authors (including me). In their response, Melanie Micir and Aarthi Vadde brought into the conversation a tweet by Jacquelyn Ardam: I've been watching the conversations around @MModernity's “Weak Theory” issue unfold from the sidelines and here is my take: sure is easy to claim weakness when you have tenure or TT job. The Q of weakness looks v different from the land of the contingent. (@jaxwendy)

Quando as crianças viadas interpelam a docência

O presente ensaio se propõe a pensar as relações de gênero e aspectos da diversidade sexual a partir das contribuições de um episódio televisivo, um texto de Eve Sedgwick e outro de Giancarlo Cornejo: enunciações em torno dos meninos efeminados. Postulamos que nos debruçarmos sobre as “crianças viadas” pode nos ajudar a compreender as hierarquias de gênero que provocam e sustentam as assimetrias entre distintas posições. Assim, a partir desse analisador, interroga-se a escola e a formação de professores e professoras para pensarmos como nos posicionarmos frente a essas crianças como expressões da diferença.

Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments into Risky Markets

Engaging with the work of C. Wright Mills and Eve Sedgwick, in this article I theorize how homoerotic relations facilitate the flow of global capital into risky market economies. Drawing on interview data with more than 60 financial professionals managing foreign investments in Vietnam, I examine the co-constitution of gender and global capital by identifying three categories of deal brokers. System maintainers are men and women who accept that women’s bodies are necessary for male homosocial bonding between political and economic elites. System transformers are men and women who disrupt the status quo and develop alternative ways of deal brokering outside of erotic spaces. System defectors are those break the triangle altogether and work to create new markets.

Egg Theory's Early Style

This essay contemplates an enduring form of reasoning it titles “egg theory”: the type of reasoning that trans people use, prior to transition, to prove transition's impossibility or fruitlessness. It follows this reasoning in a critical and ironic framing in the work of the novelist and critic Sybil Lamb and then, in a less ironic mode, through some essays of Eve Sedgwick and, more broadly, the tranche of queer theory that her work continues to inspire. Egg theory's hostility to the logic of transition inheres in queer theory's own insistence on universality and virtuality as key aspects of queer politics. The essay concludes by considering, through Freud's “Schreber Case” and Dalí's “Metamorphosis of Narcissus,” alternatives to egg theory for approaching the condition of the egg before it hatches, the trans person before transition.