Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3520286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | João Florêncio (0000-0002-1817-5648, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 861-880 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261231174970 |
| OpenAlex | W4385463648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 36 |
In Cruising Utopia, José Muñoz writes that 'drugs are a surplus that pushes one off course, no longer able to contribute labor power at the proper tempo'. Their pharmacology of unproductive time also interacts in a synergistic/synaesthetic manner with the hypnotic upbeat tempos of electronic dance genres like disco, house or techno. In the club, drugs enhance sensations and draw bodies close together, all while sound penetrates the ear, turning it into an erotic orifice. Central to countercultural histories of sexual liberation, the club is a temple of queer world-making, a laboratory carrying out experiments with a queerness-yet-to-come. In this speculative autotheoretical essay, I explore the ethics and political value - as well as political ambivalence - of drug-fuelled techniques of self-invention encountered in the queer club. At once pharmacological, sexual and biopolitical, these modes of becoming-queer of bodies flooded by sound, drugs and sexual pleasure allude to the possibility of kinds of subjectivity and social relations that resonate with a narcofeminist ethics and veer away from neoliberal regimes of identity and belonging
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Club · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Terms and Conditions
Navigating the paradoxical roles of social support in queer substance use
“Hooking Up as Performance”
Solidarities in the quest for queer utopias
The Transformative Potential of Awareness Labour
A century of queerness after dark
Undoing Minority Stress
Regimes of Drug Desires
Queer healing in altered states
Compassionately fat
The ritual process
Impossible dance
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Club cultures
Infrastructures of intimacy
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
The Government of Desire
Hatred of Sex
The Autonomous Animal
Archive Fever
Hanging, blowing, slamming and playing
Chemsex cultures
Drugs as technologies of the self
Antiretroviral Time
Toward a theory of subcultural mosaic
Mapping the Margins
Object Lessons
Sexual Scripts
Testo junkie
The Politics of Imagination
The Narrative Self in Autobiographical Accounts of Illness
Sociography
Situated Knowledges
From Ritual to Theatre
The Performative 'I
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |