Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:47:50 +0100 (BST)
From: Jamie Heckert <heckert-AT-moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: [postanarchism] Nomadic Sexualities


Dear all,

I am a sociology PhD student at the University of Edinburgh working on
applying poststructuralist anarchist theory to the concept of sexual
orientation and the politics of gender and sexuality more generally.

I only recently discovered "The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist
Anarchism". It has helped me fit a lot of things together a more
coherent way. Not the least that I can better bring my research and
politics together! So I'm trying to develop a theoretical framework to
explore my empirical research on sexual desires and identities (see
http://www.sexualorientation.info/ for details).

At the moment, I am particularly interested in the Deleuzian concept of
state-forms and how that might apply to the concept of sexual orientation.
Deleuze and Guattari are not the easiest writers to understand and I was
wondering if anyone could recommend any good sources on the concept of
state-forms.  I have already ordered the Patton paper that May recommends.
I was wondering if anyone can recommend any others, and, especially, if
any of you know whether the concept has ever been applied to sexual
desire before.

Cheers,
Jamie