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https://www.contretemps.eu/marxisme-et-theorie-queer-divergences-et-convergences-entretien-avec-kevin-floyd/
http://revueperiode.net/author/kevin-floyd/
https://fr.1lib.fr/book/898610/0510d8
"One evening in December 1996, Judith Butler delivered a plenary presentation that would appear the following year as an essay called “Merely
Cultural.”1 In this essay, Butler posits a certain conservative Marxist reinforcement of schisms within the Left: a representation of “new social
movements” as “merely” cultural, a reactionary dismissal of these movements as insufficiently engaged with questions of material production.
The plenary itself quickly took on a certain notoriety, for understandable
reasons: it was delivered at a conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, sponsored by the journal Rethinking Marxism—to an audience, that is, about
which we can reasonably assume some significant level of interest in Marxism, and some other significant level of allegiance to it. The highly charged
character of the presentation was certainly in part a product of the skeptical
response of many Marxist intellectuals to efforts to “rethink” the tradition
to which they are committed, a skepticism vocalized even—or especially—
at the conferences Rethinking Marxism periodically sponsors. Although I
attended the conference, I missed Butler’s presentation. Others who were
there are likely to remember the snowstorm that hit western Massachusetts that evening. I was not the only one who found it impossible to avoid
missing the plenary, after dinner in Northampton and given the time it
would take to negotiate the roads leading back to Amherst. Secondhand
accounts of Butler’s presentation and the audience’s response did not keep
me, in the following weeks and months, from wondering now and then
what kind of storm I would have experienced in that room, and how it
would have compared to the one outside." (p.1)
-Kevin Floyd, The Reification of Desire. Toward a Queer Marxism, Minneapolis / London, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 270 pages.
http://revueperiode.net/author/kevin-floyd/
https://fr.1lib.fr/book/898610/0510d8
"One evening in December 1996, Judith Butler delivered a plenary presentation that would appear the following year as an essay called “Merely
Cultural.”1 In this essay, Butler posits a certain conservative Marxist reinforcement of schisms within the Left: a representation of “new social
movements” as “merely” cultural, a reactionary dismissal of these movements as insufficiently engaged with questions of material production.
The plenary itself quickly took on a certain notoriety, for understandable
reasons: it was delivered at a conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, sponsored by the journal Rethinking Marxism—to an audience, that is, about
which we can reasonably assume some significant level of interest in Marxism, and some other significant level of allegiance to it. The highly charged
character of the presentation was certainly in part a product of the skeptical
response of many Marxist intellectuals to efforts to “rethink” the tradition
to which they are committed, a skepticism vocalized even—or especially—
at the conferences Rethinking Marxism periodically sponsors. Although I
attended the conference, I missed Butler’s presentation. Others who were
there are likely to remember the snowstorm that hit western Massachusetts that evening. I was not the only one who found it impossible to avoid
missing the plenary, after dinner in Northampton and given the time it
would take to negotiate the roads leading back to Amherst. Secondhand
accounts of Butler’s presentation and the audience’s response did not keep
me, in the following weeks and months, from wondering now and then
what kind of storm I would have experienced in that room, and how it
would have compared to the one outside." (p.1)
-Kevin Floyd, The Reification of Desire. Toward a Queer Marxism, Minneapolis / London, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 270 pages.
