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Leo Bersani · 2010
A collection of essays exploring connections among sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, with particular focus on queer theory, sexual identity, and the politics of representation in the context of AIDS and contemporary culture.
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What this book knows
Sexuality, when stripped of redemptive narratives, shatters the bounded self and opens toward radically impersonal modes of relation.
erotic-as-power
being on top can never be just a question of a physical position—either for the person on top or for the one on the bottom.
RGOE-RC-023One of the stultifying things about the way people talk about sex is the distinction between activity and passivity.
RGOE-RC-185desire
the 'new gay identity was constructed through multiple encounters, shifts of sexual identification, actings out' … laments the 'wholesale de-sexualisation of gay culture.'
RGOE-RC-026Desire is construction, and law … Antonio's excited demand to be fucked can be addressed only to his own desire; it formulates the laws of his desire.
RGOE-RC-075self-and-identity
In the writers I study, identity is inseparable from specific positionings of the body in desire. Desire is depsychologized.
RGOE-RC-033Questions of identity are inseparable from questions about how we relate to both the human and the nonhuman world. Subjectivity … rethink the relational as a political and moral imperative.
RGOE-RC-003Illuminates
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