rethinking marxism queerly:
seven queries about the social articulation of desire, false consciousness,
hegemony of class-based theorizing, and hypostatizing centralism
abstract
A queer reading of Jean Genet's duology, "Les Bonnes" and "Haute
Surveillance," illustrates the lingual nature of overdetermination
[Resnick and Wolff, 1987]. This ver/mischung of meanings is tied to Maynard
Keynes' queer birthing of Bayesian analysis, Michel Foucault's épistémè
[1972], Barbara Ponse's principle of consistency [1978], Jeffrey Escoffier's
master code [1985], Sandra Bem's schema [1981], John R. Searle's Background
[1990, 1992, 1995] and Judith Butler's linguistic norms [1993] in order
to make an Althusserian run of the rapids between Hegelian teleological
mysticism and Hobbesian methodological individualism [Cullenberg, 1996].
I propose retrieving the notion of the desiring subject from its erasure
by Marx and note that queer political economy reinterprets the notion of
false consciousness. I urge leftists to get past an apparent hesitancy to
think queerly: queer theory's insights on marginalization, abjection, are
central to rethinking marxism.
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