Queer/Waste
Streszczenie
The article explores the cultural logics that connect, in more or less
evident ways, the notion of waste and the figure of the queer. The
framework is, broadly speaking, economic, as waste cannot be separated
from questions of productivity, use, value, and systemic organization.
It is in such economic terms that much of the psychonalaytical
tradition has dealt with socio-psychological phenomena. In order to
deconstruct the axioms of ‘straight’ social economy, the author
borrows from such queer/ psychoanalytic theorists as Lee Edelman and
Leo Bersani as well as from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix
Guattari. The basic point is that a socially ‘unproductive’ queer is
expected to prove their value (if at all) through an enhanced work of
sublimation; otherwise ‘queer’ is bound to become waste. Consequently,
a queer who affirms their ambiguous, ‘dirty’ status (thus pointing at
an alternative social economy) must be perceived as dangerous for the
oedipal social order, or even ‘civilization’ as such. The article
concludes with a reflection on the viability of a queer ethics that
would counter the logic of capitalist accumulation and paternal
heredity with the desiring production of waste.
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