Atmospheres of Violence
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Atmospheres of Violence

Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

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eBook - PDF

Atmospheres of Violence

Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

About this book

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.

Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781478021520
Print ISBN
9781478014218
9781478013303
Subtopic
LGBT Studies
CHAPTER 
1
NEAR 
LIFE
OVERKILL 
AND 
ONTOLOGICAL 
CAPTURE
A 
feeling 
of 
inferiority? 
No, 
a 
feeling 
of 
nonexistence.
— 
Frantz 
Fanon
What 
if 
it 
feels 
good 
to 
kill 
or 
mutilate 
homos?
— 
Anonymous
“
Y
our 
whole 
life 
you 
think 
you’re 
a 
het-
erosexual. 
Then 
you 
get 
pleasure 
from 
a 
homosexual. 
It 
disgusted 
me,”
1
Jose 
Merel, 
one 
of 
Gwen 
Araujo’s 
murderers, 
proclaimed 
during 
his 
trial. 
While 
at 
a 
party, 
Araujo, 
a seventeen-year-old 
Latina 
trans 
woman, 
was 
confronted 
by 
Merel 
and 
three 
other 
men, 
Michael 
Magidson, 
Jason 
Cazares, 
and 
Jaron 
Na-
bors, 
at 
least 
two 
of 
whom 
she 
had 
previously 
had 
consensual 
sex 
with. 
The 
aack 
began 
when 
Merel’s 
older 
brother’s 
girlfriend, 
Nicole 
Brown, 
sexually 
assaulted 
Araujo 
by 
grabbing 
her 
with 
transphobic 
elation. 
Brown’s 
violent 
as-
sessment 
of 
Araujo’s 
body 
publicly 
unsheltered 
the 
assumed 
heterosexuality 
of 
the 
two 
that 
had 
maintained 
a 
sexual 
relationship 
with 
her. 
Magidson 
then 
pushed 
Araujo 
to 
the 
ground 
and 
forcibly 
stripped 
her, 
in 
conrmation 
of 
his 
sustained 
ability 
to 
overpower 
Araujo 
— 
the 
reclamation 
of 
his 
cis 
heterosexu-
ality. 
While 
a 
heterosexual 
man 
having 
sex 
with 
a 
trans 
woman 
does 
not 
make 
him 
“homosexual,” 
Merel’s 
reaction 
highlights 
the 
bind 
between 
forced 
gen-
der 
and 
heteronormativity 
and 
the 
matrix 
of 
constitutive 
misrecognition 
that 

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Reading with Care
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: River of Sorrow
  6. 1. Near Life: Overkill and Ontological Capture
  7. 2. Necrocapital: Blood’s General Strike
  8. 3. Clocked: Surveillance, Opacity, and the Image of Force
  9. 4. Death Drop: Becoming the Universe at the End of the World
  10. Coda: Becoming Ungovernable
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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