The policing of homosexuality intensifies at these particular political economic moments of crisis. In those contexts, sodomy accusations or homophobia is weaponizable in certain ways to help people gain access to increasing spoils. Chris uses some broad histories and sociologies of capitalism to build his historical story. He adopts a term that he adopts from Giovanni Arigi, who is a Marxist.
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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Further reading:
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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