[-empyre-] queer "love-machine" and Haraway's 'other-worlding'

[naxsmash]

I too find that Haraway has something wonderful going ('mess making'   
in the mess hall). Virginia has touched
  on this too, the way of thinking about 'queer' as a functional  
shift, or even 'clinamen' (swerve)-- just trying to develop
an nominative (naming ) of queer as noun makes it disappear (rather,  
it is in transaction, translation.  Thats why
it's so interesting , Like MIcha's 'mess-making'  Haraway's new term  
'other-worlding' as a gerund (a noun in English containing an implied  
action, via the 'ing' ending).
  AND in "When Species Meet," Haraway does this beautiful thing, of  
asking the word 'figure' to become a transitive, too.  She writes,

"Figures help me grapple inside the flesh of mortal world-making  
entanglements that i call contact zones.  The Oxford English  
Dictionary records the meaning
of 'chimerical vision' for 'figuration' in an eighteenth century  
source, and that meaning is still implicit in my sense of figure.  
Figures collect the people through
their invitation to inhabit the corporeal story told in their  
lineaments.."

c

Micha writes,

>
> although i'm not excited about holding on to war metaphors, so i  
> wonder
> if we can think of it as more of a love-machine that breaks down by
> binding and reconfigures relationality along new configurations? can  
> we
> think of queer as an anti-categorical category? i often have a  
> suspicion
> that when we discuss artwork as queer we're actually talking about art
> done by people who identify as l, g, b, t, q or i, but perhaps the
> self-identification of work as queer is the best indicator? i'm not an
> art historian, so excuse me if i'm asking naive questions...  
> personally
> i find haraway's recent writing in When Species Meet to be most  
> fruitful
> on "queer mess making" (mess as in eating together) and rethinking
> kinship and relationality by thinking through cross-species and
> transspecies relationships and the kinds of communication necessary  
> and
> operations that unfold there...
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