Re: AUT: Re: buggering

["David McInerney" <borderlands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris
I was in constant contact with Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham at that
time.  As a postgrad I presented a paper called "Bugger the Economy! Or,
Making Marxism Queer" at the borderlands conference at ANU in 1997, which
used "queering" and "buggering" in a *metaphorical* sense to argue that an
Queer Theory makes an ascesis of the Marxist self possible. When it was
eventually published - in the proceedings of the Australasian Political
Studies Association conference proceedings of that year - the editors
insisted that I change the name of the paper to remove the offensive verb
"bugger".  That paper drew on Gibson-Graham but more so on David Halperin's
reading of Foucault (and fist-fucking!) and Warren Montag's reading of
Spinoza's writings on Scripture (an interesting combination!).  I basically
wrote it as a one-off to round out a panel on Marxism and Queer Theory (the
other speaker was Katherine Gibson's student Jenny Cameron) - I was a
conference convenor - and I haven't returned to that topic since.  David
Halperin didn't like the paper at all, he thought that it had very little to
do with Queer politics or his book.  Montag liked it.  Katherine Gibson gave
a plenary paper under the name J.K. Gibson-Graham.  I also reviewed their
book in _Political Theory Newsletter_.  As I remember it I took the concept
of 'buggering' from them, not Deleuze, but no doubt I was also influenced by
Halperin, whose book on Foucault I was reading at the time.
DM


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From: "chris wright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "aut-op-sy" <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: buggering


> Yeah, i read that some years ago.  As I remember it, two
> Althusser-influenced feminist/Marxists who decided to use their names to
> create a single authorial identity and they wrote a lot in the book on
> Australian mining towns.  I didn't pay attention then to the idea of
> buggering, mayber because I had not come across Deleuze yet.
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> Chris
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> On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 18:52, David McInerney wrote:
> > This idea of 'buggering' is also used in J.K. Gibson-Graham, _The End of
> > Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy_
> > (1996).
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