Queer Apocalypses Elements of Antisocial Theory
This book is an attempt to save “the sexual” from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. I
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Lorenzo Bernini
Queer Apocalypses
Lorenzo Bernini
Queer Apocalypses Elements of Antisocial Theory
Lorenzo Bernini Translation Julia Heim University of Verona Verona, Italy Translated by Julia Heim Translation from the Italian language edition: Apocalissi queer: Elementi di teoria antisociale by Lorenzo Bernini © Edizioni ETS, 2013. TRANSLATION BY JULIA HEIM. All Rights Reserved
ISBN 978-3-319-43360-8 ISBN 978-3-319-43361-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43361-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957343 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Pavel Talashov / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To Tommaso, again and again To Michele (again and again) To Francesca
Physicists say that holes are not the absence of particles but particles traveling faster than the speed of light. Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration. [Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari]
Homosexuality exists and does not exist, at one and the same time: indeed, its very mode of existence questions again and again the certainty of existence. [Guy Hocquenghem]
Sex is not a fatality: it’s a possibility for creative life. [Michel Foucault]
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The Self-portrait of a Queer Researcher in Romeo and Juliet’s City: Preface to the English Edition
Verona, Italy, Southern Europe Careful! The book you are holding in your hands “incorrectly attributes the significance of political theory, or better yet, of real and true philosophical reflection to homosexual liberation movements, and thus gives rise to quite a few suspicions of manneristic intellectualism.” Or, at least, one of the members of the board that evaluated my publications at the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale [Nat
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