...Peter Rehberg Beyond parody, gay men’s identification with heteromasculinity, in its dead seriousness, appears to Bersani as being almost mad. In spatial terms, madness marks a proximity to—and not a distance between—powerfully normative images of gender. In his reading of the dynamics of madness...

... legacy of “mad” bodily thinking gets rearchived, recharged, and resuscitated; and why this ethical madness, and queer feminist eros in particular, persists as a problem haunting the (para)cogitational void between one and the other, especially that queer living zone between bios and thanato s...

...Penelope Deutscher A response to Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault and Are the Lips a Grave ?, this article considers Huffer’s critical reaction to characterizations of feminism as dominated by a more moral tenor repudiated by queer theory. Huffer argues that a stronger distinction should...

.... Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977 . ____. Madness and Civilization . Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988 . ____. The Order of Things . New York:Vintage, 1994 . Hardt, Michael. “Spinoza's Democracy: The Passions of Social Assemblages.” Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New...

... That Matter . New York : Routledge , 1993 . Derrida Jacques . “ Cogito and the History of Madness .” Writing and Difference . Trans. Bass Alan . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1978 . Descartes René . Cogitationes Privatae. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes . Trans...

... up short before a series of baffling questions: What is desubjectivation? What is an “ethical practice”? What possible sort of relation could obtain between the two? Driven as it is by Huffer’s “fascination” with desubjectivation, Are the Lips a Grave? returns to an unresolved question in Mad...

... . Derrida, Jacques. “Cogito and the History of Madness.” Writing and Difference . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1978 . 31 -63. ———. “Force of Law. The Mystical Foundation of Authority.” Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice . Ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michael Rosenfeld, and David...

... of spirituality—became the subject’s path to truth” ( “Will” 154 ). As much as Foucault suggests in History of Madness that the Age of Reason undergoes a second birth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century medical reforms—and then in nineteenth-century positivist psychology as a counterpoint of sorts...

... and absence; in turn, problematics of near inaudibility are subordinated to this logic. Take the dogfight between Derrida and Foucault on the relation of madness to reason; it is, at heart, a debate about the possibility of silent silences...

... of the disciplinary frame, consider the status of “the murmur” (le murmur) in Michel Foucault’s The History of Madness. I cite from the 1961 preface at length. History is only possible against the backdrop of the absence...

..., of something that cannot exist. But like the terra nullius that justified colonial expansion, that ground is not empty, but peopled. Seen as a void, it is in fact inhabited: “vide et peuplé,” as Foucault puts it in the original preface to History of Madness ( “‘Préface’” 191 ). That empty and peopled space...

... simply add that Foucault was already thinking about power in explicitly anticolonial terms when he wrote History of Madness in the late 1950s. The book was written during the Algerian War and published the year before Algerian independence. Given those events, it is hard not to hear the anticolonial...

..., 1993 . ———. “Cogito and the History of Madness.” Writing and Difference 31 -63. ———. Edmund Husserl's “Origin of Geometry”: An Introduction . Trans. John P. Leavey. Stony Brook: Nicholas Hays, 1978 . ———. “Force of Law: The `Mystical Foundation of Authority.' ” Acts of Religion . Ed. Gil...

... Daniel Patrick . “ The Negro Family: The Case for National Action .” Office of Policy Planning and Research . United States Department of Labor . Mar. 1965 . “ Out of Town .” Mad Men . AMC 16 Aug. 2009 . “ Second Chunce .” Parks and Recreation . NBC 9 Jan. 2014...

... complies with an ordinary, enlightened, intersubjective view of reality. The other kind includes inexplicable and enigmatic occurrences, in manners that suggest that such visions might just as well be merely the effects of madness...

... or veil, cut off from view, when he reduces Antigone's "knowledge" to intuition, when he claims that her ethical sensibility is not true ethical knowledge, because it does not know itself as such, because it is immediate rather than reflected, because it consists of divine feeling (madness?) rather than...

..., and Sami Schalk have produced sumptuous critical readings that foreground the erotic possibilities within the world-making of writers, poets, and visual artists at the intersections of black, queer, and crip (see Black Gathering ; How to Go Mad ; and Bodyminds Reimagined , respectively). From...

.... If Johnson, in this deeply felt sentence, dissolves, in a sense, into Lady Macbeth—and Lady Macbeth at the moment when she is dissolving into madness herself—then the basis for the sentence’s pathos, the lyric “person,” must dissolve...

... interest in prisons, discipline, punishment and madness (extensions of his own erotic preoccupations); and even Foucault's professional appointments. During his two years at the University of Tunisia in the mid-60s, where Foucault conceived and executed the dense and difficult Archaeology oj Knowledge...

... of having wished earlier in the poem to “flee from the cruel madness of love” (1.156). The heart of stone turns out not to be the opposite of the heart of flesh but its disguise, as the wish to flee love is by a dialectical irony...