Between Desire and Pleasure

A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Frida Beckman, Stockholm University) Beckman, Frida (Professor of Comparative Literature

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Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work. She thereby makes a definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexuality.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-13
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt475 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePlateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Antal sidor200
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748645923

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Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

Preface; Introduction; 1. A Nonlinear History of Sexuality: Deleuze with Foucault; 2. Psychoanalysis Unhinged: Deleuze with Lacan, Klein, and Reich; 3. Folding, Individuation, and the Pleasurable Body; 4. Orgasmic Feminism; 5. Disabling Sex: Inventing a People who are Missing; 6. Becoming-Animal and the Posthuman Orgasm; 7. Capitalism and Sexuality; Epilogue: Swedish Sin, or the Importance of Remaining Curious; Bibliography.

Frida Beckman has written an undoubtedly provocative account of the uneasy relations, even points of tension and contradiction, between feminist and queer conceptions of sexual pleasure and the deterritorializing philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari. This book successfully opens sexuality out to new conceptions and new forces that link it directly to the most pressing political questions of today.