Where it fails: Normative violence, affective turn, and low theory in contemporary feminist studies
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gender, affections, queer theorySynopsis
This book is the result of in-depth conversations carried out by a handful of participants in a feminist theory research team at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, called: Emotions, temporalities, images: towards a critique of neoliberal sensibility. The series of texts that make up this book are structured around two main entries. The first explores the affective register and the task of archiving as forms of agency in the face of the violence inscribed in the norms that regulate us. In the second, the affective archive is linked to sexuality and postulation, to the pointing out of other small worlds that already exist within this one. This world is also the world to come, because the book is permeated by a critically misaligned gaze. There are already elements within these temporal coordinates that subvert them. In all cases, the places where the gaze falls can be considered low theory. The gaze rests on minor literature, on anime, on films, on urban processes, on the staging of that woman, on what is written on bathroom doors, or on what is theorized by those authors who are not taken too seriously by high theory.
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This world is also the world to come. Introductory words
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Agency, archive, and affections
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The bond that unites us: queer gestures in anime
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Invoke the file, write the impossibledrafts for thinking about an affective archive
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Groping aroundWays of dealing with darkness
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Violence towards marginalized groupsIndividualism, dispossession, and forms of agency
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Sex, emotions, worlds
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Eva's sexualityScenic formulations around the image of Eva Duarte
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Viral eroticismthe seropositive dispute over homoerotic pleasures
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Being sensitive isn't bad/ Talk to mePublic bathroom doors and the circulation of intimate emotions
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About the art of reforesting forests
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Epilogue
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