Deleuze and Queer Theory »

Chrysanthi Nigianni is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. Merl Storr is senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London.

A major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality, Deleuze and Queer Theory marks a shift away from discourse on identity and signification and a move toward a radical new conception of bodily materialism. For too long queer theory has been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and a focus on performativity. In these essays, a critical engagement with the work of Deleuze and Guattari shape a new queer theory, one that revisits the very term of "queer," rethinks the sex-gender distinction as implied in queer theory, explores queer temporalities, and considers the non/rereading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze Guattari philosophy.

Introduction 1

1 On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory Claire Colebrook 11

2 Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queering of Deleuze and Guattari Verena Andermatt Conley 24

3 The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler Anna Hickey-Moody Mary Lou Rasmussen 37

4 Every 'One' - a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle Dorothea Olkowski 54

5 The Adventures of a Sex Luciana Parisi 72

6 Queer Hybridity Mikko Tuhkanen 92

7 Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities Margrit Shildrick 115

8 Unnatural Alliances Patricia MacCormack 134

9 Schreber and the Penetrated Male Jonathan Kemp 150

10 Butterfly Kiss: The Contagious Kiss of Becoming-Lesbian Chrysanthi Nigianni 168

Notes on Contributors 183

Index 187