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Queer Theory and the Specter of Materialism

Social Text, 2020
This article argues that the development of queer theory as a field has been critically shaped by a desire to dissociate the studies of gender and sexuality from material concerns. Though what is meant by “the material” varies wildly from context to context, queer critiques of materialism have produced an entrenched impression of the incommensurability
David L Eng, Petrus Liu, Jasbir Puar
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Mapping the hobosexual: A queer materialism

Sexualities, 2012
The following article introduces the hobosexual as a concept in queer materialism. Mapped at the intersection of not-for-profit hobo sex and labor practices historically, the hobosexual collapses the apparent impasse between the material and the symbolic so prevalent in queer studies. The concept represents the redeployment of queer as anti-capitalist
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Transnational Queer Materialism

South Atlantic Quarterly
The introduction to this special issue takes up the narrations and values produced by the travels of words like queer of color, race, and racial capitalism to both comobilize and retheorize queer of color critique and the content and contours of global racial capitalism.
Rana M. Jaleel, Evren Savcı
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New Materialism: An Experiment in Queer Thinking

2018
This chapter establishes the conceptual underpinnings of the book, providing an explanation of new materialism, queer theory, and their relationship. It also charts the theoretical relationship between post-humanism, feminism, and new materialism. As well as explaining how this book is both new materialist and queer, the chapter highlights how Barad ...
Louisa Elizabeth Allen
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Mirrors and Macbeth’s Queer Materialism

2019
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QUEER MATERIALITIES AND INSTAGRAM LIVE INTERVIEWING: COMMUNITY ENTANGLEMENTS

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020
Digital community making through a live entanglement of the self and social media, offers up new pathways for thinking through human and nonhuman divides. Queer activism and feminist art on Instagram has made way for a reframing of what constitutes a ‘digital community’ (boyd 2011, Baym 2015, Oakley 2018).
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Material Deviance: Theorizing Queer Objecthood

Postmodern Culture, 2011
Using the cable television show Hoarders as its primary case study, this essay offers a theory of "material deviance" that fuses a primary interest of material culture studies—the social status of objects—with a central concern of queer studies—the roles that deviance and normalization play in social management.
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Warhol’s 1960s’ Films, Amphetamine, and Queer Materiality

Criticism, 2014
Critics and historians have traditionally made too little of Warhol's insistence, throughout his 1960s' memoirs, that "[t]he big social thrust behind the Factory from '64 to '67 was amphetamine,"1 and that much that went on at the Factory, artistically or otherwise, had some connection with the drug.
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Materially Queer: Identity and Agency in Academic Writing

2020
This dissertation argues for a material understanding of identity and agency in the production of academic writing. Queer scholarship in composition-rhetoric, which I call Queer Composition, positions “queering” as a metaphoric and immaterial stance against normativity, emphasizing experimental writing and discursive resistance to academic norms while,
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Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive; Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Australian Feminist Studies, 2015
The two books reviewed here were published in the last two years by Litwin Books and they each engage with contemporary thinking about queer practices and the galleries, libraries, archives and mus...
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