After queer theory : the limits of sexual politics

Penney, James 1971- (author.).

Summary: After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signaling the end of anti homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. Through a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism is paradoxically to abandon the exhausted premise of a politicised sexuality. After Queer Theory argues that it is necessary to wrest sexuality from the dead-end of identity politics, opening it up to a universal emancipatory struggle beyond the reach of capitalism's powers of commodification.

Record details

ISBN: 0745333788
ISBN: 9780745333786
ISBN: 0745333796
ISBN: 9780745333793
ISBN: 1849649855
ISBN: 9781849649858
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 212 pages)
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Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction after queer theory : manifesto and consequences -- 1. Currents of queer -- 2. The universal alternative -- 3. Is there a queer marxism? -- 4. Capitalism and schizoanalysis -- 5. The sameness of sexual difference -- 6. From the antisocial to the immortal.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).