Full Description
What might it mean to queer the Human? By extension, how is the Human employed within queer theory? These questions invite a reconsideration of the way we think about queer theory, the category of the Human and the act of queering itself. This interdisciplinary volume of essays gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies who have written on topics as diverse as Christ, the Antichrist, dogs, starfish, werewolves, vampires, murderous dolls, cartoons, corpses, bacteria, nanoengineering, biomesis, the incest taboo, the death drive and the 'queer' in queer theory. Contributors include Robert Azzarello, Karen Barad, Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Claire Colebrook, Noreen Giffney, Judith Halberstam, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Myra J. Hird, Karalyn Kendall, Vicki Kirby, Alice Kuzniar, Patricia MacCormack, Robert Mills, Luciana Parisi and Erin Runions.
Contents
Introduction; 1: How Queer Can You Go? Theory, Normality and Normativity; 2: (Con)founding 'the Human': Incestuous Beginnings; 3: Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism: The Death Drive and the Human; 4: Queering the Beast: The Antichrists' Gay Wedding; 5: Queering the Un/Godly: Christ's Humanities and Medieval Sexualities; 6: Unnatural Predators: Queer Theory Meets Environmental Studies in Bram Stoker's Dracula; 7: The Werewolf as Queer, the Queer as Werewolf, and Queer Werewolves; 8: The Face of a Dog: Levinasian Ethics and Human/Dog Co-evolution; 9: 'I Married My Dog': On Queer Canine Literature; 10: Animal Trans 1; 11: Lessons From a Starfish; 12: Animating Revolt/Revolting Animation: Penguin Love, Doll Sex and the Spectacle of the Queer Nonhuman; 13: The Nanoengineering of Desire; 14: Queer Causation and the Ethics of Mattering; 15: Necrosexuality; Afterword An Unfinished Conversation About Glowing Green Bunnies 1
