Review of: Antke Engel: Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie. Queere kulturelle Politiken im Neoliberalismus. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2009.

Authors

  • Kateřina Kolářová Charles University in Prague
  • Anja Schwarz Universität Konstanz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/788

Keywords:

Gender, Geschlecht, Bildende Kunst, Diversity, Intersektionalität, Queer, Repräsentation

Abstract

Gender and sexual difference/s are often no longer being understood as a problem, but instead they are celebrated as cultural capital. The form of this appraisal of diversity in late modernity is, according to Antke Engel, tightly interwoven with the neoliberal models of subjectivity. She proposes “projective integration” – a term that describes affective allocation of images – as a tool for analysis and uses differentiated readings of images to call for the intertwining of queer and neoliberal topics and discourses. The author thus makes visible contradictions that are inherent to neoliberal market logic as well as to the queer project. She shows how under these conditions we can anticipate the indecisiveness of queer politics. With this volume Engel offers an important contribution to the critical reflection on neoliberalism and queer politics.

Author Biographies

Kateřina Kolářová, Charles University in Prague

Department of Gender Studies, School of Humanities

Anja Schwarz, Universität Konstanz

Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft/Anglistik
Finnish Sauna Society von/by Ville Miettinen

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Published

2009-10-23

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2009): Raum

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2009 Kateřina Kolářová, Anja Schwarz

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