Deleuze And Queer Theory

Series Editor: Ian Buchanan DeleuzeandQueer Theory Edited by Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr ‘This is a brilliant and well-timed collection of state-of-the-arts essays. It conclusively proves that queerness has to do not only with identity politics and performative stances, but also with material and collective experiments with radical otherness and un-programmed intensity.’ Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University and Honorary Professor at Birkbeck College London Deleuze and QueerTHeory Deleuze Connections Deleuze Connections Deleuze and QueerTheory This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, it suggests an alternative to Butler’s matter/representation binary. It thus dares to ask how to think sexuality and sex outside the discursive and linguistic context that has come to dominate contemporary research in social sciences and humanities. Contributors: Claire Colebrook, Verena A. Conley, Jonathan Kemp, Patricia MacCormack, Anna Hickey-Moody, Chrysanthi Nigianni, Dorothea Olkowski, Luciana Parisi, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Margrit Shildrick and Mikko Tuhkanen. Chrysanthi Nigianni is a PhD candidate at the University of East London. She has taught at the University of East London and at Anglia Ruskin University. Merl Storr is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. She is the author of Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties (2003). Eds Nigianni and Storr Deleuze and Queer Theory is a provocative and often militant collection that explores a diverse range of themes including: the revisiting of the term ‘queer’; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze/Guattari philosophy. It will be essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze’s and Guattari’s philosophy, but also in the fields of sexuality, gender and feminist theory. Cover design: River Design, Edinburgh ISBN 978 0 7486 3405 7 www.euppublishing.com Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 22 George Square, Edinburgh Edited by Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr Chapter Title i Deleuze and Queer Theory Deleuze Connections ‘It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.’ Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues General Editor Ian Buchanan Editorial Advisory Board Keith Ansell-Pearson Rosi Braidotti Claire Colebrook Tom Conley Gregg Lambert Adrian Parr Paul Patton Patricia Pisters Titles Available in the Series Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory Ian Buchanan and John