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Queer Universal
Rebekah Sheldon
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Recent feminist and queer theorizations have turned emphatically away from the ambitions of late twentieth-century universalism in favor of particular forms of life. Lightning, atoms, jellyfish, and fetuses teem from the pages of prominent journals, as do HeLa cells, extinct aurouchs, wooly coral reefs, sacred pipestone, indigenous cosmologies, toxic dumps, and transgender frogs. 1 This patchwork of objects and life-forms has much to say about the ineradicable openness of the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2016
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Universalism, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Epistemology