Biopolitics and Queer: The Aids CrisisImmunity and Beyond

Biopolitics and Queer: Aids CrisisImmunity and Beyond Book Description The "AIDS crisis" dating back to the 1980s does not only correspond to a devastating tragedy caused by this malignant disease, the cure of which was not yet possible at that time. It opens up to a series of structural determinations such as sexuality, biomedical regime, morality, international biopolitics, production of subjectivity, and political economy. It haunts the collective production of reality through power relations and capital flows. They connect, connect, bifurcate, break apart, come together and disperse in the form of countless bridges. Perhaps the phenomenon of "immunity" lies at the center of all this relational and viral activity. The historical pathways of HIV/AIDS shed light on the phenomenon in question combine with hegemonic as well as emancipatory and intersectional horizons. In this way, it allows a new accounting of contemporaneity through the "ontology of currentness". While Özen B. Demir addresses the HIV/AIDS problem with a series of connotations that inevitably lead to kinship, he also critically examines the extensive literature on the subject that has accumulated in the Western world over this long period of time. While embarking on a satisfying intellectual journey on this subject, which has been overlooked and almost never given its due in Turkish theoretical literature, it does not lose touch with the clinical field. By focusing on the biopolitical projections of the "crisis", it tries to reach a synthesis that extends to the universe of queer meaning and thought. While visiting the literary-philosophical haunts of countless names, he strives to move forward in the range of libertarian radical politics without losing his way. Meanwhile, by concretizing the fault lines in scientific and medical theory, it does not skimp on its epistemological and political reserves regarding the field. Thus, a historical moment that the author will mark as “the dawn of queer on the horizon of biopolitics” becomes visible. With this, a bow is provided to those who lost their lives due to HIV/AIDS-related causes and their relatives, as well as to the activist and collective memory. (From the Promotional Bulletin)