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Indifference to Difference - On Queer Universalism (Paperback)
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Indifference to Difference - On Queer Universalism (Paperback)
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Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's
suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian
specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being
indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the
superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity.
Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of
universalism-not one that insists we are all different but one that
recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness to contain
desire-then difference no longer becomes the focus of our identity.
Instead, we enter the worlds of desire. Following up on ideas of
sameness and difference that have animated queer theory, Menon
argues that what is most queer about indifference is not that it
gives us queerness as an identity but that it is able to change
queerness into a resistance of ontology. Firmly committed to the
detours of desire, queer universalism evades identity. This
polemical book demonstrates that queerness is the condition within
which we labor. Our desires are not ours to be owned; they are
indifferent to our differences.
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