Nir Kedem
Nir Kedem

To Have Done with Sexuality: Schizoanalysis and the Problem of Queer-Feminist Alliances

Abstract: What would constitute a queer-feminist alliance from a schizoanalytic viewpoint? This essay argues that schizoanalysis may function as a new means to ally feminist and queer analytic machines by effecting a radical desexualization of queer theory—a utopian gesture designed to liberate queer theory from its transcendental illusion, namely, the concept of sexuality itself. The essay therefore offers an account of the role sex and sexuality play in Anti-Oedipus as functional parts in the schizoanalytic conceptual system. It is shown that Anti-Oedipus’ use of sex and sexuality in relation to gender, sexual difference, and the “n sexes” originates in Deleuze’s Proust and Signs, and that by rearranging the relations between these categories, schizoanalysis implies the very form of queer-feminist alliances. The essay concludes with an analysis of criticisms of the #Me Too Movement for under-representations of sexual and other minorities, whereby the calculative logic of these criticisms becomes an index of a deeper problematic that reveals #Me Too’s true revolutionary power: a “NO” directed at one of capitalism’s most sinister expressions of cynicism, trafficking. This analysis demonstrates and concretizes the essay’s argument for the desexualization queer theory, or the overcoming of sexuality, as a gateway to broad coalitional alliances with feminism.

 

Keywords: Sexuality, queer theory, queer-feminist alliance, Anti-Oedipus, part/whole relationship, transversal.

 

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