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• W1594235280 abstract "DAVID VILASECA, Queer Events. Post-deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s to 1990s. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. 242 pp. ISBN 978-184631-467-4.David Vilaseca's posthumously published book, Queer Events. Post-deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960s to 1990s, revisits this author's interest in the discursive representation of identity in literature, already explored in two previous monographs but extended on this occasion to a wider corpus of authors, genres and media. Indeed, this book provides such an eclectic take on queer subjectivities that the reader is both generically and theoretically challenged at the very outset of the argument. Not only does Vilaseca concentrate his analysis on a handful of writers and filmmakers but he also brings a highly diverse (and complex) cluster of theoretical perspectives to support his readings. Among the former, the argument develops from gay autobiography to gay activism, stopping along the way to analyse an understudied school of Catalan filmmakers whose aesthetic avant-gardism widens 'queer' beyond the 'homosexually identified, sense of the term' (8). It is Vilaseca's theoretical sophistication, however, that presents to the reader a far superior challenge. The book draws its title from Alain Badiou's philosophy of the event, taken here as 'a founding gesture, a truly inaugural break with the status quo which retroactively creates its own conditions of possibility, undermining a given socio-symbolic field from the standpoint of what the philosopher calls its central void' (4-5). From this philosophical premise, Vilaseca looks back at some texts produced during the Spanish pre-transitional and transitional movement to democracy, stretching it from the 1960s well into the 1990s. These texts constitute 'a fundamental break [...] vis-a-vis the socio-historical situation from which they emerged, advancing a notion of the queer subject which can claim to be both radically anti-humanist and [...] unabashedly universal' (vii-viii). In Vilaseca's analysis, these anti-human and universal queer subjects are understood to be 'postdeconstructive', a diacritical mark of self that pushes the theoretical ground of this study much further into the crossroads of contemporary European philosophy (Deleuze and Agamben), Marxist and psychoanalytic cultural criticism (Jameson and Zizek), and the antisocial brand of queer studies (Bersani and Edelman).Following Badiou's four fundamental domains of radical change brought about by an event - politics, love, art and science - Vilaseca analyses two autobiographical trilogies: that of a lesser known author, the Balearic ex-Carmelite priest Antonio Roig, and that of the bestselling writer Terenci Moix; the cinematic 1960s aesthetic phenomenon of the Escola de Barcelona; and, finally, the controversial work of Alberto Cardin, an openly gay Catalan academic and writer. Framed by a preface, an introduction and a conclusion, Vilaseca develops his argument in five chapters so these authors and filmmakers are made to correspond respectively with the Badiouian procedures of politics/revolution, love/passion, art/creation and science/invention (4-5). In chapters 1 and 2, Vilaseca argues against the grain that Roig's autobiography constitutes 'a playful analysis and exorcism of the overwhelming forces of heterosexualization' (22), and that 'Roig's [. …" @default.
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