Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture by Gonsalez, Marcos

Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.Revolting Indolence makes a case...
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Author: Marcos Gonsalez
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Language: English
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Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture by Gonsalez, Marcos

Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture

¥12,389

Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture

¥12,389
Author: Marcos Gonsalez
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.

Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices--revolts that in turn are treated as revolting.

Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In Paris Is Burning, RuPaul's Drag Race, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; and second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, Revolting Indolence asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down.



Author: Marcos Gonsalez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781477330517

About the Author

Marcos Gonsalez is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. He is the author of Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land.


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