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

[virginia solomon]

might we also think this with putting the action back into social movements,
where movement is motion as well as a noun presenting the fact of social
justice activity?

within the text I mentioned earlier, Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the
Oppressed, she specifically stresses the motion of the root move within the
word movement, pointing to third world and women of color feminist movements
as enacting a politics of differential consciousness, of understanding
identification and subjectivity as not just unfixed because they're mutable
but unfixed because they move and circulate.  and we move and circulate
among them.

particularly given that I think queer aesthetic practices as a part of the
cultural politics of queer life, this all carries significant resonance for
me.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:46 PM, naxsmash <naxsmash at mac.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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Virginia Solomon
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