Queering the Protest’s Temporalities

This essay reviews a set of contemporary experiences of sex-political organization in the history of the Argentinian antagonistic imagination. It sketches an experimental, theoretical diagram of the power of queer negativity as it has been mobilized by several strategies of public space occupation. Addressing the interference and discontinuity of political time in the wake of new experiences of strike allows one to identify other forms of critical approaches to the streets’ heteronormative control systems. It also allows one to trace how new agencies of common organization can be activated for destabilizing the projective direction of emancipatory Left utopias, creating space for new vital protests.

Rethinking and Queering Relationships in the Age of Same-sex Marriage: Multiplicities, Intensities, and New Potentialities

<p>This essay presents a theoretical discussion, analysis, and formulation to reconfigure new meanings, potentialities, and multiplicities of homosexual relationship/s. After a brief discussion on the rapid popularisation of marriage equality as the primary goal of queer movements, an overview of queer critique of marriage is provided. Attention given to the notion of homonormativity and the sharp criticism from queer negativity/queer anti-social. For these critiques, subjects are encouraged to occupy the abject position, which I argue, only further depoliticise queer politics. After a critical overview of this political stance, I offer Foucault and Deleuze accounts to explore multiple forms of relationships beyond marital institution, focusing on the ways in which relationships are to be understood as in terms of potentialities, intensities, and emergent forms and functions beyond the existing language capacities and formalised forms. This essay should, however, not situated as masterly or prescriptive, but rather a modest effort to spur more critical concerns,<br />discussions, and debates among queer Indonesians.</p>

“They Had No Rest from This Torment”: Encountering the Apocalypse of Peter

Many have been left behind by the apparent push into a brighter future of growing civil and religious acceptance for LGBTQ people. Taking note of the rhetoric of recent accounts of the progress for LGBTQ rights in the United States, this essay stages an encounter with a text that documents an early Christian attempt to imagine a better future, The Apocalypse of Peter, through the lens of queer negativity and queer historiography. This reading raises questions not only for the contemporary narrative of progress for LGBTQ people, but also for readers and historians who desire to redeem the meaning of problematic texts in the archives of the history of Christianity or reject them outright. Ultimately, efforts to redeem or reject such artifacts in the name of a better, more inclusive future are in danger—perhaps unavoidably—of reifying the relational dynamics of exclusion that have characterized the marginalization of those marked as queer. The Apocalypse of Peter is haunting evidence of the violence with which a community’s vision of the future can be enacted on those who are made to represent the cause of its un-ending deferral.