Matter, Affect, AntiNormativity Theory Beyond Dualism

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Subjects: Affect; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Culture; Gender Studies; Karen Barad; Michel Foucault; New Materialism; Postcolonialism; Sara Ahmed; Science; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• ISBN: 9783837661668; 9783839461662
• Access: Open Access

Dualistic thinking has been questioned by some writers associated with the material, ontological, and affective turns. Yet, these and other writers linked to the ›turns‹ have themselves reproduced dualistic theorizing. Caroline Braunmühl also shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. From a perspective sympathetic to the critical efforts made by poststructuralist and related theorists, she analyzes works by Sara Ahmed, Karen Barad, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discourse and negativity/affirmation.