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    Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina

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    "Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational ... Read more

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    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
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  • The Queer Art of Failure

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

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    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

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  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    Series Book 50 - Sexual Cultures
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    by Richard Dyer ...
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  • Time Binds

    Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

    Series series Perverse modernities
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