Queer Aesthetics Essay

watch Required Film:”Mosquita y Mari” required 3 readings: 1. Foucault….
2. Sullivan….
3. Perez…..
and 2 additional readings in support of your argument.

ENGL122N: Queer Aesthetics Notes: Michel Foucault: Abnormal ([1974-1975] 2003), with emphasis on Chapter 11

Even though “queer identity” is now routinely visible (and audible), as we saw in relation to any number of contemporary digital video works (The Internet’s music video “Cocaine,” or Perfume Genius’ “Hood” or dating shows like MTV’s Are you the One?), still the expression or depiction of sexual identity routinely incites questions, charges, allegations, anger, or concern in relation to “norms”: what is normal behavior, and how it should appear, and how it should be distributed, and what it can and can, should or should not, communicate. Queer identity “goes viral”, then, even as “queer actions” are still seen as “contagious” for legal or medical reasons. How does “normal” come to have legal and medical standards attached to it? If gender and sex difference and variegation are still not even clearly understood, how is it that some kinds of gender or sex variation are considered normal and others not? How do we even understand what is abnormal and what is normal sexually? How do we say that an individual is abnormal, as opposed to an event, an act, or a statement? Can an identity be abnormal, and if so, when did it become possible to diagnose personal identity as either normal or abnormal?

You should give at least one detailed example(s) of queer aesthetic expression(question according to this film may about “lesbian€ï¼‰ in your analysis, and use these 3 readings and 2 additional readings in support of your argument about your example.

some summary of foucult:https://theoryplay.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/michel-foucault-abnormal-chapter-11/

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