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Author: Caterina Nirta (University of Westminster, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.390kg
ISBN: 9780367348199
ISBN 10: 0367348195
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 17 June 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Caterina Nirta addresses one of the central political questions of the present - transsexual bodies and the various forces and intensities which compose them, their capacities to invent new modes of subjectivity and new kinds of sexual and gender practices. In asking how it is possible to understand corporeal becomings beyond identity politics and beyond gender binaries, this book proposes a provocative transgender utopianism of the present. Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University, USA This book provides what the author describes as 'an ethical utopianism, ' which it thinks through in relation to the actuality and actualisation of gendered and somatic life by transgender people. Drawing on Deleuze, it offers a critique of gendered being/becoming which foregrounds immanence, or the materiality of the present, over transcendence, or a future that never arrives. Professor Alex Sharpe, School of Law, Keele University, UK Caterina Nirta potently re-establishes the need for utopia, based on well-analysed, crystal clear theory, and proposing a perfectly actualisable possibility of a new utopia where both singularity and multiplicity are equally honoured. The whole book is an effortless and at points poetic passage through disciplines, methodologies, theories, spaces, bodies, genders, and genres. It dwells a genuinely hybrid space, simultaneously rigorous, exciting, voyeuristic and caring. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory, author of Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere Caterina Nirta provides a provocative new perspective on lived experiences of time and the ethics of being. She radically reconceptualises notions of utopia, arguing for a recognition of transgender actualisation in the here and now through a timely analysis of how individuals might claim space within and against essentialist social and legal structures. Drawing extensively on Deleuzian philosophy and empirical insights from trans video diaries, Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias offers an important contribution to contemporary debates around queer temporality, gender binarism, legislative recognition, public toilets and Othered bodies. Ruth Pearce, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Caterina Nirta addresses one of the central political questions of the present - transsexual bodies and the various forces and intensities which compose them, their capacities to invent new modes of subjectivity and new kinds of sexual and gender practices. In asking how it is possible to understand corporeal becomings beyond identity politics and beyond gender binaries, this book proposes a provocative transgender utopianism of the present. Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University, USA This book provides what the author describes as 'an ethical utopianism,' which it thinks through in relation to the actuality and actualisation of gendered and somatic life by transgender people. Drawing on Deleuze, it offers a critique of gendered being/becoming which foregrounds immanence, or the materiality of the present, over transcendence, or a future that never arrives. Professor Alex Sharpe, School of Law, Keele University, UK Caterina Nirta potently re-establishes the need for utopia, based on well-analysed, crystal clear theory, and proposing a perfectly actualisable possibility of a new utopia where both singularity and multiplicity are equally honoured. The whole book is an effortless and at points poetic passage through disciplines, methodologies, theories, spaces, bodies, genders, and genres. It dwells a genuinely hybrid space, simultaneously rigorous, exciting, voyeuristic and caring. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory, author of Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere Caterina Nirta provides a provocative new perspective on lived experiences of time and the ethics of being. She radically reconceptualises notions of utopia, arguing for a recognition of transgender actualisation in the here and now through a timely analysis of how individuals might claim space within and against essentialist social and legal structures. Drawing extensively on Deleuzian philosophy and empirical insights from trans video diaries, Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias offers an important contribution to contemporary debates around queer temporality, gender binarism, legislative recognition, public toilets and Othered bodies. Ruth Pearce, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Caterina Nirta addresses one of the central political questions of the present - transsexual bodies and the various forces and intensities which compose them, their capacities to invent new modes of subjectivity and new kinds of sexual and gender practices. In asking how it is possible to understand corporeal becomings beyond identity politics and beyond gender binaries, this book proposes a provocative transgender utopianism of the present. Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University, USA This book provides what the author describes as 'an ethical utopianism,' which it thinks through in relation to the actuality and actualisation of gendered and somatic life by transgender people. Drawing on Deleuze, it offers a critique of gendered being/becoming which foregrounds immanence, or the materiality of the present, over transcendence, or a future that never arrives. Professor Alex Sharpe, School of Law, Keele University, UK Caterina Nirta potently re-establishes the need for utopia, based on well-analysed, crystal clear theory, and proposing a perfectly actualisable possibility of a new utopia where both singularity and multiplicity are equally honoured. The whole book is an effortless and at points poetic passage through disciplines, methodologies, theories, spaces, bodies, genders, and genres. It dwells a genuinely hybrid space, simultaneously rigorous, exciting, voyeuristic and caring. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory, author of Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere Caterina Nirta provides a provocative new perspective on lived experiences of time and the ethics of being. She radically reconceptualises notions of utopia, arguing for a recognition of transgender actualisation in the here and now through a timely analysis of how individuals might claim space within and against essentialist social and legal structures. Drawing extensively on Deleuzian philosophy and empirical insights from trans video diaries, Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias offers an important contribution to contemporary debates around queer temporality, gender binarism, legislative recognition, public toilets and Othered bodies. Ruth Pearce, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Author Information
Caterina Nirta is senior lecturer in social sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK
