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GLQ (2019) 25 (2): 273–296.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bobby Benedicto Drawing on the writings of Georges Bataille and Leo Bersani, this essay reexamines the long-held association of homosexuality with a radical erotics of death from the vantage of queer of color critique. While notions of suicidal ecstasy, self-shattering, and masochistic jouissance...
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GLQ (2025) 31 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the pleasure of antisocial and self-shattering relations, thereby threatening social commitments. This hypothesis helps explain why liberals, in defending trans and gender-nonconforming peoples’ restroom access, have characterized and reinforced restrooms as nonsexual spaces, effectively insulating gender non...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 453–455.
Published: 01 June 2015
... attempt to undo in a manner reminiscent of the selfshattering force of rupture associated 454 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES with sexuality in Leo Bersani’s classic essay, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” If, as Ber- sani intimated, the rectum is a site in which a certain...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 517–542.
Published: 01 October 2011
...- mitment to machismo” that “is no longer permissible” (“RG,” 201). And her mor- phology of the sexed body is not unlike Bersani’s with its selfshattering rectum where, as he puts it, “the gay man demolishes his own otherwise uncontrollable identification with a murderous judgment against him” (“RG...
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GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 11–33.
Published: 01 April 1995
... of the blocking of pain; the exclusive focusing on pain can also obscure our understanding of the self-shattering that may be the secret teleology of S/M’s universalizing of pleasure. In this self-shattering, the ego renounces its power over the world. Thus, while images of Fakir Musafar hanging from...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 285–312.
Published: 01 April 2009
... that he calls “self-shattering” (222). Sexuality is therefore “socially dysfunctional,” in Bersani’s words, not because it can sometimes be the genital terrorism of Queer Nation but because it always undoes “the supposed relationality or community of the couple (which depends on selfhood...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 565–594.
Published: 01 October 2012
.... Edwards also denied other aesthetic and philosophical principles that were necessary preconditions for psychoanalytic masochism and help illuminate what more recent accounts of abjection discuss as masochistic selfshattering. Edwards’s constellation of affective states...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 439–460.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of productive and transgressive selfshattering, and where the rectum acts as a grave where ideas of selfhood are productively — and perhaps pleasurably — buried. Of course, the kind of redemptive and promising self-shattering­ that Bersani traces seems exclusively attached to gay...
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GLQ (2007) 13 (1): 125–139.
Published: 01 January 2007
... about the importance of betrayal as an ethical act in Jean Genet’s Funeral Rites. From his critique of readings of art as consolation in The Culture of Redemption to his advocacy of self-shattering in the essay “Is the Rec- tum a Grave?” Bersani was relentless in his critique...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (3): 499–512.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., beauty, and camp. Stockton is highly indebted to Leo Bersani’s claim that the abject is fundamental to sexual pleasure, and, like him, she too addresses necrophilia and AIDS, the latter indexed, incidentally, only in Stein’s book as well. Bersani’s conjunction of sex and self-shattering would...
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GLQ (2002) 8 (4): 553–579.
Published: 01 October 2002
.... Fantasies of power and control give way, in anticipatory excite- ment or in the orgasmic shattering of the body, to degrading self-abolition. Repre- sentations of sex emphasize the sexual act as the embodiment of abdication of mastery, of the desire to abandon the self in favor...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 47–69.
Published: 01 January 2012
... is (symp- tomatically) fetishistic. Leo Bersani has argued that what may constitute the distinctiveness of male homoerotic subjectivity is the desire to be consumed in a selfshattering jou- issance; “selfshattering,” he writes, “is intrinsic to the homo-­ness...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 553–591.
Published: 01 October 2001
...- plays here the aspect of sexuality that Bersani describes as “socially dysfunctional in that it brings people together only to plunge them into a self-shattering and solipsistic jouissance that drives them apart.”38 Here I want to suggest that hetero...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 389–403.
Published: 01 June 2011
... bodily and psychic integrity” (143). Such a formulation might claim affinity with Leo Bersani’s Freudian account of self- ­­shattering, yet whereas Bersani avoids reducing the experience of self-shattering­­ to the experience of orgasm, Totton leaves unchallenged Reich’s...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in shattering dominant formations of masculinized self-­mastery is its most politically promising feature, uncompromised as it is by defensive maneuvers that attempt to smooth over the disruptive aspects of sex. Bersani’s essay reverberated widely in queer theory...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 309–311.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the “self-shattering” occasioned by Jerome’s narratives of the desert hermits Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion (chapter 1), the masochistically eroticized deaths of women in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine (chapter 2), the queer “womanliness” and sadistic “hypernatural...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 312–314.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the “self-shattering” occasioned by Jerome’s narratives of the desert hermits Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion (chapter 1), the masochistically eroticized deaths of women in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine (chapter 2), the queer “womanliness” and sadistic “hypernatural...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 315–317.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the “self-shattering” occasioned by Jerome’s narratives of the desert hermits Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion (chapter 1), the masochistically eroticized deaths of women in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine (chapter 2), the queer “womanliness” and sadistic “hypernatural...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 318–321.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of hagiography in relation to a history of sexuality. Ultimately, whether describing the “self-shattering” occasioned by Jerome’s narratives of the desert hermits Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion (chapter 1), the masochistically eroticized deaths of women in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 321–323.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of hagiography in relation to a history of sexuality. Ultimately, whether describing the “self-shattering” occasioned by Jerome’s narratives of the desert hermits Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion (chapter 1), the masochistically eroticized deaths of women in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa...