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ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES Jeudi 10 Avril 2008 - SALLE 4 - 19h |
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Nick REES ROBERTS |
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Maître de
conférence en cinéma au département d'études françaises a l'Université de
Bristol en Grande Bretagne. Auteur de French Queer Cinema (Edinburgh
University Press, 2008) et d'articles sur le cinéma gay/queer.
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Sero Theory: No Future? |
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Didier Lestrade?s polemic The End (2004) gives an apocalyptic vision of contemporary, metropolitan gay male subculture, in which drug-fuelled, unsafe sex practices have been life-styled as ?barebacking?. Christophe Honoré?s vision of queer masochism in Ma Mère (2004) binds extreme sexuality to the so-called ?death drive?, making it symptomatic of the broader negative turn in queer culture that has the spectre of AIDS hovering in the background. Within recent Anglo-American critical theory, Lee Edelman?s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) is perhaps the emblematic text of this turn. Published the same year as Honoré?s Ma Mère and Lestrade?s The End, Edelman?s urge to embrace queer negativity coincides historically (if perhaps not intentionally) with the AIDS revisionism incorporated within the bareback ideology. In this paper, I trace the history of a specific ?sero-theory? (AIDS within queer theoretical production through the writings of Leo Bersani and Tim Dean), and then compare the spectre of AIDS in Edelman?s No Future with examples drawn from contemporary French cinema, notably cases of ?not-about-AIDS? representation, such as François Ozon?s Le Temps qui reste (2005).
Bibliographie :
Leo Bersani,
Homos, Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA (1995)
http://books.google.fr/books?id=ekqoGPUy-B0C&dq=no+future+lee+edelman&pg=PP1&ots=N6okY6h0gR&sig=j0zikbRV
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