Desiring tension : towards a queer politics of paradox
- The article provides a close reading of the video "Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself", dir. by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (2004, 5'). It reads the video as promoting what it calls a 'queer politics of paradox', that is, a politics that acknowledges desire as a constitutive moment of the political and at the same time challenges the political via a queer understanding of desire in order to make room for the political articulation of the Other. The article argues that a reworking of the political - one that aims at de-centring its hegemonic dynamic and creating space for Otherness - becomes possible if one invites paradox as a specific, anti-identitarian, and agonistic mode of tension to function as a constitutive moment of desire and of the political.
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| Author: | Antke Engel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514093 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/engel_desiring-tension.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-01_12 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/10/15 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/10/16 |
| Tag: | Paradox; Politics; Queer theory; Tension; Video |
| GND Keyword: | Boudry, Pauline; Lorenz, Renate; Queer-Theorie; Paradoxon; Kurzfilm |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 227 |
| Last Page: | 250 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 455251916 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
