Queer Literature Bot

Tweeting extracts from queer literature and theory, from across the world.

[Be_anyone @Be_disembodied]

Queer is intense and poetic it makes everyone uncomfortable

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@stalecooper Maybe Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

I found the answer. It’s upstairs.

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But isn’t desire always the same whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent?—This in’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

Barthes
A Lover’s Discourse

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I don’t yet know that I possess/ a body built for love.

– @RichieHof, “Idyll”

[ヒューゴ @klarnic_debt]

Duke UP’s most diabolical work yet

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The text is a fetish object, and this fetish desires me.

—Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text

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@vjoshuaadams The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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"To "be" queer, after all, is not to be, except as a catachresis of the Swiftian "Thing which is not". Queerness is the limit of ontology, the exclusion containing the negativity—the no, the not—that generates being: the rupture, itself libidinally charged..."

— Lee Edelman

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@lacancircle Thank you so much!

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Can someone get me a scanned copy of Leo Bersani's The Freudian Body?

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To want sex with another man is not exactly a credential for political radicalism.

—Leo Bersani, Is the Rectum a Grave?

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Compassion can be a touchy subject, touching as does, on what touches the heart by seeming to put us in touch with something other than ourselves, while leaving us open, in the process, to being read as ab easy touch.

—Lee Edelman, No Future

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@krantinari The queers say this too.

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No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow
For the last time
With candleight.
Face love-lit
Gifts underfoot.

—James Merrill, "Christmas Tree"

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Fuck the social order and the figural children paraded before us as its terroristic emblem... fuck Laws both with capital 'l's and with small; fuck the whole network of symbolic relations and the future that serves as its prop.

-Lee Edelman, No Future

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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

—Alan Hollinghurst, "The Line of Beauty"