https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerTheory/comments/1hqpwow/queer_theory_and_walter_benjamin/
created by loselyconscious on 31/12/2024 at 22:44 UTC
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Today, I was reading Jose Munoz's *Cruising Utopia.* I was struck when he said, "I have resisted Foucault and Benjamin because their thought has been well mined in the field of queer critique, so much so that these two thinkers' paradigms now feel almost tailor-made for queer studies." I am fairly well-read in Benjamin but have not encountered much of his reception in Queer Theory, and am really struck by the suggestion he is "tailor-made for queer studies."
Does anyone know much about the reception Benjamin in queer studies or have readings to recommend.
Comment by Starfleet_Stowaway at 01/01/2025 at 18:39 UTC
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Benjamin comes up a few times in Halberstam's *Queer Art of Failure*. The book's intro leans on Benjamin's anti-orthodoxy to articulate the deviant character of queer theory.