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GLQ (2017) 23 (4): 447–472.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Lucas Crawford This article argues that queer theory must depart from three temporalities often attributed to fat bodies even in queer circles and theory—most notably by Lauren Berlant in the much-lauded Cruel Optimism . It asserts that figural exploitations of fatness have been too quickly...
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GLQ (2025) 31 (1): 111–135.
Published: 01 January 2025
... to the present—specifically, with the affects of precarity, as theorized by Lauren Berlant ( 2011 , 2015 ). I suggest that the novel moves between the affective modalities of Gen X (James) and Gen Y/Millennial (Maria), both states that I understand as being generated by changing conditions of precarity. Thusly...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (2): 181–203.
Published: 01 April 2024
... focused on the “fundamental importance of the other” in shaping our shifting sense of self, and on the necessity of the other's essential difference for such recognition to take place. In addition, the late Lauren Berlant's work (1997, 2011) is also helpful here. In demonstrating the ways in which...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 359–379.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Ahmed Sara . 2010 . The Promise of Happiness . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Barth John . 1968 . Lost in the Funhouse . New York : Doubleday . Berlant Lauren . 2008 . The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture . Durham, NC...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 343–345.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Margot Weiss Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Beam Myrl Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . 236 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES a way to approach various domains of everyday life as potential “sites of intensified encounter with what disorganizes accustomed ways of being,” as Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman have recently characterized sex.10 In this respect...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 149–158.
Published: 01 January 2012
... relationship between bodily capacity and bodily debility. These discourses reproduce neoliberalism’s heightened demands for bodily capacity, even as this same neoliberalism marks out populations for what Lauren Berlant has described as “slow death” — the debilitating ongoing- ness of structural...
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GLQ (2004) 10 (4): 543–564.
Published: 01 October 2004
... to this dominant regulatory sys- tem as the “heterosexual matrix,” that is, “that grid of cultural intelligibility through which bodies, genders, and desires are naturalized.”9 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner present the model of an apparatus that regulates the social nor- malization...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 January 2019
... . 2011 . “ Nature’s Queer Performativity .” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 19 , no. 2 : 121 – 58 . Berlant Lauren Edelman Lee . 2013 . Sex, or the Unbearable . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Berlant Lauren Warner Michael . 1995 . “ What Does...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Directory , June . www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this . Avicolli-Mecca Tommi . 2015 . “ The End of the Dream .” www.avicollimecca.com/the-end-of-the-dream/ . Berlant Lauren . 2012 . “ Affect in the End Times: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant .” Qui Parle 20 , no. 2...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (2): 285–312.
Published: 01 April 2001
... in His Wings!” Unexpectedly, in the work of James Baldwin, religious language is the rhetoric through which queer characters create what Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner would call “counterintimacies.”1 In their suggestive essay, “Sex in Public,” Berlant...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., Lauren Berlant reinscribes what she terms the “sexual impasse” as a “formal suspension” of normative structures of desire and sociality.1 For Ber- lant in this essay, the aesthetic, particularly the “compulsory formalism” of genre, possesses the power to shape people’s collective attachments...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 79–110.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Berlant, Judith Butler, Ann Cvetkovich, Douglas Crimp, Lee Edelman, Judith Halberstam, and Heather Love each consider positive affects with suspicion. Their work strives to depathologize the negative affects of unhappiness, melancholia, trauma, self-­shattering, or shame and to define these feelings...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 220–223.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Laurie Fuller; Erica R. Meiners Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Berlant Lauren . 2004 . “ Critical Inquiry, Affirmative Culture ”. Critical Inquiry 30 , no. 2 . web.archive.org/web/20070610213541/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v30/30n2...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2012
...- cious versions. But even if we rehabilitate totality as a queering — or scavenging —  of disciplines, we still need to address the sense that queer studies’ attention to affect appears at odds with the potentials of a totalizing approach. Recent work by Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 41–68.
Published: 01 April 2010
...- rogates some of the problematic logics within much decolonization discourse by revealing how this discourse often reinstantiates rather than challenges colonial formations and ideologies. Lauren Berlant demonstrates how decolonization projects can become unwittingly implicated...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 507–510.
Published: 01 October 2023
... this plays out differently in the three societies) a general political conservatism. Third, across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China, Kong argues, men experience monogamy as an example of “cruel optimism,” defined as something you desire but that is actually an obstacle to your flourishing (Berlant 2011...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 453–475.
Published: 01 October 2023
... differently, evoking Lauren Berlant's ( 2016 : 393) concept of “queer infrastructures,” or those interlocking structures and strategies that organize transformational processes. The infinite looping of silkworm trans-migration channels the expressive power and formal possibilities of multiple queer...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 365–385.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., reforming the political through a model of action distinct from the agency of the human sovereign. Drawing on Lauren Berlant’s conception of a “lateral” biopolitics in which subjects manage “the difficulty of reproducing con- temporary life” in “a mode of coasting,” I question both the xenophobic...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 285–312.
Published: 01 April 2009
... there have emerged two distinct views on the relation between bodies and pleasures. According to one view, pleasure is obtained exclu- sively or most effectively through use of the genitalia. Hence for Queer Nation, in the words of Lauren Berlant, genitalia were “not just organs...