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Queer Spaces - Readings - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'history of trauma often depends on the evidence of memory'
    - - 'unusual emotional archive necessary to record the often traumatic history of gay and lesbian culture'
        
        'while any archive is haunted by the specter of death, its literal and traumatic presence in any aids collection serves as a vivid reminder that archives can be motivated by emotional rather than intellectual needs'
        
        'the emotional need for history'
        
        C 'left to construct her own version of history'
        
        'then death will no longer be absolute'
        
        'thinking of the archive as a memorial to the dead, one that must perform the work of mourning on a personal level...there will remain a need for grassroots and community-based archives'
- - - - Queers as a societal threat to this
      - ‘‘a paradigm of human sexuality divorced from family and procreation, and engaged in solely for the sake of...sensual pleasure and gratification.'
    - - Queerness disrupts futurism as a 'threat to meaning' where meaning is found in a 'future continuously deferred'
      - 'sinthomosexuality, which aims to dissociate heteronormativity from its own implication in the drive'
    - - 'The narrative that raises meaninglessness as a possibility, after all, necessarily bestows a particular meaning on such meaninglessness itself.'
    - - '‘‘this illusion of a life that is only an afterlife.’’'
      - ‘a kind of antilife as sexuality, frenetic enjoyment [jouissance], the negative, the repetition compulsion.’’
  - - - 'defense against the ego's certain end'
      - 'fantasy setting' as 'mise-en-scène'
    - - 'the sinthome's centrality to the subject's accession to the Symbolic'
      - 'the sinthome "is literally our only substance"'
    - - '‘‘artificial’’ seems largely a dia- critical term intended to naturalize the procreative function of hetero- sexual intercourse'
      - sex acc is [Derrida]: ‘‘as expenditure without reserve, as the irreparable loss of presence, the irreversible usage of energy, that is, as the death instinct.’’
- - - - 'deconstruction' and understanding identities as 'detoured to meanings outside themselves'
    - - 'toward the dead or toward that which was impossible in a given historical moment, each understood as calls for a di√erent future to which we cannot but answer with imperfect and incomplete reparations'
        
        'the present...split by prior violence and future possibility'
        
        'new forms of justice that coun- ter the chrononormative and chronobiopolitical'
        
        'contemporary critical theory the body itself seems an im- possible object with which or through which to think historically'
        
        "body theory" - what is?
        
        body not static - temporal, social relations...
        
        'traumas that precede and determine bodiliness itself, that make matter into bodies'
        
        'body is less a metaphor for time than it is the means for and e√ect of convoluting time,'
        
        'out of time' when reject chromonormative stepping stones like marriage
- - - - 'o√ered ways out of rationalized time by privileg- ing the index, the archive, the gap between frames, and other devices that stopped or ‘‘lost’’ time'
      - ' it is the simulacrum, the figure itself, and not the real that paradoxically enables and enacts a bodily form of apprehending history—both the past and the collectivized potential for change'
      - 'These works suggest that queer pleasures are at once matters of the body, matters of timing, and tropes for encountering'
- - - - 'heterochronic Foucauldian cemetary'
        
        'mixed intermediate experience' (heterotopia - between real and virtual)
      - Munoz's 'not yet' future 'does not extend out of the ideological impasses of the present'
        
        also - 'no longer conscious'
  - - - 'Apostle of California' - colonial tho
      - Earlier one - 'renowned jester to the lord'
        
        he gave dying man his final wish - pity for the dying?
  - - - the Concept
        
        'science fiction as a privileged narrative form...to map the space of the Possible'
        
        'being the expression of another world, Autrui represents the Possible, the tangent that brings outside from the inscribed virtual: the tangent that pushes the subject to wander in the fields of the undetermined.'
    - - broken mirror --> new (type of) reality
      - 'hyperreal'
        
        'San Junipero appears thus in countless ways a more than perfect replica of all the places and times it purports to be. In its different figurations, it is
        ‘more ’80s or ’90s’ than those eras could ever be'
        
        'the real emerges as a left-over of truth'
        
        “All of the real is residual, and everything that is residual is destined to repeat itself indefinitely in phantasms,” (146) the vanquished real is destined to haunt the hyperreal'