Queer Studies Reading Group: May 2007

Friday, May 25, 2007

Invitations to Queer Studies Reading Group

As I get more e-mails from people wanting to be on the QSRG, I, or others, will add them. This is a completely open forum, and anyone should be able to post. If you can't post, or have other similar issues, then e-mail me at robtsum@aol.com and/or robtsum@ucla.edu

Swimmingly, robt

Sunday, May 20, 2007

William Haver: Pornographic Life

Dear Queer Studies Reading Group (QSRG),

I have attached the first reading for the reading group. I hope that this will get more techo-savvy, and if anyone has any suggestions, then please, by all means, share.

I hope that you will find this reading interesting, and I hope that we can have an interesting dialogue.

Robert Summers
ABD/PhD, UCLA, Art History

D&G on Desire

“[D]esire is always ‘outside’; it always belongs to a minority. For me there is no heterosexual sexuality. Once there’s heterosexuality…there’s no more desire, no more sexuality” (Guattari, “The Liberation of Desire,” 213). Deleuze and Guattari maintain that the end point of all becomings is a becoming-imperceptible. This is likewise the end point of glory hole sex—to become-imperceptible, to remain anonymous, to keep the organs from being organized into an organism. Gloryhole sex composes a series that includes a becoming-molecular, becoming-woman, and finally a becoming-imperceptible so that desire remains at the molecular level outside molarity and organized bodies.

Pornographic Life

“Porn ... is not a substitute for sexual pleasure, but offers itself as sexual pleasure; insofar as it does so, its address is not to a subject's gaze, but to the body's capacity for pleasure, its capacity to see more than it looks at, to hear more than it listens to, to think more than it conceives. The pornographic life is life insofar as it is attentive to those possibilities. And, if you recall your last heavy cruise, you will remember that the life lived pornographically is among the most rigorous of disciplines: pleasure, after all, is hard work.” (p. 13) You can find Willliam Haver's essay at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a741921158~db=all

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Invitations to Queer Studies Reading Group

Sunday, May 20, 2007

William Haver: Pornographic Life

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