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Feminist, queer, and trans studies are all influenced significantly by anti-identitarian thought. Yet, contemporary gender and sexual identities only seem to be proliferating: nonbinary, graysexual, demigender, and more. This chapter focuses on a series of reference guides that schematize this recent expansion. Often miming reductive reference forms (the dictionary, the A-Z list), these texts and the questions they raise help to rethink the place of ‘identity’ across gender and sexuality studies.
Part of The Case for Reduction Containing:
Introduction / Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger
The Case and the Signifier / Iracema Dulley
Haptic Reductions / Rachel Aumiller
Disalienation and Structuralism / Christopher Chamberlin
Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism / Özgün Eylül İşcen
Lines that Reduce / Sam Dolbear
Post-anti-identitarianism
Nothing Beyond the Name / Sarath Jakka
Reduction in Computer Music / Federica Buongiorno
Reduction in Time / Alberica Bazzoni
Seeking Home / Amina ElHalawani
Law Is Other Wor(l)ds / Xenia Chiaramonte
On the List / Sam Dolbear, Ben Nichols, Claudia Peppel
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
Proust List Impulse / Sam Dolbear
A List of Fears / Claudia Peppel
How to Bake X Cake / Iracema Dulley
Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists / Rachel Aumiller
Title
Post-anti-identitarianism
Subtitle
The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality
Author(s)
Ben Nichols
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_07
Description
Feminist, queer, and trans studies are all influenced significantly by anti-identitarian thought. Yet, contemporary gender and sexual identities only seem to be proliferating: nonbinary, graysexual, demigender, and more. This chapter focuses on a series of reference guides that schematize this recent expansion. Often miming reductive reference forms (the dictionary, the A-Z list), these texts and the questions they raise help to rethink the place of ‘identity’ across gender and sexuality studies.
Is Part Of
The Case for Reduction
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
11 October 2022
Subject
Queer theory
Identity
Identity politics
Queer liberalism
Information
Proliferation
LGBTQIA+
Lists
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
135
page end
153
Source
The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 135–53
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