A queer whatever: political figures of non-identity

Authors

  • Marco Pustianaz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13131/2611-657X.whatever.v1i1.4

Keywords:

whateverness, identity politics, difference, empty signifier, becoming-common

Abstract

The essay proposes a journey through whateverness, in an attempt to rethink difference through a desire for a ‘whatever difference’ – a difference that is not specifically different – and a desire for a being with no specific name. The essay maps out the whateverness at work in queer theory and politics, and consists of six texts: Text 1 is “Whatever!” On exasperation”; Text 2 is “A trip to the death zone” (on Queer Nation); Text 3 is “Queer demos. Plunging into the whatever of democracy” (on Jacques Rancière); Text 4 is “The force of emptiness” (on Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau); Text 5 is “Agamben in the disco: pausal politics” (on Agamben and disco dancers); Text 6 is “Becoming whatever” (on Paul B Preciado Testo Junkie).

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Published

2018-07-01

Issue

Vol. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

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