Chris: Shitties work in this book was a way of being realist about homosexuality and the different guys as it is worn. There's no innate sense that in the 2070s if for some reason we're still fighting to overthrow capitalism there's going to be something innately anti-capitalist about queerness or gayness, he says. He makes an interesting point that like it might be better to understand queerness as this relationship to a sort of class linked stability which denatures and re-naturalizes these sorts of decompositions of the reproduction of the class. Chris: I don't think he's throwing up his hands at homosexuality per se I just think he's not making
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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