In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being "orientated" means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. "Orientations" affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear - and those that do not - as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl's Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts - by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon - with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. "Queer Phenomenology" points queer theory in bold new directions.
0 有用 🍅 2021-12-01 09:45:05
Chap3, The Orient and Other Others
9 有用 kookyobject 2023-11-22 09:19:51 美国
orientation同时作为性取向和胡塞尔现象学中的核心概念对世界的朝向,queer同时作为酷儿和梅罗胖迪所说的视角的倾斜。heteronormativity作为多数人所走出的the straight line,在不断重复中成为真实。queerness作为一个site of potentiality,“少有人走的路”,恣意生长。
3 有用 面包漏水 2021-04-21 21:28:50
主要是在现象学单纯的意向性中导入生产与再生产的社会学框架。orientation并非仅仅是一种取向与定向,在定向的同时也在塑造着主体自身并改变其视域中物的浮现/退隐,这种改变与塑造反过来又决定了主体所能或所欲取向之物。把弗洛伊德对朵拉的阐释扭转为并非是朵拉的倒错而是弗洛伊德对异性恋规定的再生产真是精彩!
0 有用 fff勒内 2023-04-19 11:14:42 美国
只读了orientation,回来补。
0 有用 gardenhead 2015-05-01 23:30:17
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