The Contradiction of Queerness in Capitalism

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Queerness is not a natural category it's this contradiction that in here is socially in the historical process as different regimes of accumulation and most production sort of capital strategies succeed each other but never fully liquidate past ones. The real content of this history that he's tracing of queerness or whatever is solidarity basically of sort of finding moments that you can steal for yourself and people with whom you share a pleasure within this antagonistic social order.

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