{"id":10457,"date":"2013-02-19T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:26:52","slug":"deleuze-queering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/02\/19\/deleuze-queering\/","title":{"rendered":"deleuze queering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colebrook, Claire. \u201cQueer Vitalism.\u201d New Formations<\/em>, 68, Spring 2010. 77-92.<\/p>\n

In contemporary discourses of the subject, such as Judith Butler’s, one must subject oneself to enabling and recognisable norms. To be recognised by, and with, others requires some determined personality. But those necessary norms and figures of personhood are at odds with the act, performance or event which brings them into being. On this account, personhood comes into being through moments or decisions which are perceived only after the event as the outcome of a performance that must be posited as having been. We do not see, live or intuit performativity itself, only its effects. A politics and vitalising imperative follows: do not be seduced by normativity. Recognise that the self who is performed and recognised is at odds with the less stable – one might say ‘queer’ – vital self who acts (who ‘acts but is not’).<\/p>\n

This ‘man in general,’ according to Deleuze and Guattari is achieved historically and politically by unifying complex differences into some single figure.<\/p>\n

The same applies to ‘woman,’ ‘lesbian,’ ‘trans-sexual’ or – in some cases – ‘queer.’ If the latter term denotes a group of bodies who seek recognition on the basis of their relation to, or difference from, other bodies then ‘queer’ forms a majoritarian mode of politics: a political force that reduces difference for the sake of creating a political subject group.<\/p>\n

If, however, ‘queer’ were to operate vitally it would aim to signal the positive potentialities from which groups were formed: there could only be lesbian women because certain differences are possible (such as sexual difference, and difference in orientation), but that would then lead to further and further difference, not only to each individual but within each individual.<\/p>\n

Minoritarian politics moves in the opposite direction from recognition and aims to maximise the circumstances for the proliferation and pulverisation of differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colebrook, Claire. \u201cQueer Vitalism.\u201d New Formations, 68, Spring 2010. 77-92. In contemporary discourses of the subject, such as Judith Butler’s, one must subject oneself to enabling and recognisable norms. To be recognised by, and with, others requires some determined personality. But those necessary norms and figures of personhood are at odds with the act, performance … Continue reading “deleuze queering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deleuze","category-desire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10461,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}