“A_society” as a model figure of ambiguity

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  • Antke Antek Engel Institute for Queer Theory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i20.56678

Abstract

In the essay I will reconstruct the different epistemological steps from undisambiguation through queer politics of paradox to what I call today “queerness as lived ambiguity”. I will explicate how the notion of ambiguity fulfills a double function in queer theory, namely underlining ambiguity’s livability – multidimensional identities are neither stable nor coherent – and explaining its political potential – overcoming clearcut borders and simplified antagonisms. I will focus on a_sociality as figure of ambiguity, arguing that queerness as lived ambiguity goes along with an understanding of relationality and kinship defined by a continuum or simultaneity of sociality, anti-sociality, and asociality, named “a_sociality”. My thesis is that in avowing the ambiguity of a sociality it becomes possible to move towards forms of cohabitation under conditions of social and global heterogeneity.

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Author Biography

Antke Antek Engel, Institute for Queer Theory

Diretore do Institute for Queer Theory em Berlim e atualmente professore convidade de Estudos Queer e de Gênero na FernUniversität Hagen. Obteve seu PhD em Filosofia na Universidade de Potsdam e trabalha como acadêmique independente nas áreas das teorias queer, feminista e pós-estruturalista, além de filosofia política e estudos culturais-visuais. Foi professore visitante nas Universidades de Hamburgo (2003/2005) e Viena (2011), na Alice Salomon University Berlin (2016) e na Technical University Darmstadt (2018/2019), bem como bolsista de pesquisa no Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI-Berlin (2007-2009), no Gender Institute, London School of Economics (2018), além de ser uma das pessoas contempladas com o Asa Briggs Fellowship, na University of Sussex, em Brighton (2019). Tradução produzida por Cristina Veiga Judar, bacharel em comunicação social pela Universidade São Marcos, especialista em jornalismo cultural pela Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) e mestrande do programa de pós-graduação em Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (FFLCH/USP), e-mail: cris_judar@hotmail.com; e Lucas Breda Magalhães, licenciado em Letras Português e Inglês pela Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná e mestrando do programa de pós-graduação em Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (FFLCH/USP), e-mail: lucasbredamagalhaes@gmail.com.

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Published

2024-06-06

How to Cite

Engel, A. A. (2024). “A_society” as a model figure of ambiguity. Revista Periódicus, 2(20), 248–262. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i20.56678

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Vol. 2 No. 20 (2024): Non binarity: an emerging idendity in contemporary Brazil

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Traduções

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