Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture 14: Intimate Atmospheres
28 Nov 2016
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Gay men should embrace the stigma that they spread aids: embrace the non reproductive possibilities of gay sex, biforcation of life and death. Intertwined: complicate queer notion that there is no future, only death because of aids, reproductive figures include the mosquito and the settler, explores relations between reproduction and extinction through a specific environmental crisis. Fear of mosquito-borne diseases in a warming atmosphere: atmosphere signals the interspecies intimacy structured by geophysical forces of the earth. Intensify contradictions between precarity and freedom: decentralize the human. Look at the atmosphere as deconstructing intimacies: minerals. Minerals produce the gasses that warm the temperature. Exploitation of particular bodies to work for other bodies (capitalism: settlers. Way our discourse is shaped is productive for the settlers. Give us the way we understand the mosquito. A parasite that invades all these places. Mosquitos come from rise in temperatures, which comes from burning minerals. Mosquitos only become a problem once they start sucking human blood.
