QUEER AUTOFICTION AS BODY PROTOCOL
When authors write about themselves, they assume a dual position as author and subject of their texts, both affirming and reworking themselves in the process. In his contribution to our 2019 issue on Literatur, Peter Rehberg explores what happens when the autofictional subject undergoes a radical biological transformation in the course of writing, using Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts as examples. Published online for the first time, we are looking ahead to the fourth iteration of our discussion series “Ways of Disagreeing,” which will take place on June 3 in the Roter Salon at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz: Monique David-Ménard and McKenzie Wark will discuss to what extent psychoanalysis, from a queer theoretical perspective, can provide the tools to capture a queer subject understood as incoherent, non-essentialist, and transgressive.
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