Deleuze and Sex

Deleuze and Sex PDF Author: Frida Beckman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688994
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.

Deleuze and Sex

Deleuze and Sex PDF Author: Frida Beckman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688994
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.

Deleuze and Gender

Deleuze and Gender PDF Author: Claire Colebrook
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147446582X
Category : PHILOSOPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A unique new study which extends Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference and gender politics.

Between Desire and Pleasure

Between Desire and Pleasure PDF Author: Frida Beckman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748645934
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophy. How is sexual pleasure inscribed into conceptions of the body, gender, health and the human? What is its role in the construction of these notions? And, most importantly, how can it contribute to an expansion of what they mean?Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman addresses these questions to recover a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work.

Deleuze and Queer Theory

Deleuze and Queer Theory PDF Author: Chrysanthi Nigianni
Publisher: Deleuze Connections
ISBN: 9780748634057
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The field of 'queer theory' has long been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and the focus on performativity. This collection of work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality.

What IS Sex?

What IS Sex? PDF Author: Alenka Zupancic
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262534134
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)—even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, “What is sex?” rather more complex. In this volume in the Short Circuits series, Alenka Zupančič approaches the question from just this perspective, considering sexuality a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis; and by psychoanalysis, she means that of Freud and Lacan, not that of the kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan “orthopedists of the unconscious.” Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

Sleights of Reason

Sleights of Reason PDF Author: Mary Beth Mader
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438434332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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A brilliant and original reimagining of sexuality, this book examines how concepts lend themselves to power/knowledge formations, and offers a robust synthesis of insights from Foucault and Deleuze to extend those into a proposal for a conceptual next step for imagining the structures of sexuality as eros. Many contemporary French philosophers make incidental use of the notion of a ruse. Its names are legion: 'duplicity,' 'concealment,' 'forgetting,' and 'subterfuge,' among others. This book employs Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the concept to describe three specifically conceptual ruses, or sleights, that make up part of the conceptual support for the concept of sex. These are the sleights associated with the concepts of norm, bisexuality and development. Mary Beth Mader argues that concepts can trick us, and shows how they can effect conceptual sleights, or what she calls sleights of reason.

Sex After Life

Sex After Life PDF Author: Claire Colebrook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785420122
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the all too human logics of survival.

Radical Sex Between Men

Radical Sex Between Men PDF Author: Dave Holmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315399520
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.

Sex and Culture

Sex and Culture PDF Author: Joseph Daniel Unwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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The Science/fiction of Sex

The Science/fiction of Sex PDF Author: Annie Potts
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415257312
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction and femininity and masculinity.