Perhaps "I" am faceless
a post/modern desiring/desired body
But names and their semiotic counterpart, faces, are useful: they give us handles on particular people and ideas, handles we can use in our inner dialogues and in our conversations with other people. Perhaps the best face to introduce the queer insurgency is:
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The picture above of Maynard Keynes honors the person who had the
biggest impact on economics and on international finance in the 20th century
and whose initial work in Bayesian analysis,
as well as his careful records of his many lovers and erotic activities,
served to open the door to queer political economy as described in my piece below,
"deconstructing silence: the queer political economy of the social
articulation of desire," which opened the discipline of queer political economy.
This picture was painted by Duncan Grant in 1908 when
Keynes and Grant first fell in love. Grant and Keynes were likely
the first big loves of each other's lives and remained very close throughout
their lives (see Jeffrey Escoffier, John Maynard Keynes [1995]
New York: Chelsea). Click here, Keynes as a
Bayesian, for a short (17K) sketch of Keynes's queer birthing of
Bayesian analysis which is the starting point for mathematical queer analytics.
- Several morsels are downloadable by clicking on the blue words-of-power:
Click here, Queer Ballet, if you have the patience/modem to download 120K of Duncan Grant's queer view of ballet AND if you have gotten approval of a Parent-in-the-Sky and of President George W. to view heterosexism-inflaming pictures. Damn, I suppose you've already encountered two such pics; but those nudies above were sooo vanilla; they likely didn't even queer your mind a bit!
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OK, here is a "NAME" for the facilitator of this website ("owner" in good capitalist parlance).
I'm Richard Cornwall, occasional activist, professor of economics and scholar in queer
political economy, queer poetry/literature/cinema, (neo)marxism, socioeconomic inequality,
... as well as former barback, sex club worker, ... Hey, thinking queerly requires
experiential wisdom and it straddles academic disciplines since it looks at the social
articulation of desire and, especially, of Other - social abjection - tied
to erotic desire.
For me, the route to the deepest social change, true INSURGENCY, is to find new ways to think, new poetics by which to channel our thinking. I am what Keynes called an academic scribbler, hoping that future generations will find some cognitive morsels to feed their thinking. This website below offers a few windows into my professing queerly.
2. . . . Why Vegan? -- this is not yet available, but here is a link to a good site:
3. . . . Worker Management: Democracy in the Workplace? -- this is not yet available; it is now merely a dream in my head.
4. . . . Social Inequality - New Thinking Yet to be Articulated!!
5. . . . New Ways of organizing the polity -- New Thinking Yet to be Articulated!!
6. . . . GLBTQCulture In the Global Economy
7. . . . Bathhouses: Rough notes by an economist on this cultural war over "privacy" in SF
8. . . . Closing Down Queer San Francisco?
9. . . . L'héritage et la fécondité des travaux de Michel Foucault dans l'économie politique
Letter disseminated as part of the conference, " Foucault throughout the world," held at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 17-18 May 2000.
10. . . . Abst:SocIdent for an abstract of "A primer on queer theory for economists interested in social identities" Feminist Economics 4 (2) [Summer 1998] 73-82.
11. . . . Abst:Queering Political Economy to see an abstract of the first piece aimed at queering economic theory: "deconstructing silence: the queer political economy of the social articulation of desire." which is in the Review of Radical Political Economics, 29, 1 (March 1997).
12. . . . APPENDIX to "deconstructing silence: the queer political economy of the social articulation of desire." This is an abbreviated version (50 K) of the simulation program used to derive the results presented in "deconstructing silence: the queer political economy of the social articulation of desire." It has all the pieces required to replicate the silico-society I constructed which is why I make it available here.
13. . . . Abst:Rethink to "rethinking marxism queerly: seven queries about the social articulation of desire, false consciousness, hegemony of class-based theorizing, and hypostatizing centralism" which is being revised currently.
14. . . . QUEERING COURSES is the portal to three courses I offered to queer thinking at Middlebury College.
15. . . . QUEER POETICS offers a Genet-inspired overview
of my thinking from a more poetic perspective (83K).
Again, thank you Steven Arnold;
this comes from page 85 of
Lust: The Body Politic.
1991 Los Angeles: The Advocate (Liberation Publications).
16. . . . RICHARD BIO gives a brief sketch and, if you really want to pin me to the wall, a traditional academic C.V. can be accessed from inside here.
17. . . . O'Keeffe's writhing fellows, shows one of Georgia O'Keeffe's views (83K) of the countryside around Middlebury College, Vermont, where over the space of twenty plus years, I was QUEERED in a big way. You will also get a look at an early version of "institutional homophobia of discursive inertia, a queerly theoretic case study." which gives some of my story at this "institution of higher learning."
18. . . . SEND ME AN EMAIL if you are so inclined.
Note: the heavy lifting with html which was required to first get this web page up and running some years ago was done by my son, Jeremy; recent updating is mere imitation! Robert Roberts (A.K.A. maddog) facilitates its current appearance as well as having etched the tattooes, more of which are visible on my other sites.
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[Le rôle de l'intellectuel] ... Michel Foucault, p. 181 |
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A rose of a man.
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le miracle
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