Queer Objects

<p>Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness this book reflects on how objects can illuminate affect and animate queer modes of being. </p><p></p><p>In the early 1990s the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined queer as “multiply transitive . . . relational and strange” rather than a fixed identity. In spite of this much of the queer theoretical scholarship of the last three decades has used queer as a synonym for anti-normative sexual identities. The contributions to this volume return to the idea of transitivity exploring what happens when queer is thought of as a turning toward or turning away from a diverse range of objects including bodily waste; frozen cats; archival ephemera; the writing of Virginia Woolf; the Pop art of Ray Johnson; the podcast <i>S-Town</i>; and Maggie Nelson’s memoir <i>The Argonauts</i>. </p><p></p><p>Relevant to those studying queer theory this book will also be of wider interest to those researching identity and the way in which it is represented in a variety of artistic disciplines.</p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Angelaki.</i></p>