Queer Failures of History: Stupidity and Temporal Dissidence in The Lastmaker.

An essay is presented on Goat Island's "Lastmaker." It attempts to take up historian and critic Claire Bishop's two questions, to pick up the epithets of contemporary failure and theatricality and play them anew as interrelated forms of queer cunning. The author cites that the work urges them to rec...

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Publicado en:Parallax Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 5 - 24
Autor principal: Blocker, Jane
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2013
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Sumario:An essay is presented on Goat Island's "Lastmaker." It attempts to take up historian and critic Claire Bishop's two questions, to pick up the epithets of contemporary failure and theatricality and play them anew as interrelated forms of queer cunning. The author cites that the work urges them to recognize the stupidity of the contemporary as a temporal category.