Published by De Gruyter

Queer Futures

Edited by: Kathrin Dreckmann, Bettina Papenburg and Jami Weinstein

ISSN: 2940-2344

e-ISSN 2940-2352

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Is ‘queer’ still a useful concept? How can queer thought and artistic expression contribute to reimagining possible futures?

Queer Futures seeks to attract critical interventions in the debate on queer as a concept, its potential and futurity. Given the problematic legacy of queer, a term mainly associated with white gay male history and thus only partly operative for lesbians, people of color, or trans*, intersex, and non-binary people, this series not only deliberates the possible futures of queer as a concept, but also strives to imagine queer futures.

Aesthetic considerations play an important role in thinking about queer futures. In the context of the series, we understand the aesthetic as the capacity of media environments to profoundly change and reorientate our perception. To this end, Queer Futures promotes theoretically advanced research on a range of creative expressions by feminist, queer, and trans* media artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, performers, curators, and writers that materialize futures and forms of community. Contributions address the aesthetics of sexual and gender identities and engage critically and creatively with persisting hegemonic ways that cultural artifacts are produced and exhibited. Queer Futures aims to provide a platform for exploring how various theoretical, artistic, and activist cultures translate, appropriate, critique, and redefine queer as a concept and the visions of the future it generates.

Advisory Board:

Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Ruhr University Bochum
Kodwo Eshun, Goldsmiths, University of London
Eva Hayward, Utrecht University
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Dirk Schulz, University of Cologne
Jenny Sundén, Södertörn University
Kathrin Thiele, Utrecht University

Author / Editor information

K. Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine Univ. Dusseldorf, Germany; B. Papenburg, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany; J. Weinstein, Linköping Univ., Sweden.

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Queer Pop

Aesthetic Interventions in Contemporary Culture

Bettina Papenburg, Kathrin Dreckmann

Volume 1 in this series

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Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and performers who question the contours of traditional sexual and gender identities, including but not limited to members of LGBTQIA* communities. When encountered on the stage or screen, for instance, in the guise of drag performances, forms of sexual ambiguity often spark fascination. Yet in everyday life in various socio-cultural contexts, sexual and bodily difference in all its forms is still met with hostility, rendering vulnerable those human beings that deviate from the white, male, straight, able-bodied norm. Queer artists today respond to social stigma in multiple creative ways, for example, by transforming negative affect, fostering a politics of care, and rewriting history.

This volume considers how feminist, queer, and trans* musicians, filmmakers, curators, and performance artists contribute to popular culture. It explores the many ways of relating to difference, however this is conceived, that their contributions enable. What affects do their works engender? How do they rouse their audience, and to what ends? How do they fabricate and circulate provocative messages about new forms of gender, race, class, and desire? What other visions do they inspire?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111013435
ISBN:: 9783111013435
ISBN:: 9783110795868
ISBN:: 9783111014159
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Gender
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter