Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism - and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: fin-de-siecle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the 'stud file' or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place. -- .

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism - and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: fin-de-siecle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the 'stud file' or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place. -- .

The 'Reflections' series is a compilation of writings and thoughts from Sifu Freddie Lee. The series has been entitled 'Reflections' as they are Sifu Lee's thoughts, his reflections, but also because these thoughts have been compiled to act as a mirror, to reflect the direction that individuals and society in general is going and to draw people's attention to these problems the way mirrors often attract people's attention. Each volume covers a range of topics such as identifying the ego, healthy (and unhealthy) physical training and discovering happiness pursuing an Art. These topics are broadly split into the three facets of human development; the body, the mind and the spirit. Only through the development and training of each of these three aspects of human existence can a person become truly balanced, healthy and happy. Every chapter has been written with the hope that it will encourage you to think about your own life and your own reality. You are not expected to blindly agree with everything that is said but maybe it will encourage you to discover what truly motivates you, what truly makes you happy and to truly help you discover your own Way.

This novel is a recollection of short stories that follows Seadog, a misguided product of the cyberpunk revolution, as he wonders his way as a ghost through the wireless world that surrounds us all. Watch from behind the helm as he sails his ship into distant previously unknown waters plundering our network resources and looting our personal information.