Alongside desire
Object Lessons and Working-Class Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Brim (0000-0002-6497-8484, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-293 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001221143031 |
| OpenAlex | W4313522920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article reconsiders Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) as a book that helps to discern a necessary relation between Queer Studies and Working-Class Studies, two fields that do not often share a footprint in the US academy. That relation emerges for the author in the unexpected resonance between Object Lessons and Vivian Gornick's recently republished The Romance of American Communism (2020), a classic text about the politics of passionate longing for a better world. Likewise, Wiegman understands political desire as the animating force behind the field of Queer Studies and other identity knowledges. Brim argues that, alongside this affective threshold of belonging that constitutes the field of US Queer Studies, there exists a material threshold of belonging that renders politically indispensable academic fields as, nonetheless, sites of class-based exclusion. In the increasingly class-stratified and race-sorted academy, disciplines such as Working-Class Studies that are attentive to the material exclusions of knowledge production can help scholars to proactively set material conditions alongside political desire in a future-oriented, sustainable vision of Queer Studies
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Romance · Sociology · Working class · Computer Science · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |