Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms
| Autor: | Eileen Joy, Uri McMillan, Jami Weinstein, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Susan Stryker, Myra J. Hird, Kim TallBear, Jinthana Haritaworn, José Esteban Muñoz, Jasbir K. Puar, Jack Halberstam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 21:209-248 |
| ISSN: | 1527-9375 1064-2684 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/10642684-2843323 |
| Popis: | My recent writing has revolved around describing an ontopoetics of race that I name the sense of the brownness in the world. Brownness is meant to be an expansive category that stretches outside the confines of any one group formation and, furthermore, outside the limits of the human and the organic. Thinking outside the regime of the human is simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. It is a ceaseless endeavor, a continuous straining to make sense of something else that is never fully knowable. To think the inhuman is the necessary queer labor of the incommensurate. The fact that this thing we call the inhuman is never fully knowable, because of our own stuckness within humanity, makes it a kind of knowing that is incommensurable with the protocols of human knowledge production. Despite the incommensurability, this seeming impossibility, one must persist in thinking in these inhuman directions. Once one stops doing the incommensurate work of attempting to touch inhumanity, one loses traction and falls back onto the predictable coordinates of a relationality that announces itself as universal but is, in fact, only a substrata of the various potential interlays of life within which one is always inculcated. The radical attempt to think incommensurate queer inhumanity is a denaturalizing and unsettling of the settled, sedimented, and often ferocious world of recalcitrant antiinhumanity. Queer thought is, in large part, about casting a pic |
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