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Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Madhavi Menon
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Description for Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 5S; DSB; HPS; JFSK; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism-not one that insists we are all different but one that recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness to contain desire-then difference no longer becomes the focus of our identity. Instead, we enter the worlds of desire. ... Read more
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism-not one that insists we are all different but one that recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness to contain desire-then difference no longer becomes the focus of our identity. Instead, we enter the worlds of desire. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816695928
SKU
V9780816695928
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About Madhavi Menon
Madhavi Menon is professor of English at Ashoka University. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film; and editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
Reviews for Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Madhavi Menon has written an exhilarating manifesto. The tough-minded courage of Menon's intervention is one of this book's great strengths; the fierce intelligence that shapes her arguments is another. Indifference to Difference pursues a supple, peripatetic, and deeply principled methodology, informed by a nuanced theoretical acumen that declares itself at every turn. -Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University