The Productive Power of Ambiguity: Rethinking Homosexuality through the Virtual and Developmental Systems Theory

Hypatia 20 (1):21-53 (2005)
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This paper juxtaposes Deleuze's notion of the virtual alongside Oyama's notion of a developmental system in order to explore the promises and perils of thinking bodily identity as indeterminate at a time when new technologies render bodily ambiguity increasingly productive of both economic profit and power relations.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00372.x

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A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia.Gilles Deleuze - 1987 - London: Athlone Press. Edited by Félix Guattari.
We have never been modern.Bruno Latour - 1993 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.Elizabeth Grosz - 1994 - St. Leonards, NSW: Indiana University Press.

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