Issue #17 Desire for/within Economic Transformation

Desire for/within Economic Transformation

Antke Engel

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Issue #17
June 2010










Notes
1

J. K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996).

2

J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), xxx.

3

Ibid., 79.

4

Ibid., 56.

5

Ibid., 7.

6

Ibid., xxiii.

7

Ibid., 85, 86.

8

See Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism, 27ff.

9

Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 6.

10

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, trans. Winston Moore and Paul Cammack (London: Verso, 1985).

11

Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, xxxiii.

12

Ibid., xxxvi.

13

Ibid., xxxi, xxxii.

14

Ibid., xxi, xxviii.

15

See Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism, 120ff.

16

See Samuel Chambers and Terrell Carver, Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics (London: Routledge, 2008).

17

See Antke Engel, “Traveling Images: Desire as Movement; Desire as Method,” in Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies, ed. Tomasz Basiuk, Dominika Ferens, and Tomasz Sikora (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), 13–24.

18

See . The conference organizers are Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christoph Holzhey, and Volker Woltersdorff.

19

Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 3.

20

Ibid., 20, xxxv, 6, xxxvi, 132.

21

Ibid., xxiii, 13, 129, 7.

22

Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977, ed. Colin Gordon, trans. Colin Gordon et al. (New York: Pantheon, 1980); Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1 (1972), trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (London and New York: Continuum, 2004).

23

Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 13.

24

Ibid., 99 and 6.

25

Ibid., xxxv.

26

Ibid., xxxiii.

27

Ibid., 129.

28

Ibid., 6. For reflection on the action research process see 127ff.

29

Ibid., 154–155.

30

Ibid., 160.

31

Ibid., 138, 155.

32

See Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004), 131–151.

33

This and the following quotations: Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 128.

34

Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2006), 31.

35

See Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994), and Elspeth Probyn, Outside Belongings (New York: Routledge, 1996).

36

See Elizabeth Grosz, “Refiguring Lesbian Desire,” in The Lesbian Postmodern, ed. Laura Doan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 67–84.

37

See notes 35 and 17.

38

See Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 162.

39

I undertook such a project in Antke Engel, Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie (Bielefeld: transcript, 2009), where I read artistic and media imagery of gender ambiguities and dissident sexualities, examining how queer and neoliberal cultural politics intersect.

40

See Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love, xix.

41

Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 129.

42

Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, “Fantasy and the Origins of Sexuality,” in Formations of Fantasy, ed. Victor Burgin, James Donald, and Cora Kaplan (London: Methuen, 1986), 5–34.

43

This quote and the following: Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics, 16.

For Julie Graham, who left much too early.