Deleuze and Queer Theory: (Deleuze Connections)

This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, itsuggests an alternative to Butler's matter/representation binary. It thus dares to askhow to think sexuality and sex outside the discursive and linguistic context that hascome to dominate contemporary research in social sciences and humanities.Deleuze and Queer Theory is a provocative and often militant collection that explores a diverse range of themes including: the revisiting of the term 'queer'; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze/Guattari philosophy. It will be essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy, but also in the fields of sexuality, gender and feminist theory.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory, Claire Colebrook; 2. Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queening of Deleuze & Guattari, Verena Andermatt Conley; 3. The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler, Anna Hickey-Moody and Mary Louise Rasmussen; 4. Every 'One' - a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle, Dorothea Olkowski; 5. The adventures of a sex, Luciana Parisi; 6. Queer Hybridity, Mikko Tuhkanen; 7. Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities, Margrit Shildrick; 8. Unnatural Alliances, Patricia MacCormack; 9. Schreber and the Penetrated Male, Jonathan Kemp; 10. Butterfly kiss: the contagious kiss of becoming-lesbian, Chrysanthi Nigianni; Notes on Contributors; Index.

About the Author :
Chrysanthi Nigianni is a PhD candidate at the University of East London. She has taught at the University of East London and at Anglia Ruskin University. She is co-editor of the New Formations Issue on 'Deleuze and Politics' (forthcoming). Merl Storr is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. She is the author of Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties (Berg Press, 2003).

Review :
This is a brilliant and well-timed collection of state-of-the-arts essays. It conclusively proves that queerness has to do not only with identity politics and performative stances, but also with material and collective experiments with radical otherness and un-programmed intensity. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University and Honorary Professor at Birkbeck College London