Disidentifications

There is to identity than identifying with one s culture or standing solidly against it Jos Esteban Mu oz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes Mu oz calls this process disidentification, and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture such as pornography , museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Mu oz persistently points to the intersecting and short circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.Mu oz calls attention to the world making properties found in performances by queers of color in Carmelita Tropicana s Camp Choteo style politics, Marga Gomez s performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis s Terrorist Drag, Isaac Julien s critical melancholia, Jean Michel Basquiat s disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez Torres s performances of disidentity, and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serial The Real World. Free Download Disidentifications [ by ] José Esteban Muñoz [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr A few weeks into their relationship, Sean proposed marriage to Pedro and Pedro accepted In response, the show s other star presence, Puck, decided to one up the queer couple by proposing marriage to his new girlfriend Toni Puck stands as proof that not all counterpublics challenge the way in which the social is organized by the dominant culture Puck s counterpublic is a juvenile version of rugged individualism it represents a sort of soft anarchism that relativizes all political struggles A few weeks into their relationship, Sean proposed ma...I m mad I didn t read this earlierDisidentification is a world making process for minoritarian subjects, Mu oz states in the closing chapter of his book p 197 This world making process utilizes performance as a method in which individuals can create an environment where identities that do not conform can exercise freedom of being, which is to say that this process performs subtle subversions as a creative way to engage with a state of being The mere concept of disindetification alludes to the construction site that is i Disidentification is a world making process for minoritarian subjects, Mu oz states in the closing chapter of his book p 197 This world making process...This one grew on me Munyoz isn t the most lucid writer ever, and I ve noticed that a lot of people spend a lot of time searching the theoretical introduction to this book looking for a clear definition of disidentification that is never forthcoming Over time I ve come to see that as a strength Though Munyoz does have a clear idea in mind for the work he wants disidentification to do, he develops it through investigating the way disidentification works in the cultural productions of a handful This one grew on me Munyoz isn t the most lucid writer ever, and I ve noticed that a lot of people spend a lot of time searching the theoretical introduction to this book looking for a clear definition of disidentification that is never forthcoming Over time I ve come to see that as a strength Though Munyoz does have a clear idea in mind for the work he wants disidentificatio...An incredibly important book for any scholar of queer studies or those interested in queer of color critique Where the book is weakest, however, is its repetitive cycles Further, the book gives nearly a doze...This work inspires and re inspires every time I pick it up Mu oz formulates a concept of disidentification as a political survival strategy for queers of color, and he supports his theory by examining the performances of queers of color as theory makers in their own right Mu oz effectively situa...oh my god this is one of my favorite books seriously.munoz discusses the common phenomenon of disidentification as a strategic performance for queers of color in order to exist within without a dominant discourse white, heterosexual, etcHe can be slow in getting to the point in some of these essays, but when he does it is usually profound The chapter on Pedro Zamora from the Real World is particularly masterful Munoz carries the project of critical theory into the 21st century in dazzling form.I won t recommend this for everyone because it s pretty dense I m not even convinced that I entirely got it However, it showed me a lot about racism, white supremacy and gender identities in the pop art world, and about how creating a counter to counter cultures helps fight those issues.If you would like to knowabout queer performance artists of color, this is a great introduction and reference.

• English
• 18 January 2018
José Esteban Muñoz
• Paperback
• 227 pages
• 0816630151
• José Esteban Muñoz
• Disidentifications