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Queer Marxisms (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: For many, the publication of Judith Butler’s 'Gender Trouble' and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s 'Epistemology of the Closet' in the year 1990 is seen as having marked the birth of Queer Theory, emerging out of various currents of feminist thought as well as the field of Gay and Lesbian Studies. Queer Theory is often seen as having formed part of a broader intellectual and institutional turn across much of the humanities and many social sciences: away from materialist and Marxian approaches and towards psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and deconstruction, adopting what Rosemary Hennessy described as ‘a more textual approach to identity as signification’. This seminar explores materialist feminist approaches to sexuality and gender as well as Marxist contributions to Gay and Lesbian Studies prior to Queer Theory, along with Hennessy’s influential critique of early queer thought. In the years since this critique was first advanced, however, a sizeable and heterogeneous body of Marxist and materialist work has been published within Queer Studies. The primary focus of this seminar will be an engagement with some of these works, published since the turn of the century. This includes: • Kevin Floyd’s efforts to synthesize queer theoretical approaches and Georg Lukács’ work on reification and totality • Engagements with ‘social reproduction’ and with the legacies of the ‘wages for housework’ campaign in the emerging field of Transgender Marxism • The uses made by Christopher Chitty of ‘world-system theory’ to show how the periodic politicization of homosexuality has often coincided with the crises of hegemonic powers – eras marked by growing social divisions and by the breakdown of both capital accumulation and ‘the wider geopolitical balance of power’ • John D’Emilio’s history of the emergence of modern gay subjectivity amidst processes of urbanization and industrialisation • Roderick A. Ferguson’s engagement with Herbert Marcuse and his development of a ‘multi-dimensional’ account of early queer and trans liberation movements in the context of the New Left, as well as the displacement of queer social life in the neoliberal city • Petrus Liu’s discussion of the development of a distinct Queer Marxist theory and literature between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan

Zwischen Fakt und Fiktion: Literatur, Film, Rhetorik (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sven Kramer

Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 18.10.2021 - 04.02.2022 | C 14.203 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Seit die Algorithmisierung der Kommunikation in den digitalen medialen Umgebungen neue Priorisierungen in Bezug auf die Verbreitung von Inhalten hervorgebracht hat, werden Phänomene wie Verschwörungstheorien stärker beachtet. Hier stehen immer wieder Grenzziehungen wie die zwischen Fakt und Fiktion sowie zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge zur Debatte. Das Seminar wird sich mit Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen in drei Bereichen – der Literatur, dem Dokumentarfilm und der politischen Rhetorik – beschäftigen. Anhand der Analyse einzelner Werke sollen die konkreten Überlagerungen zwischen Faktualität und Fiktionalität bestimmt werden, während die Rekonstruktion theoretischer Positionen verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der begrifflichen Rahmung nachgeht. Dabei interessieren Fragen wie: Wo gelten klare Grenzziehungen – und wo muss komplexer gedacht werden?