Chidi: Nothing appears to have been historically normal about middle-class nuclear family norms. What does it mean to understand neoliberalism as disorganizing the fordest family and thus signaling the if not the end then a sort of crisis for a certain idea of normal? Chitty: There isn't a hegemonic sexuality against which to generate any kind of political heat at the same time i think you know he wrote these chapters before 2015, now in retrospect the 2010s were somewhat anomalous in terms of what types of mobilization was possible around politics of sexuality.
Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty's book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.
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libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power
thenewinquiry.com/blog/in-love-and-memory
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