Abstract
The interview discusses the stakes in current debates regarding critique and addresses the challenges and the impasses that characterise our political present. The interview also explores questions concerning queer method, critical reading practices and the desires and political projects that have motivated feminist academic work.
Highlights
The interview discusses the stakes in current debates regarding critique and addresses the challenges and the impasses that characterise our political present
Robyn: It’s not always easy to separate the conversation about critique in gender studies and queer theory from the larger academic conversation in which the ‘critique of critique’ currently circulates
Sedgwick was writing against the paranoia that AIDS had unleashed in order to make space for work that could nurture and repair broken worlds. While she thought that the suspicious mode engendered highly predictable criticism, she was not out to defend the literary object nor did she think that critique was exhausted or self-defeating
Summary
The interview discusses the stakes in current debates regarding critique and addresses the challenges and the impasses that characterise our political present. Salla: How do you see and understand the current discussions on critique within the field of gender studies and queer theory?
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