Jack Halberstam on Wildness, Illegibility and the Commercialization of Desire
Jack Halberstam on Wildness, Illegibility and the Commercialization of Desire The gender and sexuality theorist speaks to Sean Burns about his book, ‘Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire,’ and why gay men are a fast lane for capitalism Jack Halberstam’s new book, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020), traces the idea of ‘wildness’ – an uninhibited way of being in the body untethered by categorization – through the twentieth century, proposing an alternative history of sexuality. It draws on a collection of texts, practices and cultural imaginaries, inclu...
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