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Book SynopsisApplies Deleuze''s philosophical ideas, such as the body-machine and becoming, to sex. These 12 new essays develop a fresh philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practice. The contributors pursue the restricting as well as the liberating force of sex in relation to a spread of themes and subjects including the limits of the human, bacteria, death, disability and animality.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction-What is Sex: An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Frida Beckman; 1. Alien Sex: Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's Polysexuality, Ronald Bogue; 2. Heterotica: The 1000 Tiny Sexes of Anais Nin, Anna Powell; 3. Haemosexuality, Gretchen Riordan; 4. Disability, Deleuze, and Sex, Daniel Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom; 5. Tongue and Trigger: Deleuze's Erotics of the Uncanny (Images and Statement), Cara Judea Alhadeff; 6. (Hetero)sexing the child: Hans, Alice and the repressive hypothesis Catherine Driscoll, Carina Garland and Anna Hickey-Moody; 7. The 'Non-Human Sex' in Sexuality: 'What are Your Special Desiring-Machines, Gregg Lambert; 8. Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant's Copernican Revolution, Jeffrey A. Bell; 9. A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze, and the Sexing of Angels, Charlie Blake; 10. Encounters of Ecstasy, Patricia MacCormack; 11. Beyond Sexuality: of Love, Failure and Revolutions, Aislinn O'Donnell; Notes on the Contributors; Index.
