The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kevin Floyd
By Kevin Floyd
The Reification of wish takes severe views not often analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and people who were the root for queer theory—and productively scrutinizes those rules either with and opposed to one another to place forth a brand new theoretical connection among Marxism and queer stories. Kevin Floyd brings queer critique to endure at the Marxian different types of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the paintings of Georg Luk?cs, Herbert Marcuse, and Fredric Jameson. interpreting the paintings of those theorists including influential queer paintings by way of such figures as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and along reconsiderations of such texts because the solar additionally Rises and dead night Cowboy, Floyd reformulates those crucial different types which were inseparable from a key strand of Marxist idea and feature marked either its explanatory energy and its obstacles. Floyd theorizes a dissociation of sexuality from gender before everything of the 20 th century by way of reification to assert that this dissociation is one point of a bigger dynamic of social reification enforced through capitalism. constructing a queer exam of reification and totality, Kevin Floyd finally argues that the insights of queer thought require a primary rethinking of either.
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A mode of regulation is a complex ensemble combining official political structures, practices, and policies with a network of broadly defined social norms and habits, an ensemble that ensures consent, at the level of everyday practical life, to the reproduction of the conditions of accumulation. 50 But my study will place special emphasis on introduction 35 the ways in which macrosocial forms of regulation have to be supplemented with microsocial forms of normativity and discipline not unlike those highlighted by Foucault especially, and by queer critical practice generally.
While Foucault represents history in terms that posit a narrative of decline even more unwaveringly, perhaps, than the narrative of reification we encounter in Lukács, his work also facilitates an understanding of the way in which regimes of sexual knowledge have complex social effects. Reification in this respect seems to have a radically unfreezing social impact: far beyond the two different kinds of subjectivity Lukács allows, reification is a condition of possibility for a new form of critical, antiheteronormative knowledge, which may not make Lukács’s “ontological totality” less legible so much as provide a new critical perspective on it.
50 But my study will place special emphasis on introduction 35 the ways in which macrosocial forms of regulation have to be supplemented with microsocial forms of normativity and discipline not unlike those highlighted by Foucault especially, and by queer critical practice generally. 51 But I argue that it is precisely the more micro-level components of the mode of regulation, especially as this mode operates at the level of the body, which provide a way of understanding the relation between the dynamics of capital accumulation as they develop in the United States and the way in which a reification of sexual desire attributes to bodies certain new, normalized forms of sexual, and potentially critical, subjectivity.