By Tom Roach
Borrowing its name from a 1981 interview of Michel Foucault, Friendship as a fashion of Life develops the philosopher's past due paintings on friendship right into a novel critique of latest GLBT political procedure. Tom Roach brings to lifestyles Foucault's scant yet suggestive writings on friendship (some translated the following for the 1st time), emphasizing their moral implications and advancing a brand new and politically achievable concept--friendship as shared estrangement. In exploring the opportunity of this version for realizing not just social routine akin to ACT UP and the AIDS blood brother method, however the literary and inventive paintings of Hervé Guibert and David Wojnarowicz in addition, Roach seeks to reclaim a politics of friendship for queer activism. the 1st e-book dedicated completely to Foucault's paintings at the topic, it reassesses Foucaultian queer conception in gentle of the hot ebook of the philosopher's ultimate seminars on the Collège de France. Its provocative thesis returns Foucault's notion of biopower to its domestic in sexuality experiences and locations queer thought entrance and middle in present biopolitical debates.
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