Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 05:21:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Queer Theory, Foucault, etc.
From: Harrison Brace <hbrace-AT-leland.stanford.edu>


Sorry, this may not exactly be the place to post this, but I have not 
seen any "meta-spoon" discussion list yet. How do people go about 
suggesting possible new discussion lists? 

My unsollicited suggestion is for a queer theory list. There is currently 
a "queer studies" list elsewhere (QSTUDY-L-AT-UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU), but it 
suffers (at least I see it that way) from a lack of focus and it's not 
generating much academic/theoretical discussion (in fact, as a "queer 
studies" list it's not even clear that that is its mission). So, as far 
as I can tell, the net does not yet have a real queer theory list, and I 
think Spoon would be the obvious place to host it. Or perhaps it could 
just start out with a "slow reading" seminar list, say, taking up 
something like Leo Bersani's new book, _Homos_, or perhaps a queer-theory 
oriented discussion of Foucault?

Again, sorry if this is not the place for this sugestion....

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Harrison Brace
Doctoral Candidate
Comparative Literature
Stanford University
(415) 497-2112 voice/fax
hbrace-AT-leland.stanford.edu

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The proper name does not designate an individual: it is on the contrary 
when the individual opens up to the multiplicites pervading him or her, 
at the outcome of the most severe operation of depersonalization, that he 
or she acquires his or her true proper name.

Deleuze/Gauttari, "One or Several Wolves."
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