Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism

by Madhavi Menon

Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism--not one that insists we are all different but one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669592X
• ISBN13: 9780816695928
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"