Madhavi Menon
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816695928
- author:
- Madhavi Menon
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm
- Genre:
- Gay & Lesbian, Literature, Drama
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Indifference to Difference: Queer Universalism by Madhavi Menon explores an alternative approach to identity politics. Badiou's concept of indifference is reexamined as a means to challenge the emphasis on identitarian specificity, instead embracing a universalism that recognizes shared powerlessness in containing desire. This book argues that turning to a different kind of universalism - one that acknowledges sameness in our inability to settle desire - can shift the focus away from difference and towards the worlds of desire. Menon contends that indifference is not about queerness as an identity, but rather about transforming queerness into a resistance against ontology. By detouring through the realm of desire, queer universalism evades traditional notions of identity. The book demonstrates that queerness is a condition within which we labor, and our desires are inherently indifferent to our differences.
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